Early Cost Estimates - More than just numbers
September 9, 2025
Early Cost Estimates - behind the numbers
There's more to making a cost estimate than just numbers. The bottom line is of course the most important number, telling you how much you need to borrow is the first and most obvious bit of information a Cost Estimate is telling us and that's fine. Some people are happ...
Estimating costs of building during design
March 22, 2025
Engaging a Q.S. as a Design partner
Traditionally, Quantity Surveyors and Estimator are not considered part of the design process as are other professional services like Architects and Engineers.My view from over 30 years experience as an Estimator is that a relatively small amount of money spent in looking at...
Renovation Cost Blowouts are Unnecessary
March 7, 2025
Renovation cost blowouts are unnecessary
There is probably not a week that goes by when I am not talking to someone about a renovation job that exceeded the expected budget, sometimes catastrophically and significantly.I have real-life examples where the cost has doubled or the full cost has been reached and the jo...
Creating Interest and Competition at Tender time
January 24, 2025
Schedule of Quantities and Tender.
Recently, i was reading an article on the advantages of using a Schedule of Quantities for tendering by another Quantity Surveyor and i can across a phrase that caught my attention. It said “providing a schedule of quantities to Tenderers will generate more interest”…M...
Residential Quantity Surveying
June 10, 2023
What got me thinking…
I was visiting the site of a new residential house build the other day and talking to the Builder he opined that “with people currently struggling to afford the amount they have to borrow to build nowadays, then they have the extra expense of a Quantity Surveyor on top of ...
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