Quantity surveying is a specialist construction consultant discipline which will provide expert advice on construction costs, procurement and contracts. 

The aim of the QS is to maximise value within a construction project, helping to balance costs against quality and buildability, often offering options and alternative perspectives for construction methods and materials to designers and clients, based on the remit of maximizing value. 

The QS usually also manages awarded packages from the commercial perspective, valuing progress, variations and ensuring that costs remain under control as the project progresses. The Quantity surveyor is also the principal advisor to the client on forming and awarding construction contracts and as such may specialise in contractual advice regards claims made by contractors during the construction process.

TYPICAL PCM SERVICES

  •  Financial Feasibilit
  •  Life Cycle costing
  •  Cost planning and budget preparation
  •  Contractor pre-qualification & procurement
  •  Tender document preparation & Tender process
  •  Value Engineering & Value management
  •  Contract value negotiation
  •  Contract document preparation and award
  •  Post contract change control, variation management & IPC
  •  Cost reporting
  •  Final accounting and reconciliation
  •  Claim Management  

Project Construction Management is a specialist consulting service that represents the client, employer , developer or investors with a global overview of day-to-day management of a project.

The remit and scope of the PCM is to monitor progress and facilitate interaction and collaboration in the project team so as to reduce the risk of failure, maximise benefits and control cost. The PCM’s overview is usually overseeing all aspects of the construction project with the aspects of time, cost, quality , scope being the most important and with safety being an overriding factor considered universal throughout the process.

TYPICAL PCM SERVICES

•   Feasibility studies
•   Project Brief Formation & Management
•   Project Scheduling & Programming
•   Professional Team Selection & Appointment
•   Design Management
•   Change Management
•   Procurement & Tendering
•   Risk Management
•   Value Management
•   Quality Control / QAQC
•   Contract Administration
•   Single Point Project reporting

(sometimes referred to as CM) is a specialist consultant service usually tasked with the day-to-day duties of construction project progress and on-site activities. Often awarded as part of the PCM services site management may also be a separate service when clients have their own in house PCM team but prefer the site operations to be managed by others.

The site manager’s role is the supervision and management of all site-based staff, contractors and subcontractors employed by the company to ensure that the project is delivered within their contractual obligations.

Quality Construction, Communications, Timely Completion, Leadership, Lower Cost, Technical Expertise

HIQS is able to create bespoke solutions to your development activities by fulfilling roles such as Lead Consultant, Development manager or Employers agent. These roles are all similar and may combine or overlap with the project construction management role.

The advantages of these bespoke solutions can be that the client has a ‘single point contact’ and ‘global overview’ for all reporting and management duties. The Lead consultant can carry through the project from start to finish with the client being able to control the entire process through a single management entity.