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Cost Engineering
To control specific types of engineering project costs effectively, you may need to involve a Cost Engineer throughout, from concept to completion. Our company offers 20 years experience in this area - from planning and design through to construction, maintenance and decommissioning. We are also able to provide:
- Over 20 years experience controlling costs in power station construction, and serving the nuclear generation and reprocessing industries.
- Expertise from the earliest feasibility stages, including value engineering, risk analysis and life-cycle costing.
- Expert advice on all aspects of contract procurement, including documentation preparation and issue.
- Independent financial audit, based on performance specification.
- Revolutionary techniques in term contract management and fully computerised plant maintenance programmes.
- Recent experience in new and challenging areas of nuclear decommissioning.
Key specialisations include:
- Energy - in sectors including fuel provision and reprocessing, generation, distribution, waste management and nuclear decommissioning.
- Utilities and Petrochemical - in sectors including water and sewage, petrochemical and gas, and refining.
- Manufacturing - with specific specialisations including paper and board, food and drink, pharmaceuticals and glass.
- Transport - covering premises, installations and assets such as cruise liners; in areas including aviation, rail, docks, harbours and shipping.
Cost Estimating
Dependable cost estimating is essential to the successful planning and design of any construction project. Accurate estimates provide vital feasibility and budgetary data from project inception through completion of the design and development process.
Experienced cost experts work with you to prevent over-expenditure or underutilization of your construction dollars by providing meaningful cost information throughout the design process. From conceptual through schematic, design, development, and construction documents, our professionals assess and manage costs before a project reaches the marketplace, minimizing the possibility for costly surprises. Competencies include:
- Careful quantification of all material, labor and equipment resources
- Scrupulous research
- Calculation of unit rates based on data gathered from recognized industry sources
- Cost estimating experience for more than $30 billion in projects worldwide
- Expert cost control services
Cost Management
An improved use of ICT and alignment with new industry working practices are among the factors moving cost management firmly up the construction industry agenda. We aim to add more value by supplementing the traditional core service with specialised skills and innovations.
Cost management lies at the heart of any integrated design process that delivers real value. Our methodology involves close co-operation with clients at every stage of the project, considers all procurement routes, offers fully transparent accountability throughout, and helps ensure the right decisions at the right time.
Our extensive experience helps us define clear aims and objectives at the outset; create clear and concise agendas to address them; and follow through with impeccable implementation. Effective supply chain management works from detailed, sector specific benchmark data to minimise waste throughout - from planning through to manufacture, to installation.
Cost Management & Control
Effective monitoring of construction costs is just one part of the cost management equation. Costs must also be controlled and managed at every stage of the planning, design, and construction process.
All Our company professional consultants are experienced cost managers who routinely enable clients to save mone Our company y far in excess of our fees, while ensuring timely and successful project completion. Several from Our company consultants have acquired years of in-depth experience with substantial contracting organizations, expertise that confers a powerful advantage at the negotiating table. Competencies include:
- A systematic, proactive approach to establishing and managing budgets
- Regular review meetings to monitor all topics that may have cost implications
- Management of approved and pending changes
- Cost and schedule reporting systems and payment mechanisms that ensure that contractors are fairly compensated
- Extensive experience with bid evaluation and negotiation, change order mitigation, payment application certification, and performance of construction auditing
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