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Development Services
Our Development Services Team offers consultancy in a number of key areas of real estate projects, from acquisition to business planning and development, both in the UK and in Central Europe. The service divides into two core areas:
Development Management
We advise both private and public sectors in every aspect of the development process. A decade managing high profile projects has given us particular expertise in:
- Site identification and management of the acquisition process.
- Due Diligence on site acquisition.
- Creation of business plans and bespoke development appraisals for property development.
- Acting as lender’s and employer’s representative on development projects.
- Management of the pre-construction development process.
Business Planning and Accommodation Strategies
By assessing the implications of their business plans, we help occupiers determine their short and long term accommodation needs. Undertaking this process has added business skills to our surveyors' property expertise, enabling them to challenge conventional thinking and devise better solutions.
Planning to meet occupiers’ needs can significantly affect property and occupation costs - in both private and public sectors. Benchmarking against similar organisations can offer valuable ammunition to clients looking to negotiate more advantageous terms.
Risk Analysis and Risk Management
Risk Analysis and Risk Management are essential elements of project and construction management. Risk Analysis can be seen as a useful lens through which one can view uncertainties and risks which exist in every project especially in the construction industry where design development is complicated and interfaces between parties involved sometimes long and tortuous.
Our company Risk Analysis and Management Services provides an independent service identifying and quantifying construction risk in terms of project costs and programmes. These are achieved through risk workshops and interviews (qualitative analysis) subsequently enhanced with computerised simulation models (quantitative analysis) and provide the basis for effective Contingency Planning (cost and time). Risk Management is the reduction of containment of risk and uncertainty to an acceptable level to control cost, time and quality on projects. This is achieved by using a structured model as a benchmark from which risks can be compared and managed throughout the project. The two main models are based upon the project cost plan and project programme to measure uncertainty and risk. This is achieved by using Our company experienced forward looking risk managers as facilitators striving to foster an organisational commitment in the project design team which is essential to discourage tunnel visioned attitudes.
Our company Risk Managers are practical experienced professional with extensive experience and expertise in the construction industry capable of communicating effectively with clients, other professionals and contracting organisations providing the necessary added value to successful construction project management.
Value Engineering
Our company uses a systematic and team approach to reviewing the proposed design to critically assess both costs and value of the construction scheme as well as form and function.
Dispute Services
Ever-growing pressures in the development process steadily increase the necessity - and difficulty - of maintaining good relationships throughout the supply chain. Our team of experienced senior professionals can help resolve difficulties and keep participants on board and projects on course.
We offer specialist technical knowledge in all key disciplines; extensive hands-on technical and legal experience; a rich database of relevant records; and specialist software for exploring scenarios cost effectively. We can act in:
Dispute Avoidance
With contract risk strategies to avoid disputes, and technical and commercial dispute avoidance advice in planning procurement strategies and drafting contracts and agreements.
Dispute Support
Supporting clients in defusing or dealing with potential or actual disputes, and their legal team if required in the event of conflict.
Expert Witness
In fields concerned with professional negligence (cost management, project management and building surveying), programming and quantum claims, for preliminary appraisal, early settlement advice, and help with expert reports and evidence.
Adjudication & Expert Determinations
Our company individuals or teams can adjudicate or offer expert determinations at any stage of a dispute where the parties involved wish to avoid litigation or arbitration.
Feasibility Studies
When it comes to major capital projects, there are no automatic answers. At the inception of any large-scale construction project, it’s essential to establish whether the elements of location, market conditions, financial, and design combine to produce a viable product that will meet a client’s needs.
This is where the feasibility study comes in. The feasibility study defines how the construction goal is to be accomplished, what risks are involved, and any special security, technology, or building considerations. Building on an in-depth knowledge of market conditions, we can develop feasibility studies that evaluate everything required for a project to function, providing the information necessary to make critical business and investment decisions. Competencies include:
- Comprehensive cost/revenue studies projected throughout the life of the project
- Examination of market trends, area-specific codes/regulations, impact assessments and mitigation costs, and implications of total market supply and demand
- Identification/evaluation of risks associated with developing/building on a site
- Residual land value analyses and residual construction costs for prospective projects
- Assistance in determining whether to advance or decline a development opportunity
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