Cost management

Maximise value and minimise your risks by estimating, allocating, and controlling costs throughout the lifecycle of your project.

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Realising value for money for your project

Whether your project relates to built environment masterplanning, new developments, fit out and refurbishments, we bring unparalleled expertise and cost insight across all markets and sectors. Through intelligent budgeting, active value management and dynamic capital planning, we establish a strong base of commercial rigour. Using in-depth reporting, up-to-date market intelligence, the latest technology and controlled contract management we offer cost efficiency, enhanced control and reduced risk as standard.

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Pre-contract cost management

Bring methodical, analytical and collaborative approaches to development, maximise value generation, align spend with value, mitigate risk and bring certainty of outcome through our technology, processes and people.

Development monitoring

Bring certainty to your development(s) through cost and commercial monitoring, validating at every stage and identifying risk mitigatory strategies to realise successful outcomes.

Post-contract cost management

Keep close control on the costs of your project. Early identification of cost risk, unexpected change, cashflow and supply chain challenges are proactively forecast to keep your project on track.

Feasibility and viability studies

Establish robust construction budgets, with minimal information at the outset/inception of a project to bring assurance that optimises value, minimises risk and identifies delivery challenges.

Cost benchmarking​

Ensure accuracy, insight, certainty and understanding – whether setting budgets or challenging cost advice from others – through our holistic and granular benchmark data.​

Capital planning​

Establish a viable and accurate baseline budget aligned to validated benchmarks to provide a frame of reference to maximise efficiency of your property or portfolio spend programmes.

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Matthew Renshaw

Head of Project & Development Services, Southern & East Africa
+27 8 208 71538