Napier & Blakeley’s TALL “STOREYS” (continues)
Napier & Blakeley’s Queensland Quantity Surveying Team has been growing year on year, as has the size of the projects and scope of services we are providing to our clients.
Residential Apartment developments are back in favour, so we thought you might like to hear some of our “tall stories” regarding some landmark projects in QLD we’ve been involved in recently. These projects have many “storeys” of their own.
We’re sure you’ll agree that the designs are striking, but all the pretty pictures in the world won’t deliver a successful project unless the costs are controlled – that’s our job and through our proactive cost planning and cost management procedures, budgets will be met.
We’ll let the pictures below tell the story of the projects we’ve been advising on in this sector of the market.
Our Quantity Surveying team is able to provide the following services for your projects:
• Cost Planning, Cost Control & Value Management
• Client Representation
• Tax Depreciation
• Bills of Quantities
• Reporting to the project financier (we are accepted by all major lending institutions)
• Contract Administration
• Insurance Replacement Cost Assessments
• Capital expenditure forecasting for property owners including Owner’s Corporation
Do not hesitate to call us to discuss your project. We will cost manage your project successfully so you will have pictures to tell the story to the world. Continue reading
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We’ve all heard the saying “You can’t manage what you can’t measure”, but do we sometimes take this too literally?
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