Don’t gamble with CPI and general cost guides for adequate insurance cover!
Relying solely on Consumer Price Index (CPI) changes to form the basis of your building insurance cover could leave you under insured and vulnerable. Why? Building costs fluctuate independently of CPI, making this approach unreliable. Also using broad cost guides doesn’t accurately capture the unique factors affecting construction costs and asset value, such as asset type and location.
As experienced Quantity Surveyors, Napier & Blakeley stands apart as trusted industry providers. We have appropriate Professional Indemnity insurance to support the provision of advice around Reinstatement Cost Assessments and with nearly four decades of leadership, we offer: Continue reading
After 38 years, we have crossed the ditch and are now open for business in Auckland & Christchurch providing quantity surveying, tax depreciation and technical due diligence services to property developers, financiers and investors.
This geographic expansion will complement our other teams in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide, confirming our ability to provide our services throughout Australasia.
Napier & Blakeley will be led by local Director, Daniel Small. Daniel was an architectural builder before retraining as a quantity surveyor. He worked in New Zealand as a quantity surveyor before spending the past few years working in the Melbourne Napier & Blakeley team with Directors Craig Smith and John Atkins. During this time, Daniel gained experience in a wide range of sectors including residential, commercial, retail, childcare & land subdivisions.
Daniel has been very active in research into upfront embodied carbon and has played an active role in developing our service offering in this space.
Daniel’s areas of expertise include:
? Cost Planning
? QS Financier Reporting
? Embodied Carbon Measurement
? Pre-tender Estimates
? Value Management
? Schedules/Bills of Quantities
? Tendering
? Tender Reviews
? Procurement
? Engineer to the Contract/Superintendent
? Reinstatement Cost Assessments
Please contact Daniel for any Quantity Surveying advice in New Zealand