Our cost plans give clients the financial clarity to make good decisions at every stage of a project's development. We start with order-of-cost estimates during feasibility, evolve into formal elemental cost plans through design development, and refine into a pre-tender estimate ready to benchmark returned bids against. Each cost plan is supported by a transparent basis of estimate covering rates, sources, benchmarks, inclusions, exclusions, and risk allowances, so there's no black box behind the number.

We build appropriate contingency and design development reserves into the plan and show how they reduce as the design matures, which gives clients, funders, and boards a defensible view of where the cost is heading. When the design pushes the budget, we don't just report the problem: we work with the design team to identify value engineering options, model the cost impact of design choices, and help the project team steer back to a workable number without compromising the brief.