Director:
Douglas Buchanan
BSc QS MRICS AAIQS
About Us
DBQS Consulting offer a wide range of services including:
- Quantity surveying
- Cost Analysis
- Cost Feasibility Studies
- Cost planning
- Bills of quantities
- Development Cost Management
- Post-Contract Cost Control
- Reconstruction Cost Estimation
- Project management
- Construction management
- Design management,
- Programming
- Technical due diligences
- Risk management
- Procurement strategies
DBQS Consulting expertise covers the entire lifecycle of constructed assets, from initial concept feasibility through planning, design, procurement to construction to completion and occupation of the finished project. DBQS Consulting expertise allows us to develop a comprehensive understanding of the project’s feasibility and quality.
DBQS Consulting assists you to refine project parameters to minimise risk, to seize opportunity to achieve your goals.
We provide expertise in the following market sectors:
- aged care facilities
- aged care residential
- high quality individual residences
- low and medium density housing
- multi-unit residential
- low, medium and high rise apartments
- commercial buildings and their fit out
- education buildings
- leisure and hotel properties
- infrastructure projects
- retail projects
DBQS Consulting can provide you with a full range of quantity serveying services that include:
Quantity Surveying
- Project Management (incl. construction management)
- Programming, Technical Due Diligences, and Risk Management
- Cost Analysis
- Cost feasibilty studies
- Cost Planning
- Bills of Quantities
- Development Cost Management
- Post-Contract Cost Control
- Reconstruction Cost Estimation
- Procurement Strategies
- Expert Witness Services
We'll work with you to ensure your construction projectis managed from beginning to end, offering experience based advice on:
Pre-Construction Services
- Preparation of Feasibility Studies
- Estimating to define project budgets
- Analysis of the effect of design changes on the project budget
- Cost planning to refine the budget as the design documents develop
- Project procurement advice
- Tender documentation and advice (contracts; specifications; bills of quantities)
- Preparation of Bills of Quantities to assist in the tender process
- Reviews of Builder’s tender submissions
During Construction
- Provision of cost control services during construction
- Assessment of the builder’s progress claims
- Assessment of variation and delay claims
- Regular monitoring reports recording progress, changing risk profile for funders and stakeholders.
- In addition to providing financiers with details of the current status of the project, the report provides
- important financial information on a cost to complete basis, to facilitate release of funds through monthly drawdowns.
Project Financier Services
- Initial report providing the financier with an overview of the project, commenting on both the construction and development costs in order to aid risk assessment. The initial report will include a review of scope of works, main and subcontracts, construction programme and its achievability, documentation, consultants details, development budget cashflows, status of authority approvals and permits, insurances.
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Drawdown Reports providing the financier with:
cost to complete assessment, independent certification,variation assessment, cashflow analysis, progress programme assessment, consent approval confirmation.
Post Construction
- Determination of the final project cost
- long term maintenance cost planning
- Preparation of tax depreciation reports for investors and property owners
- Expert Witness reports to assist in the settlement of building disputes
- Insurance replacement cost valuation
