• Project Management
• Cost Management and Control
• Dispute Services and Claims
• Land Surveying
• Value Engineering and Management
• Life Cycle Costing
• Cost Estimating
• Valuations
• Enfranchisements
• Cost Auditing
• LVT Representations

 We have performance measures and benchmarking in place. This will allow us to grow and change with our clients in meeting their need and expectations.

Project Management

We provide a total project management service for building, civil engineering, environmental engineering, process and other construction projects. Our service is customer-focused and efficient; from agreeing a clear and comprehensive brief with accurately defined objectives, to managing the efforts of the project team from start to finish.

We believe five key factors lie at the heart of successful project management: 

1. Time: project processes and economics are inextricably time-related.
2. Quality: achieving defined quality goals is a key measure of project success.
3. Flexibility: adapting to changing circumstances and keeping projects on track  whatever happens'.
4. Cost: budget-drift is the kiss of death for project success and client satisfaction.
5. Risk: identify, quantify, manage - and avoid where possible.

Our service is tailored to each client's needs and capabilities, and ranges from providing specialised assistance to in-house teams, to taking full responsibility for management of the entire process. Our reputation for quality rests on an extensive track record encompassing a wide variety of projects - from restorations of listed buildings through to developing major manufacturing and distribution centres, to building/redeveloping hotels, offices and major city centre developments.

Cost Management & Control

Effective monitoring of construction costs is just one part of the cost management equation. Costs must also be controlled and managed at every stage of the planning, design, and construction process.

All Shabeckint surveying services professional consultants are experienced cost managers who routinely enable clients to save money far in excess of our fees, while ensuring timely and successful project completion. Several Shabeckint surveying services consultants have acquired years of in-depth experience with substantial contracting organizations, expertise that confers a powerful advantage at the negotiating table. Competencies include:

• A systematic, proactive approach to establishing and managing budgets
• Regular review meetings to monitor all topics that may have cost implications
• Management of approved and pending changes
• Cost and schedule reporting systems and payment mechanisms that ensure that contractors are fairly compensated
• Extensive experience with bid evaluation and negotiation, change order mitigation, payment application certification, and performance of construction auditing

Dispute Services

Ever-growing pressures in the development process steadily increase the necessity - and difficulty - of maintaining good relationships throughout the supply chain. Our team of experienced senior professionals can help resolve difficulties and keep participants on board and projects on course.

We offer specialist technical knowledge in all key disciplines; extensive hands-on technical and legal experience; a rich database of relevant records; and specialist software for exploring scenarios cost effectively. We can act in:

• Dispute Avoidance
  With contract risk strategies to avoid disputes, and technical and commercial dispute avoidance advice in planning procurement strategies and drafting contracts and agreements.
• Dispute Support
  Supporting clients in defusing or dealing with potential or actual disputes, and their legal team if required in the event of conflict.
• Expert Witness
  In fields concerned with professional negligence (cost management, project management and building surveying), programming and quantum claims, for preliminary appraisal, early settlement advice, and help with expert reports and evidence.
• Adjudication & Expert Determinations
  Shabeckint surveying services individuals or teams can adjudicate or offer expert determinations at any stage of a dispute where the parties involved wish to avoid litigation or arbitration.

Land Surveying

Land Surveying Services incorporate a wide variety of professional services provided from this team of experienced surveyors. All works are carried out to the highest standard using state of the art technology including global positioning system and geodetic automated/remote control total station and digital levelling equipment.
The following are examples of the services available:

• Greenfield and brownfield site topographic surveys
• As built/detail surveys
• Monitoring of ground and civil engineering structures
•  Distortion surveys of buildings
• Ground modelling of existing sites using the latest software
• Provision of final computer generated topographic and as-built drawings and sections
• Volumetric surveys, landfill void space, stockpile volume
• Railway surveys, initial survey-engineering control for track installation

Value Engineering & Management

In today’s business environment the emphasis is on achieving maximum value without compromising quality. Balancing quality and value to deliver equivalent or improved performance at a lower cost is the typical outcome of successful value engineering and management.

Shabeckint surveying services value engineering specialists conduct in-depth research and work closely with your design team to develop cost-effective and practical design solutions with viable alternatives. Certified value specialists can manage an organized, creative, and systematic value engineering workshop for a particular project to ensure that you get the best return on your capital investment. Competencies include:

• Project review/analysis by individual elements, including materials and construction procedures, to uncover areas that are not cost-effective
• Value analysis techniques to identify and eliminate unnecessary expenses
• Identification of alternate designs and solutions
• Applied value engineering expertise to maintain building integrity while reducing costs
• Value engineering studies that identify opportunities to reduce construction costs by substituting alternate materials/equipment that perform the same function for less

Life Cycle Costing

As the cost of owning and operating buildings mounts, many large and institutional investors are recognizing the advantages of allocating greater portions of their investments upfront. Careful consideration of the impacts of planning, design, and construction on the overall life cycle of a building—and strategic investment of funds at the outset—can yield significant cost savings over the life of a building. Focused expertise in life cycle costing helps owners and investors maximize their return on every capital investment.

Cost Estimating

Dependable cost estimating is essential to the successful planning and design of any construction project. Accurate estimates provide vital feasibility and budgetary data from project inception through completion of the design and development process.

Experienced cost experts work with you to prevent over-expenditure or underutilization of your construction dollars by providing meaningful cost information throughout the design process. From conceptual through schematic, design, development, and construction documents, our professionals assess and manage costs before a project reaches the marketplace, minimizing the possibility for costly surprises. Competencies include:

• Careful quantification of all material, labour and equipment resources
• Scrupulous research
• Calculation of unit rates based on data gathered from recognized industry sources
• Cost estimating experience for more than $30 billion in projects worldwide
• Expert cost control services

Valuations & Building Survey
Is a survey which reports on a building condition and its future maintenance liability at agreed level of detail and depth.

Building survey and valuations are generally delivered in text format and are based on current market trends.

Enfranchisements
Preparation of report including comments, observation and photographic record of observations on block sale or transfers.

Cost Auditing
Expert Advice on all aspect of contract procurement, including documentation preparation and issue independent financial audit based on performance specification.

LVT Representations
Provision of Evidence in the Landlord Valuation Tribunal.