Cost Management

Elvet Chartered Surveyors were appointed to act as HUSK’s quantity surveyor to deliver Villa Street, managing all of their cost control, including subcontractor appointments, material supplies, contract administration and estimating services.

Elvet Chartered Surveyors were appointed to act as commercial quantity surveyors for the construction of five new care home facilities in Rhondda Cynon Taf.

Elvet Chartered Surveyors were engaged to undertake an initial tender exercise to select an experienced contractor to complete extension works for Nicholsons Sealing Technology.

Derwentside Homes appointed Elvet Construction Consultants to conduct a review and detailed analysis of their schedule of rates for repairs and maintenance. The main aim was to establish whether costs were appropriate and offered value for money.

Elvet Chartered Surveyors were approached to prepare the tender documents to select a preferred contractor for works at St Anne’s Church of England Primary School and act as the Contract Administrator during the post contract stage.

Elvet Chartered Surveyors were engaged to formalise a procurement strategy to deliver repairs for Spennymoor Town Council’s commercial and community buildings.

A private developer wished to transorm an old Methodist Church within Sherburn Village to provide new housing. The scheme required the demolition of the former Church prior to the construction of new houses. The developers main requirement was to maximise the potential of the site within local planning rules, providing attractive modern housing, whilst adapting methods to reduce the overall construction programme.

Modernising 2,100 properties to meet the Government’s Decent Homes Standard. Elvet Consultants were seconded into the project delivery team to undertake the role of Employer’s Agent and cost control including management of the client’s Clerk of Works and Trainee Quantity Surveryor.

Elvet were employed as lead consultants to deliver renewable home heating solutions to Derwentside Homes off-gas properties at Glebeside, Satley. We acted as Quantity Surveyor and Contract Administrator on the project from inception to practical completion.