Predevelopment Services
We understand how critical pre-contract and frontend activities are to the ongoing success of any project. We offer professional support to meet your needs by working alongside your specialists and team by providing tailored support directly to your business.
How we can assist you
Viability Assessments
We can offer guidance or hands on assistance in the calculation of a development's viability. By working with your specialists or team, we can calculate land value, gross development value, profit and return on capital, no matter how big or small your site is.
What's more, we can utilise the tools your organisation already has in place, or we can tailor appraisal templates specific to your business, including abnormals assessments and cashflows.
We will work with your team to review various engineering solutions, delivery options and forecasting structures ensuring every avenue is exhausted.
Strategising Cost
Careful budget compilation and forecasting are absolutely key in assessing known costs, risk is visible and budgeted, and that expenditure profiles are carefully considered at the outset.
Asking the right questions at the beginning is imperative to ensure a strategy for managing cost and limiting blindsides as much as possible. This is part of our expertise, challenging all aspects of a project, using our extensive experience in budgeting developments from the ground up, providing your business with a transparent starting point.
Having the correct tools are essential. We can conduct a gap analysis of the tools your team currently uses and we can assist provide a tailored suite of documents.
Knowing Your Knowns & Unknowns
Risk takes on many guises and it takes a strong periphery and team work to have full sight of all risks. Ultimately, communication is key.
We work with teams to establish an understanding of project risks from contract obligations to budgetary inclusions/exclusions, scope of works (particularly where multiple trades are employed onsite). We can present this vital information in a clear and concise manner, giving your team the best chance of managing commercial risks throughout the project.
New Product? No Problem
Specifically relating to housing, we have experience in working with technical teams to bring new products to market.
We can carry out a review of your design proposal & specification, offering information on cost effective alternatives and procurement strategy.
Robust Assessment
Whether you have standardised documents or require these to be developed, we have extensive experience in procurement of subcontractors and suppliers, analysing tenders and presenting options.
If you have a site needing multiple trades, we can scope the works, conduct the procurement process and fully analyse tenders, giving you a robust document from which to choose the best fit for your project.