- Prepare preliminary budgets to establish basic project costs and the set and agree budget with client. These will include all consultants’ costs, construction costs and other items.
- Propose most efficient and cost effective method to construction to ensure costs remain within the set budget.
- Constantly evaluate designs through the design development phase to ensure project manager fully understands cost implications.
- Prepare Bill of Quantities against build permission drawings to establish construction costs.
- Prepare detailed Bill of Quantities for tender, tender comparison and negotiations.
- Evaluate monthly payments claims from the contractor against actual work done on site to ensure no over payments are made.
- Evaluate and cost all variation requests from the contractor.
- Maintain up-to-date project accounts.
- Prepare final project accounts for client handover.