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Practical commentary on cost management, quantity surveying, procurement and contract administration — written by our consultants for clients and industry professionals.
Cost Benchmarking Across the Middle East and Asia: What Transfers and What Does Not
Benchmark data is only as good as the adjustments applied to it. Moving a rate between markets without accounting for specification, procurement and logistics…
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NRM1 in Practice: Building a Cost Plan That Survives Design Development
NRM1 gives a cost plan a defensible structure, but the elemental breakdown is only half the job. What keeps a budget credible through design…
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Measuring Variations: Building a Change Account That Holds Up
Most variation disputes are not disagreements about entitlement. They are disagreements about quantity, caused by change being measured months after the work was covered…
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NRM2, POMI or CESMM4: Choosing the Right Method of Measurement
The method of measurement governs how a bill is structured, what is deemed included and how variations are valued. Choosing the wrong one creates…
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Choosing a Procurement Route: A Practical Decision Framework
Procurement route determines how cost, risk and programme are shared between the parties. It is one of the highest-value decisions on a project —…
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Seven Causes of Construction Cost Overrun — and How to Prevent Each
Cost overruns are rarely a surprise. They are a symptom of weak commercial control, and almost all of them are visible long before they…
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