Brickwise provides the advisory services that inform those decisions: testing viability, optimising value, forecasting cash and managing risk with rigour.
Value Engineering
Value engineering is frequently misunderstood as cost cutting. Executed properly it is a structured process for improving the ratio of function to cost — reducing expenditure without compromising performance, quality or objectives.
Brickwise facilitates value engineering that identifies genuine savings and evaluates each against its full implications.
Our value engineering services include
- Structured value engineering workshops
- Functional analysis of design elements
- Cost-significance and Pareto analysis
- Alternative specification and system appraisal
- Buildability and construction method review
- Life-cycle cost comparison of options
- Savings evaluation and risk assessment
- Implementation tracking and benefit realisation
Feasibility Studies
Before capital is committed, a scheme must be tested honestly. Optimistic early appraisal is a principal cause of projects that become unviable during delivery.
Brickwise prepares rigorous feasibility studies that establish realistic cost, test viability against objectives and identify the risks capable of undermining the business case.
Our feasibility services include
- Order of magnitude cost appraisal
- Development budget preparation
- Cost-benefit and viability analysis
- Site and option comparison studies
- Development appraisal modelling
- Sensitivity and scenario testing
- Risk identification and quantification
- Feasibility reporting and recommendation
Cash Flow Forecasting
Profitable projects fail through poor liquidity management. Understanding when expenditure falls and when income arrives is fundamental to financial stability.
Brickwise prepares detailed cash flow forecasts aligned to programme and contract, updated as delivery progresses.
Our cash flow services include
- S-curve cash flow modelling
- Programme-linked expenditure profiling
- Income and payment schedule forecasting
- Retention and release profiling
- Working capital requirement assessment
- Scenario modelling for programme change
- Actual versus forecast tracking
- Funding drawdown scheduling
Risk & Value Management
Risk on construction projects cannot be removed, but it can be identified, quantified, allocated and managed. Unmanaged risk simply becomes unbudgeted cost.
Brickwise provides structured risk and value management that quantifies exposure and establishes contingency on evidence rather than convention.
Our risk and value management services include
- Risk identification workshops and registers
- Qualitative and quantitative risk assessment
- Monte Carlo simulation and probabilistic costing
- Contingency determination and justification
- Risk allocation and contract strategy advice
- Mitigation planning and ownership assignment
- Integrated risk and value studies
- Ongoing risk monitoring and reporting
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