Brickwise provides end-to-end cost consultancy — establishing realistic budgets, developing detailed estimates, controlling expenditure and reporting performance with the accuracy our clients need to make confident decisions.
Cost Consultancy
Brickwise acts as independent cost advisor across the project lifecycle, providing the commercial intelligence that allows clients to make informed decisions at every stage.
Our role begins before design and continues through to final account. We advise on affordability, test design proposals against budget, benchmark rates against comparable projects and provide the objective cost perspective that keeps a scheme financially viable.
Our cost consultancy services include
- Independent cost advice across all project stages
- Cost benchmarking against comparable developments
- Design option cost appraisals
- Affordability and viability testing
- Cost reporting to boards, funders and stakeholders
- Cost advice on design changes and scope development
- Independent review of third-party cost submissions
Cost Planning & Cost Estimation
Cost decisions taken early carry the greatest influence and the least available information. Effective cost planning bridges that gap — providing reliable figures when they are most needed and refining them as design develops.
Brickwise prepares cost plans and estimates at every level of design maturity, from order-of-magnitude appraisals through to fully detailed pre-tender estimates.
Our cost planning services include
- Order of magnitude and order of cost estimates
- Elemental cost planning through design stages
- Detailed pre-tender estimates
- Cost modelling for design options
- Rate build-up and first-principles pricing
- Inflation, escalation and contingency analysis
- Whole-life and operational cost assessment
- Cost plan reconciliation between stages
Budget Preparation & Cost Control
A budget delivers value only if it is actively managed. Brickwise establishes structured project budgets and operates the control systems that keep expenditure aligned to them.
We monitor commitment and expenditure continuously, forecast outturn honestly, and identify variances at the point where corrective action remains possible rather than after the fact.
Our budget and cost control services include
- Project budget development and structuring
- Cost breakdown structures and coding
- Commitment and expenditure tracking
- Variance analysis with root-cause commentary
- Change control procedures and registers
- Contingency and risk allowance management
- Anticipated final cost forecasting
- Regular cost reporting to project stakeholders
Project Cost Monitoring
For lenders, investors and asset owners, independent verification of project cost performance is essential to protecting an investment.
Brickwise provides objective cost monitoring, reporting on financial health, valuing works properly and flagging emerging risk before it materialises.
Our cost monitoring services include
- Independent monthly cost reporting
- Valuation of works executed
- Drawdown certification and verification
- Cost-to-complete assessment
- Contractor cost submission review
- Programme and cost correlation analysis
- Risk register maintenance and reporting
- Funder and investor reporting packs
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