our services.
Our “all round” complimentary services are designed to add value to every project we are involved with.
Development, particularly the construction stage, is one of the most significant risks for any Client and Cube firmly believe that by providing an efficient, reliable, quality service with robust documentation, the control of any project’s out-turn cost certainty can be achieved.
A pragmatic and flexible approach is essentially ingrained into our service offering, with scopes specifically tailored to meet client individual requirements. Our extensive services can be categorised into four main areas:
Effective cost management is essential to an integrated design process if maximum returns for investment are to be achieved on any project in today’s challenging environment.
At Cube, we have extensive experience in the provision of Employer’s Agent duties on Design and Build contracts.
Cube offers you many years of experience gained as due diligence Monitoring Surveyors in the property development sector acting for short term debt funders, investors, occupiers and other property stakeholders.
Development management helps clients turn ambitious goals into concrete plans, adding value to their property portfolio
Effective cost management is essential to an integrated design process if maximum returns for investment are to be achieved on any project in today’s challenging environment.
Our first and most important objective with all projects is to gain an appreciation and understanding of the proposed business case. It is imperative to establish our Clients’ aims and objectives from the outset, and work together with the other members of the designer team and all associated stakeholders to ensure that these are met as a minimum, in order to drive the best possible project value and outcome.
Successful cost management, in turn leads to delivering a scheme to budget and also requires the adoption of an optimum procurement strategy that is designed to balance the conflicting requirements of risk, certainty, speed, design and not least quality.
Cube achieves this by engaging effectively with the client, client advisors, project team members and the supply chain, applying rigorous change management techniques and a dedicated experienced Surveyor with relevant project experience to the project.
Our service offering includes but is not limited to the following:
- Feasibility and Site Acquisition Analysis
- Cost Estimating
- Cost Planning
- Risk Appraisal and Contingency Management
- Costs In Use and Whole Life Costing
- Value Engineering and Option studies
- Procurement Strategy Advice
- Tender Documentation Preparation
- Contract Documentation Preparation
- Cashflow Forecasting
- Cost Management, Change Control and Reporting
- Final Account Agreement
- Post Completion Data Analyses
- Assistance with Grant Funding Applications
At Cube, we have extensive experience in the provision of Employer’s Agent duties on Design and Build contracts.
The role encompasses the following key elements:
- Accountability for overall project delivery
- Promotion of team ethos and facilitation of team relationships
- Communication of objectives for the project
- Creation of a robust management model providing clear roles and responsibilities
- Assurance of commercial and programming control of the design and construction processes
- Implementation of a reporting regime enabling clients to make key decisions and to make the project team accountable for project performance
Employer’s Agent duties include:
Cube proactively contribute to a project, providing a commercially driven client focused service, mitigating risks and ensuring project delivery to satisfy the client’s aspirations.
The Employer’s Agent service typically includes:
- Establishment of a procurement route strategy
- Development of a project programme
- Assistance with assembly of the consultant team
- Preparation of Cost Estimates
- Prequalification, selection and procurement of contractors
- Preparation of a robust Employer’s Requirements document
- Refinement, execution and administration of the building contract
- Development of the risk register and mitigation strategy
- Progress and financial reporting
- Management of the payment process
- Arrange, chair and minute project meetings
- Change control management leading to final account agreement
- Manage the handover procedure
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Development management helps clients turn ambitious goals into concrete plans, adding value to their property portfolio
For many clients, stepping outside their core business into the world of property portfolio development and management can be challenging, but Cube offers a full development management service, assisting clients with the initial start-up processes and analysis of the financial viability of a scheme. We formulate robust and appropriate development strategies and manage the development process from the appointment of a professional team through to the planning and successful delivery of projects, ensuring you start right.
We’re increasingly called upon to apply our skills and experience earlier in the project cycle, working with developers who have the skills to create the opportunity but need support to make it happen. With our unique full life cycle of property services, clients know that Cube advice at this early stage is based on deep successful experience of everything that must follow, from accurate feasibility costs through construction to successful operation or sale.