Cost management
Maximise value and minimise your risks by estimating, allocating, and controlling costs throughout the lifecycle of your project.
Realising value for money for your project
Whether your project relates to built environment masterplanning, new developments, fit out and refurbishments, we bring unparalleled expertise and cost insight across all markets and sectors. Through intelligent budgeting, active value management and dynamic capital planning, we establish a strong base of commercial rigour. Using in-depth reporting, up-to-date market intelligence, the latest technology and controlled contract management we offer cost efficiency, enhanced control and reduced risk as standard.
Featured services
Pre-contract cost management
Bring methodical, analytical and collaborative approaches to development, maximise value generation, align spend with value, mitigate risk and bring certainty of outcome through our technology, processes and people.
Pre-contract cost managementDevelopment monitoring
Bring certainty to your development(s) through cost and commercial monitoring, validating at every stage and identifying risk mitigatory strategies to realise successful outcomes.
Development monitoringPost-contract cost management
Keep close control on the costs of your project. Early identification of cost risk, unexpected change, cashflow and supply chain challenges are proactively forecast to keep your project on track.
Post-contract cost managementFeasibility and viability studies
Establish robust construction budgets, with minimal information at the outset/inception of a project to bring assurance that optimises value, minimises risk and identifies delivery challenges.
Feasibility and viability studiesCost benchmarking
Ensure accuracy, insight, certainty and understanding – whether setting budgets or challenging cost advice from others – through our holistic and granular benchmark data.
Cost benchmarkingCapital planning
Establish a viable and accurate baseline budget aligned to validated benchmarks to provide a frame of reference to maximise efficiency of your property or portfolio spend programmes.
Capital planning
Research & insights
The rise of the workplace experience manager
Companies are looking for people to boost employee experience and productivity
Opportunity through obsolescence
Protecting and creating value in properties and places at risk of stranding
PODCAST: Are small nuclear reactors the future of data center power?
Experts explore how compact nuclear technology could meet skyrocketing energy demands and reshape the industry.
Johannesburg Industrial Market Dynamics, Q3 2024
Summary and analysis of Johanneburg's current industrial real estate market conditions.
Durban Industrial Market Dynamics, Q3 2024
Summary and analysis of Durban's current industrial real estate market conditions.
Cape Town Industrial Market Dynamics, Q3 2024
Summary and analysis of Cape Town's current industrial real estate market conditions.
Urban housing: one area generations agree on
People of all ages want more green space and a sense of community
Durban Office Market Dynamics, Q3 2024
Summary and analysis of Durban's current office real estate market conditions.
Cape Town Office Market Dynamics, Q3 2024
Summary and analysis of Cape Town's current office real estate market conditions.
Johannesburg Office Market Dynamics, Q3 2024
Summary and analysis of Johannesburg's current office real estate market conditions.
Prepare yourself for the future of retail
Hybrid places, sustainable stores, shopper assistants and more
PODCAST: Tenants firm up strategies for prized offices
How are corporates tackling their workplace requirements amid return-to-office pressures and limited new development?
How new work environments can reduce stress
A new study shows that the office environment has a strong influence on well-being and productivity
Bricks-and-mortar’s new must have: digital experiences
Real estate leaders must cater to digital expectations or risk feeling out of the loop
Experience Matters
What’s driving consumer choice and experience across places and spaces?
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Project management
Transform spaces where people live, work and play. Realise your strategic goals, completing your project on time and within budget.
Project managementProject monitoring
Manage and oversee the developers in charge of your project (forward sale or lease).
Project monitoringDevelopment management
Get advice on master planning, project feasibility, financing for ground-up construction, build-to-suit, or complex redevelopment.
Development managementProgramme management
Consistently manage and co-ordinate multiple concurrent projects across your portfolio.
Programme managementDigital solutions
Harness the power of our digital solutions to increase accuracy, efficiency and reduce costs.
Digital solutionsNet zero carbon design
Establish and manage your decarbonization pathway across your portfolio.
Net zero carbon design