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The button bar to the right provides examples of how we use the measurement process to achieve these results.

Measurement is our core business and the principles and systems we employ are based on over 20 years experience as both independent measurement and estimating specialists.

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Our approach is to look beyond the historic rules based measurement systems used by most employers’ quantity surveyors to one which addresses the current needs of contractors, namely:
Measurement and Bills of Quantities Services
Designed to Meet the Needs of Main Contractors
Improved Bid Preparation

- Coordinated approach
- Reduced time required by contractors’ team
- Reduced bidding risks
- Less time pressures
- Lower bid preparation costs

Improved Bid Performance

- Improved accuracy of measured and rated work
- Lower sub-contractor and supplier quotations
- Improved sub-contractor return ratios
- Lower cost options (design and build)
- Ability to resolve errors in employers’ documentation
- Reduced need for provisions to cover unknowns
- Reduced bidding risks
- Reduced variance in bid data
- Improved programs
- Clearer understanding of preliminary requirements
- Improved adjudications and presentations
- Improved win ratios

Improved Performance of Secured Projects

- Measurement that can be used during the construction phase
- Improved project plans
- Clearer understanding of unresolved issues
- Improved accuracy of budgets and targets
- Reduced level of claims by sub-contractors
- Reduced waste
- Clearer understanding of variations
- Improved margins