Residential development
Twenty four apartments, single block
One block, three apartment types repeated through it, and a set of communal areas that had to be apportioned across all twenty four. The building was not the difficult part. Keeping the cost consistent between types was.
The scheme
Repetition is only an advantage if it holds
A multi-unit block looks like a cost planner's easy job. One type, priced once, multiplied out. In practice the types drift: a different window here, a wider corridor there, a services riser that only appears on two floors.
Every one of those differences is small. Multiplied across twenty four units, small stops being the right word for it.
At a glance
The commercial facts
Everything we publish about a scheme, and nothing that identifies anybody.
Our part in it
What we were asked to do
Rebuild the quantities from the drawings rather than accept the schedule as given, so each apartment type could be priced on its own basis and compared against the others.
Test the scope for what had been left between packages, particularly around the communal areas, where responsibility is easiest to assume and hardest to find later.
Set out the cost position in a form the client could take to a board and defend, with each figure traceable back to the drawing it came from.
The scheme
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