Outline Cost
Consultants
We are an entity with extraordinary capacity and great potential with over 5 years of expertise & growing
About Us
Outline Cost Consultants Limited is a well- established professional Construction Consultancy firm offering Quantity Surveying, Building Economics, Project Management and all related consultancy services as regards to building & civil engineering works. We are an entity with extraordinary capacity and great potential with over 5 years of experience and a collective corporate and individual expertise spanning to over 100 years & growing; the sky is the limit for this Quantity Surveying & Construction Consultancy firm.
Quantity Surveying
A quantity surveyor (QS) is a construction industry professional with expert knowledge on construction costs and contracts. We are responsible for managing all aspects of the contractual and financial side of construction projects. We also manage the costs on construction projects. As our main objective, we to ensure that the construction project is completed within its projected budget. Major Services offered under Quantity Surveying include: Cost estimate, cost planning and cost management Tender management including preparation of Bills of Quantities, Contract Conditions and assembly of tender documents Contract management and contractual advice Valuation of construction work Claims and dispute management.
Value Engineering
Cost engineering is “the engineering practice devoted to the management of project cost, involving such activities as estimating, cost control, cost forecasting, investment appraisal and risk analysis.” One key objective of cost engineering is to arrive at accurate cost estimates and schedules and to avoid cost overruns and schedule slips. Cost engineering goes beyond preparing cost estimates and schedules by helping manage resources and supporting assessment and decision making.
Project Management
Project management is the application of processes, methods, skills, knowledge and experience to achieve specific project objectives according to the project acceptance criteria within agreed parameters. Project management has final deliverables that are constrained to a finite timescale and budget. A key factor that distinguishes project management from just ‘management’ is that it has this final deliverable and a finite timespan, unlike management which is an ongoing process. Because of this, a project professional needs a wide range of skills; often technical skills, and certainly people management skills and good business awareness.
Contracts & Claims Consultants
More often than not, the word “claim” is widely heard and used in construction sector. As with any human endeavor where more than two parties are involved, contracting operations are fraught with controversy and dispute, and it has become important to know how to prevent and solve claims in time to avoid compounding the problem later in the contract. It is everybody’s dream to have a construction contract where the conditions are ideal, to have a job that is completed on schedule and within budget with few changes in scope and without unexpected occurrences. Unfortunately, such conditions are seldom found
Arbitration
Arbitration is a form of alternative dispute resolution (ADR). It is a procedure in which a dispute is submitted, by agreement of the parties, to one or more arbitrators who make a binding decision on the dispute. In choosing arbitration, the parties opt for a private dispute resolution procedure instead of going to court.
Feasibility Studies
A feasibility study is an analysis that takes all of a project’s relevant factors into account—including economic, technical, legal, and scheduling considerations—to ascertain the likelihood of completing the project successfully.
