Ground-up commercial, tenant improvement, retail rollouts, pre-engineered metal buildings and light industrial shells.
Commercial bids turn on three things: general conditions, the structural package, and where MEP responsibility actually starts and stops. Those get the most review time.
On pre-engineered buildings the manufacturer’s supplied package is separated from field-installed scope, because that boundary is where double-counting and gaps both live. On tenant improvement work, pricing starts from the landlord’s real base-build condition rather than an assumed bare shell.
General conditions under-run on long programmes, PEMB scope counted twice, and design-intent MEP priced as though it were coordinated.
Each one has its own page covering how that trade is measured, the units it is measured in, and the errors we look for.
Anonymised: no client names, project numbers or drawing extracts. Each card states what was measured and how the deliverable was structured.
Structural and miscellaneous metals alongside a complete electrical takeoff for a public elementary school, produced for a subcontractor bidding both packages against the same deadline.
Waste transfer facility combining heavy slab and retaining structures, a steel enclosure, tipping floor and the site interface. The boundary between building and sitework scope had to be defined before anything could be measured.
Estimating support for a London developer across a multi-block mixed-use scheme, with cost information structured for their internal reporting rather than an imported American format.
The manufacturer supplied package is separated from field-installed scope explicitly, because that boundary is where double-counting and gaps both live. You see exactly what is supply and what is erection.
Yes. Pricing starts from the landlord base-build condition described in the lease or drawings rather than an assumed bare shell, which is a common and expensive assumption.
Yes, modelled against the actual programme duration rather than a percentage. General conditions under-run on long programmes is one of the more damaging errors in commercial bidding.
A fixed fee, a firm delivery date and a written scope statement, usually back the same working day.
Fixed project fees · Written scope before work starts · Unlimited revisions within scope
