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CONSTRUCTION CONSULTING FIRMS

Fourie Consultants is a professional construction consulting firm dedicated to providing construction estimating consultant services.  Being specialist construction management consultants allows us to extract the best value for the owner and project team.

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Our construction consulting company believes that the best bid results come from competitive bids between educated and engaged subcontractors, on a well-coordinated bid document set, that has been designed to a realistic budget by a cost informed design team.  Our services are structured to deliver that.

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Feasibility Stage

  • Establish realistic budget

  • Similar project cost benchmarking studies

  • A range of hard & soft costs

  • Site selection cost evaluations

  • Local market conditions

  • Project options evaluation

Program Budget Stage

  • Detailed Functional Program Area Cost Plan

  • Reconcile quality expectations with cost

  • Project options evaluation

  • Net-to-Gross floor area development

  • Functional Program revenue projections

  • Establish realistic local Construction Cost standard

Conceptual Design Stage

  • Detailed Concept Level Cost Plan

  • Construction Cost standard for renovation projects

  • Include & accommodate specialist budgets (equipment) 

  • Net-to-Gross Functional Area comparison

  • Concept options evaluation 

  • Cost reduction and value engineering work sessions

  • Subcontractor outreach and education program

  • Constructability comments, BIM implementation

Design Milestones

  • Detailed design milestone estimates

  • Cost reduction and value engineering work sessions 

  • Include & accommodate specialist budgets (equipment) 

  • Integrate with the design team 

  • Cost informed design

  • Track scope, pricing, and market material fluctuation

  • Reconcile with CM/GC estimates (if selected) 

  • Subcontractor outreach & education program

  • Design & Construction Schedule review

  • Constructability review & BIM implementation

Construction Document Stage

  • Continuation of milestone services

  • Collaborate with CM/GC (if selected)

  • Subcontractor coverage evaluation

  • Subcontractor constructability work sessions

  • Subcontractor specification review

  • BIM model clash detection

  • Bill of Materials

Bid Stage

  • Bid document review

  • CM/GC bid analysis

  • General requirements analysis

  • General conditions analysis

  • Independent subcontractor scope sheets

  • Final bid vs estimate reconciliation

  • Schedule of values review

Construction Stage

  • Payment application verification

  • Change order estimates

  • Change order validation

  • Allowance review and management

  • Contingency review and management

  • Project closeout

Construction Management

  • Opinion of soft costs

  • Design competition participation

  • Team selection assistance

  • RFQ & RFP writing

  • Scopes of work

  • CM/GC qualification review 

  • Construction management plan

  • Quality statement

  • Overall project schedule

  • Cash flow model

Professional Presentations

(CE Credits Available)

  • How to bid your project to budget every time!

  • Utilizing BIM for better bid results.

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