Our Services

Project Management

Our capabilities cover all technical and engineering aspects of projects, planning, predicting, scheduling and managing from cradle to grave, including:

• PMO (Project Management Office) locum project team
• Contract Administration
• Employers Agent
• Clerk of Works
• Project Supervisor
• Building Services Management
• Commissioning
• Extended lifecycle

Design and Design Management

Architectural, Structural and MEP design services through to traditional multi-discipline design to re-engineer buildings and accommodate change or refurbishments – typically RIBA Stages 1-4.

• Lifecycle replacement of key building components
• Workplace and estate redevelopments
• Design Management, where clients prefer a Design & Build approach, we manage the design proposals to ensure they are in line with Client expectation – This includes monitoring the implementation of the contractor’s design and typically cover RIBA stages 4-5
• Construction Design Management – Principal Designer
• Feasibility Studies – Undertake RIBA Stage 0 to 2 activities to define a project to a point where definition is achieved and an approach to design and procurement can be realised

Cost Consulting and Quantity Surveying

We help determine clients’ requirements and undertake feasibility studies. By mapping out the whole life cycles of assets and buildings clients are able to forecast for maintenance and costings with our active management of costs processes. These 5, 10, 15 and 20 year plans help spread costs, keep assets running saving energy and money whilst giving clients confidence and avoiding potential unwanted issues. Cost planning from annual plans through to perpetual cost plans fully tailored to the client’s need.

Surveying

Asset and estate surveying, planning, predicting, scheduling and managing maintenance from start to finish. Our engineering surveyors can inspect any aspect of your estate from targeted survey to fire dampers to full condition surveys with costed capital plans for vast estates.

• Due diligence surveys
• Reactive repairs and replacement
• Planned preventative maintenance reports
• Statutory compliance reviews
• NHS M&E six facet surveys
• Feasibility reports for investments
• Clerk of Works
• Project Supervisor
• Building Services Management
• Commissioning

Contract Drafting and Administration

Professional Services, Procurement and tenders – For many organisations applying for grants and funding this process can be daunting and time consuming, as well as writing their own tenders for scopes of work required. We are happy to handholding throughout, supporting and often managing the whole bid management and tendering processes for clients.

• Grant application
• Procurement selection
• Tender writing and running
• Bid Management
• Market testing
• Prequalifying contractors and soft market testing
• Experts in two-stage strategic tendering
• PFI Hand back
• Contract drafting – Putting together employers’ requirements for major maintenance, refurbishments, upgrades, and any other service being wished to be procured
• FM Contract writing, wrapping a service provision around the requirements of the Client to undertake performance-based maintenance

Energy

Usage has become increasingly important both from environmental and cost perspectives. Insights help is conserve and control consumption by identifying and then solving inefficiencies.

• Monitoring & targeting
• Energy Surveys
• PAS 35 Assessors
• Retrofit advice
• Metering strategy
• Benchmarking building against industry standards – CIBSE
• Building energy profiles

Dispute Resolution and Defect Investigation

Defect identification and management is a critical part of contract administration and early case appraisals can mitigate the need for future escalations. Should mediation and arbitration be required Q Works provides facilitation to stakeholders, to achieve compliance and resolution.

• Case appraisal
• Conciliation
• Mediation
• Arbitration

Maintenance

After works are completed, our involvement starts, ensuring that repairs and maintenance are built into a manageable programme of works which suits clients and the needs of their estates and buildings.

• Condition surveys
• Technical studies
• Specific, In-depth surveys for the condition of plant or systems
• Dilapidation surveys
• Legislative compliance
• Asset register validation/creation
• Providing monitoring of expensive items of plant from incinerators, chillers, offsite manufacture of building components
• Factory Assessment Testing (FAT) witnessing/representing the Client Maintenance Planning
• Reliability centred bespoke maintenance schedules are key – what should be done and how it should be carried out. Plans should be constantly updated according to known data and forecasting studies.
• SFG20 integration
• Business led criticality maintenance

Quality Management

Good project outcomes require tight control and our approach to quality management successful results for all stakeholders.

• Quality planning
• Quality assurance
• Quality control
• Quality improvement
• Post-completion inspections