A project can be built on strong foundations, but it’s true strength lies in the balance between vision and cost. At MBM, our quantity surveyors work alongside you to protect the value of your investment, whether you’re planning a new build, a complex redevelopment, or a fitout.
From the earliest cost plan through to project completion, we give you visibility, clarity, and confidence. The MBM difference lies in our team, who stays connected throughout the project, in sharing our vast knowledge and experience. The MBM advice is based on our multi-faceted experience, local market knowledge as well as an extensive national database of project costs, ensuring budgets are realistic, defensible, and reflective of current market conditions.
Where others may step back, MBM leans in. We act as the binding link between all parties to keep costs transparent, drive value for money and flags risks before they become costly surprises, so your project stays on track. Our team is here to ensure sure your project delivers on its vision without compromising on financial certainty.
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Quantity Surveying Services
Feasibility studies
MBM helps you test the financial viability of your idea, by stepping in early to explore what’s possible, what’s practical, and what will truly deliver value. Our team works with you to build a realistic budget that reflects both ambition and reality. We look at the design through a commercial lens-highlighting risks, stress-testing assumptions, and helping you weigh different paths forward. During feasibility, our team leans in to get a detailed understanding of the project, the site specifics, possible risk factors and other such items which may have a potential cost impact. This early appreciation of the scope will help to develop robust allowances in the initial estimate to ensures costly surprises are avoided
Cost planning
From concept through to tender stage design, our cost plans are developed to capture scope, identify risks and ensure suitable allowances are made. This ensures the smooth running of the project, reducing the risk of budget over-runs, and the need to make costly and time-consuming changes to the design to meet financial outcomes.
Controlling cost and maintaining budget during the design and construction phase of any project requires considered planning and proactive decision making. A key pillar to this is setting a realistic initial budget and making the design team aware of any possible deviations from scope considered in the initial estimate produced. By working with the design team and making them aware of cost issues as they arise will help to ensure the project progresses in line with the proposed budget.
Value Engineering
MBM facilitates structured value management workshops to identify opportunities to reduce costs, optimise design, or enhance performance without compromising functionality. Our approach ensures that value engineering is informed, strategic, and transparent. If at any point the cost estimate is tracking over the budget, MBM provides options for the Client and stakeholders to consider reducing the anticipated cost.
Bill of Quantities
A Bill of Quantities provides an independent even playfield for tenderers and reduces the risk of inaccurate tender submissions. A Bill of Quantities also provides an independent cross-check of construction documentation prior to tender.
Escalation
Market volatility can significantly impact project budgets, particularly where construction timeframes span multiple years. MBM provides clear escalation advice by analysing real-time economic drivers and translating them into forecasted cost impacts. Leveraging insights from our national network of specialists across each service line, we assess the full spectrum of influences including material availability, labour capacity, inflationary pressures, and sector-specific supply chain factors. Our escalation modelling is informed by current ABS data, industry benchmarking, tender intelligence, and direct feedback from contractors and suppliers.
Risk Strategy
MBM has developed a pro-active and systematic approach to identify and evaluate risks on construction projects. Our approach allows us to make considered allowances in the project budget for risks through various methods including pricing and scoring risk registers and calculating probabilistic inherent and contingent risk costs.
Embodied Carbon
Our team gets involved early with project teams to select low-carbon materials, conduct design-for-performance assessments, and identify carbon hotspots within cost plans. We incorporate circular economy strategies like component reuse, ensuring that every design decision contributes to emission reduction. We tackle embodied carbon comprehensively—from structure and substructure to façades, glazing, roofs, insulation, and site-wide infrastructure—so clients can make informed choices at every step.
Environmental and Sustainable Solutions
Our team’s expertise in cost management and estimating helps identify sustainable, cost-effective solutions. We also advise on the lifecycle costs of various options, factoring in energy and resource consumption, maintenance, and replacement costs. MBM's services empower clients to make informed decisions that align with both environmental and financial objectives.
Procurement and Contracts
MBM provides considered advice on procurement and contract selections to assist the client in choosing the best contract and procurement strategy for each type of project.
Independent Certifier
Impartial services within project requirements to act between Parties to determine disputes. The scope often includes reviewing designs, determine extension of time disputes, certify payment claims and the like; determine disputes over any issue including contractual obligations; and signing off on practical completion or earlier project milestones.
Construction Stage
Every project relies on trust that work completed is fairly valued, that costs are under control, and that the investment is secure. Without clear oversight, small discrepancies can quickly turn into disputes or financial strain. MBM provides that assurance by carefully reviewing progress claims, measuring completed works, and monitoring variations or client changes as they arise. Our team keeps a close watch on the budget and ensures payments are accurate, justified, and aligned with the project’s true progress. For financiers and developers alike, our reporting framework upholds transparency. Through cost-to-complete assessments, progress reporting, and clear identification of emerging risks, MBM protects both the financial stability and the relationships that underpin a successful project.