A house, an office fit-out, a process plant and a road corridor go wrong in different places. Each sector page covers the packages we produce, the scope a typical estimate carries, the trades its bids turn on and the omissions we look for.
ResidentialSingle-family builds, custom villas, multi-family blocks, remodels, conversions and interior fit-out.
CommercialGround-up commercial, tenant improvement, retail rollouts, pre-engineered metal buildings and light industrial shells.
IndustrialManufacturing facilities, process piping, plant structural steel, equipment setting and heavy MEP distribution.
Civil & SiteworkLand clearing, excavation, cut and fill, wet and dry utilities, roadway, concrete flatwork and asphalt paving.
The same measurement discipline applies everywhere. What changes is where the risk sits, and therefore where the review time goes.
| Sector | Typical projects | What the bid turns on | Common omissions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Residential | Single-family builds, custom villas, multi-family blocks, remodels, conversions and interior fit-out. | Finishes priced room by room against the schedule; demolition and making-good as their own lines on remodels | Averaged finishes, missing demolition, waste factors applied inconsistently between trades, and tight urban sites priced as if access were free. |
| Commercial | Ground-up commercial, tenant improvement, retail rollouts, pre-engineered metal buildings and light industrial shells. | General conditions against the real programme, the structural package, and where MEP responsibility starts and stops | General conditions under-run on long programmes, PEMB scope counted twice, and design-intent MEP priced as though it were coordinated. |
| Industrial | Manufacturing facilities, process piping, plant structural steel, equipment setting and heavy MEP distribution. | Piping by specification and service, steel connections priced apart from tonnage, and live-plant productivity | Piping aggregated across specs, connection labour buried inside a tonnage rate, and shutdown or live-plant productivity losses left out. |
| Civil & Sitework | Land clearing, excavation, cut and fill, wet and dry utilities, roadway, concrete flatwork and asphalt paving. | Earthwork volumes with swell and shrink, the haul distance, and how unsuitable material is treated | Swell and shrink ignored, haul distance assumed, unsuitable material absorbed into the excavation rate, and dewatering missed on high-water-table sites. |
Send the drawings and the sector. You get a fixed fee, a delivery date and a written scope back, usually the same working day.
Fixed project fees · US and UK · Unlimited revisions within scope
