Tailored expertise designed to meet your specific needs.
Advisory
We support our Clients worldwide to expand their opportunities or address specific challenges. Our specialist consultants are experts in their field and take the time to understand your requirements and advise you on the most appropriate solution.
Other expertise
We plan, monitor and control all aspects of a project and, keep all parties involved motivated to achieve the project objectives on time and to the specified cost, quality and performance.
We deliver effective cost management services for any type of contracts ensuring that your project is completed on budget and according to its planned scope, quality, and performance.
Contract administration
As contract administrator, we are responsible for administering the terms of the construction contract until closeout. The role encompasses pre-contract coordination as well as administering post contract activities.
We ensure compliance with contractual provisions related to the flow of adequate information, submission of notices, valuations and payment assessments, submission of claims for additional payment, and extensions of time.
For ‘design and build’ construction contracts, please refer to employer’s agent services.
Good contract administration is fundamental to the effective functioning of any construction contract.
What we offer
Our team will assist you in:
- Preparing contract documents for execution;
- Administrating change control procedures;
- Seeking and issuing instructions in relation to the contract;
- Considering claims;
- Chairing meetings;
- Agreeing commissioning and testing procedures;
- Agreeing defects reporting procedures;
- Ensuring all project documentation is issued to the client;
- Issuing certificates of practical completion and interim certificates;
- Collating and issuing schedules of defects;
- Issuing the final certificate.
Reinstatement cost assessment
An accurate reinstatement cost assessment is important to ensure your property is insured for the correct amount, avoiding situations of under and over insurance. If your property is undervalued, insurance payments may not adequately cover the cost of rebuilding. Likewise, if the building is overvalued, your insurance premiums will be higher than they need to be.
Our skills and knowledge allow us to assess building cost indices and other important factors including, demolition, site clearance, specialist features, site topography and fees.
We carry out a detailed inspection of your property and give you an accurate cost for rebuilding, ensuring you are always covered to the appropriate level.
Make sure your property is appropriately insured.
What we offer
Our services include:
- Undertaking thorough site inspections to understand the different forms of construction;
- Reviewing existing drawings and/or undertaking a detailed measured survey of properties to ascertain the gross internal floor areas;
- Calculating the day one building reinstatement cost using current cost information and documenting our findings in a brief and clear report;
- Liaising with the building’s insurer/asset manager to understand their aims/requirements;
- Undertaking desktop-based re-assessment valuations based on changes in the building cost index for properties with accurate re-building values, on an annual basis.
Employer's agent
Design and build contracts are becoming very popular in the construction industry due to the desire from employers for transferring risks on time and costs to contractors. However, when the design of a project is passed over to a contractor, the employer has to make sure that all requirements are properly defined and included in the contract documentation.
As employer’s agent, we act, collaborate, lead and manage all aspects of the project environment to achieve smooth, efficient and controlled progress throughout the project life-cycle.
Our specialist advisors work closely with project stakeholders – including tenants, funders, third parties, local community – and bring together designers and contractors to deliver cost effective solutions.
For ‘traditional’ construction contracts, please refer to contract administration services.
We act on behalf of our Clients and administrate design and build contracts.
What we offer
Our team will assist you in:
- Analysing and defining the project requirements;
- Managing the design team and leading the design process;
- Managing time, cost and quality;
- Managing all project stakeholders;
- Preparing the contract documentation;
- Providing advice of suitable procurement methods;
- Managing the procurement process;
- Administrating the construction contract.
Lenders independent monitoring surveying
In the unpredictable and fast-evolving asset management industry, lenders require dynamic and flexible solutions to support their investment strategies. From market insights to assistance with regulatory change and cost-control, we assist you in identifying and mitigating risks through the development process.
This will include regular site visits to ensure the project is running to programme and budget and to pick up any issues when they arise and resolve efficiently, informing the lender throughout.
We monitor construction projects for lenders to safeguard their financial commitment.
What we offer
Our team will assist you in:
- Providing an independent initial report assessing budget and build cost, site conditions, insurances and warranties, statutory approvals, construction drawings, contracts, permits and other matters that may affect the lender’s security;
- Providing periodic progress reports detailing programme and progress, design and workmanship, building warranty and statutory approval compliance and discharge, recommendation for drawdown payment against facility and other any areas of concern for the project.
Building surveying
Our building surveyor team is composed of independent designers, planners, engineers, architects, consultants and technical specialists, providing the link between you and the contracting world.
We provide expert advice to owners, occupiers, developers, public bodies and government organisations at both strategic and operational levels, with the aim to ensure that a project is completed to brief and ideally sustainability, safely, on time, and to the correct level of quality, all to match your budget.
The ultimate aim for all involved in designing and constructing all aspects of a building should be to enhance the quality of the built environment.
What we offer
Our team will assist you in:
- Advising on dilapidations issues;
- Surveying the condition of a building or property before purchase;
- Helping to manage and budget a building by compiling planned preventative maintenance programmes;
- Implementing the refurbishment of a property;
- Providing guidance and advice on the party wall.
Services we provide:
- Construction design and building works;
- Property management and monitoring;
- Insurance assessment and claims;
- Planning applications;
- Pre-acquisition surveys;
- Negotiating dilapidations claims.
5D BIM
BIM or Building Information Modelling is the process of creating and managing a digital representation of physical and functional characteristics of a construction project across its entire lifecycle.
With our expertise in BIM, we enable designers, architects, engineers and contractors, to collaborate effectively and increase quality, time and cost efficiency.
BIM is a robust process and not only a technology.
What we offer
Our team will assist you in:
- Optimizing the design: we map your workflows to identify process gaps which can be improved to enhance the design efficiency and outcome; ultimately delivering a high quality design in an integrated ecosystem;
- Improving the quality: our process helps in eliminating workflow risks which results in poor design deliverables. We work closely with the project stakeholders to deliver the project objectives;
- Mitigating risks: we help in eliminating risks by establishing an automated clash detections and compliance framework tracked at all stages.
Services we provide:
- BIM advisory including strategic, contractual, implementation and application;
- BIM tender assistance;
- BIM process definition including guidelines for information exchange process, information held within models, use of models, communication, team collaboration workflows and software exchange;
- Information management, ensure model management is set and maintained;
- BIM business process transformation and change management;
- BIM project kick-off documentation;
- BIM capability audit and process quality audit;
- BIM project management;
- Construction operations building information exchange (COBie) – scoping, understanding and awareness technology plan development;
- BIM for facility and asset management.
Schedule management
The purpose of “scheduling and planning” is to analyse all individual tasks needed to execute the works, to determine their sequences and their critical path – through graphic documents.
The purpose of “coordination” is to harmonize the project team’s actions over time and space – at works execution stage.
The purpose of “steering” is to implement the various organisational processes developed during ‘scheduling and coordination’ stage – at works execution stage and until snags are cleared.
Our team plans the execution of the works, coordinates the various interventions of the contractors and guarantees the deadlines defined before the start as well as the best possible organization on site.
Our goal is to optimize the execution of the works and to guarantee a perfect organization.
What we offer
Our team will assist you in:
- Determine the sequence of tasks and the critical path;
- Develop the forecast construction programme;
- Develop the “execution” programme in agreement with nominated contractors;
- Maintain the programme up to date;
- Organize weekly meetings and issue minutes;
- Monitor progress against contractual deadlines;
- Implement corrective action in the event of a delay;
- Manage contractors to clear snags.
Solar energy advisory
Development of a solar project on a building, a sunshade or on the ground, requires taking into account many technical, environmental, regulatory, economic and architectural parameters. Solar technology, business models and regulations are constantly evolving. Given these rapid changes, it is complex and risky for a Client to embark on such an operation without assistance.
Our team assist you on all or on a portion of your solar project. Thus, we offer “shopping list” type of services that are tailored to your needs.
Energy conservation is the foundation of energy independence.
What we offer
Our team will assist you in:
- Conduct feasibility studies;
- Develop the design of the solar project;
- Select the best suppliers and contractors;
- Conduct solar performance studies;
- Obtain consent and other approvals from local authorities;
- Advise on tender documentation;
- Analyse tenders and recommend on best offer;
- Technical assistance during the execution of works, until snags are cleared;
- Monitor the testing and commissioning;
- Audit and analysis of production requirements in line with site consumption;
- Assistance to contractors to prepare and respond to a tender.
Corporate restructuring and recovery
Companies facing financial difficulties require advisors who understand the significant challenges they face; advisors with experience, an inherent curiosity to structure the best solution and a reputation for delivery.
Our team have extensive experience of providing strategic advice to distressed companies, directors and creditors, prominent insolvency practitioners, and domestic and international financial institutions.
We have been involved in insolvency and restructuring matters for clients in a wide range of sectors, including the technology, healthcare, financial services, media, food and beverage, and hospitality industries.
Our vision and values stem from our passion to improve quality of life through our work.
What we offer
Our work includes advising:
- Companies and insolvency practitioners with respect to all aspects of examinership law;
- Bankruptcy and other debt restructuring arrangements;
- Companies, their directors and insolvency practitioners in relation to liquidations to include both creditors’ voluntary and members’ voluntary winding ups;
- Credit institutions, companies and individuals in relation to debt restructuring arrangements;
- Tax advice on all aspects of restructuring;
- Financial institutions in the context of borrower default to include reporting on security held;
- Credit institutions and insolvency practitioners in relation to all aspects of receivership law; and
- Debtors in financial difficulty.
Legal advisory
Services provided by the law firm ASEA: https://www.asea-avocats.com/
Specializing in public and real estate law, ASEA provides its clients with a team of recognized and experienced lawyers.
The law firm ASEA offers local authorities, their groups, but also their partners (associations, SEM, SPL, SPLA, SEMOP), economic operators providiers (especially construction companies) and real estate players (promoters, EPFL, Foncières, condominiums), to assist them, advise them and represent them in both administrative and judicial courts.
Present in Lyon and Turin, but operating throughout France, ASEA also assists companies wishing to establish themselves in Italy, or conversely Italian companies looking for support for a French location.
ASEA is committed to principles that form the basis of its professional values: Reactivity - Availability - Efficiency
What we offer
Services we provide:
- Planning and environmental law;
- Public procurement and concession law and, more generally, public contracts;
- Settings of public and private real estate transactions;
- Local authorities and their satellites (Association, SEM, SPL, etc.);
- Tourism law;
- Legal issues related to the New Economy.
Our projects
Federal Street 5 Star Hotel
The Federal Street Hotel is targeting a 5 Star Hotel rating – a hotel that is to be considered a landmark building for the city
AP-HP | Hôpital Tenon
Birthplace of the iconic singer Edith Piaf, Tenon hospital underwent some major works in recent years – which resulted in shifting the hospital centre of
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