Benchmark Property is an Ibstock based, commercial project management and quantity surveying company delivering all types of developments including infrastructure, roads, industrial units, commercial buildings, schools, supermarkets, local centres, residential apartments and very occasionally residential housing all in and around Leicestershire. We have worked with most of our developer clients for many years and one of the interesting aspects of what we do, is that we do everything for them and often even before they know what they need.
We are typically engaged from project or site acquisition focusing at that stage on due diligence and viability including whole development cost estimates and development appraisals. From there we will gather up the consultant team (most of whom are partner consultants), guide the pre-construction process and design, produce the development programmes, move the development through planning, continue with cost estimates and financial reporting, we write the development specifications, we tender, place appointments and contracts and then manage the construction phase delivery including the project management and the quantity surveying.
Where our clients are externally funded, we will deal with the drawdowns; where there are end purchasers or tenants, we will deal with them directly and including the purchase agreements and agreements for leases and leases (with our client's solicitors). Most of our...