Bills of Quantities Surveyors - United Kingdom & Ireland

About Us

We are BOQ Consulting Services, a Quantity Surveying practice based in Cork, Ireland, with offices in London, UK, providing estimator-friendly pricing documents for the Construction Industry, using advanced measurement and billing software, coupled with over 100 years of combined knowledge and experience in the construction industry and traditional and modern construction techniques.

BOQ Consulting Services

Our company has built long-lasting relationships and become the first-choice specialist in providing bills of quantities, cost plans and estimating services for our clients. Whatever the size or complexity of the project we’re involved they all receive the same degree of individual attention and professionalism from our dedicated team of highly experienced and skilled surveyors.

Our team’s in-depth knowledge of construction technology, coupled with a high level of expertise in construction markets in Ireland and the UK, is our foundation for consistently delivering high-quality, accurate service for our clients.

Services Overview:

  • Dedicated team of professionals across Ireland and the United Kingdom
  • Accurate, efficient, transparent, and cost-effective Measurement and Billing following ARM4, ARM5, SMM7, NRM2 or CESSM4.
  • Cost Planning issued in a format to suit with minimal design information required
  • Earthworks modelling/measurement with complete reports and 3D imaging issued as standard. Cut & Fill can be issued following ARM4, ARM5, SMM7, NRM2.
  • Visiting sites and attending Design Team meetings when required
  • Technical audit of design carried out in line with measurement
  • Independent/Impartial quantity checks of tender boqs and cost plans
  • Mark-ups, dims, and measurement files containing all drawings, measures, linked boqs and Cost plans issued as a standard
  • Estimating services
  • Professional advice

Measurement Approach

Professionally tailored to your needs

  • At the start of every project, we will establish a measurement brief with our clients to ensure correct estimator-friendly documents are produced and delivered on time, every time.

  • All our Bills of Quantities (Boqs) are prepared to suit easy integration / importing into clients’ estimating systems (CITE, Excel, Buildsoft).

  • Every Client is different, and we are happy to tailor the documents to suit their needs.

  • Where required, our Boqs are tailored in line with tender return pricing documents, for example, CSA or TSA.
  • We can code element bills to trade bills quickly with our customisable trade code libraries. This can be set up to tailor client requirements. Every quantity can be split by zone (trade, package, location, or level)
  • Our bills are produced in a transparent, virtual format using free-to-download CostX viewer files; quantities and workings can be viewed, their location on the drawing or in the model and how they were calculated. This technology reduces the reliance on 2D paper drawings. It gives Contractors the opportunity to understand their tender requirements better, easily visualise the components of the project and quickly respond to any revisions.
  • All measurement back-up is issued as part of our service, including GIA schedules and scaffold measures. Measurement goes through our own BOQCS ‘bulk check’ process for accuracy.
  • All our surveyors must review and sign a quantity and boq verification sheet as part of our internal QA process.

  • We can attend Design Team meetings and/or site visits if required.

  • Post Production services to respond to queries and post tender changes.

Core Services

Bills of Quantities

The core business is the preparation of accurate and detailed Bills of Quantities measuring in accordance with ARM4, ARM5, SMM7, NRM2 or CESMM4.

Our practice uses the latest Quantity Surveying and Estimating software, RIB Costx. Due to the software’s advanced measurement capabilities it allows precise, accurate quantity take-off quickly and allows dynamic links from the pricing documents directly to the drawings or BIM, enabling full transparency and interactivity. This efficiency allows our surveyors to spend more time checking what’s not shown on the tender information but required, notifying the clients team and creating workarounds and describing complex works clearly to aid pricing.

We have a proven track record in producing accurate, comprehensive, efficient and easy to navigate BQs. Using a standard easily navigable approach, we can efficiently incorporate tender addendums and value engineering as required.

Advanced Surveying Software

Technical Audits & Pricing Document Checks

Measurement in accordance with a standard measurement method is an excellent way to identify scope gaps in the design.

We adopt a comprehensive Q&R process in parallel with measurement, which allows us to undertake a technical audit to identify shortcomings in the design and coordination of the tender information. This approach delivers a ‘Value add’ rather than a ‘fait accompli’ service and has been widely adopted.

We offer an independent and impartial quantity check of tender pricing documents using a user friendly approach and adjustable document template.

We can easily identify what has been over or under measured and include items missed off drawings separately without interfering with original pricing document.

Industry Leading Methodologies

Earthworks

We use Mudshark Earth modelling software for all our bulk cut-and-fill measurements.

This software allows us to reflect the Soil Investigation Reports in 3D, including borehole logs, analysis of soil and sub-soil stratums.

We can determine what can be be-re-used more accurately, enabling our clients to reduce the volume of disposal off-site.

Mudshark is the only Earth Modelling software that can produce results in accordance with ARM4, ARM5, SMM7 or NRM2.

Advanced Modelling Insights

Cost Planning

Using our expertise and knowledge of the construction market, we produce quality cost planning and budgetary advice. Our cost plans can be produced in client-specific formats, BCIS elemental or in accordance with NRM 1.

We are commercially aware and can integrate market advice from our many industry contacts built up over 30 years. We live link quantities and rates directly to our estimate templates, which can be updated unlimited times as the design is developed (Live cost plan). This is particularly useful when updating costs from scheme design to production design stages. With our experienced team of professionals, we can provide cost plans using minimal design information.

Next Generation Thinking

5D BIM For Contractors

We are firm BIM advocates and believe that through 5D Cost Planning, we can create significant cost savings by providing cost planning services that deliver cost certainty through realistic and precise cost estimates from concept to construction and at any point throughout all levels of development.

We offer a service where we can interrogate the model, work closely with the designer, model maps the quantities and use manual ‘workarounds’ to fill gaps in the design. Utilising this technology allows BOQCS to push traditional barriers in Quantity Takeoff.

Cutting edge cost planning

Estimating

BOQ Consulting Services has an experienced estimating team available to enable us to create competitive and quality tender submissions on all types of projects. Our estimators all held senior positions for major contractors before launching BOQCS.

We have a proven track record of providing thorough and detailed submissions and having a practical and knowledgeable understanding of the current marketplace. Depending on requirements, we use Conquest Estimating and / or Costx software for our estimating services.

Professional estimating

Experience

Our surveyors are from a Contractor quantity surveying or estimating background, and we have a team of 20 dedicated professionals across Ireland and the United Kingdom. They are a highly experienced and skilled group of professionals with experience in projects across all sectors from €1 million to €500 million plus. They bring their years of industry experience and know-how with advanced measurement software to create accurate pricing documents for our clients. Choosing BOQ Consulting services to produce your quantities will give you peace of mind that comes from our pro-active, reliable, personable and dependable approach.

Client Confidentiality

RICS Rules of Conduct govern our company and see confidentiality as a primary professional duty.

Sectors

Whatever the size or complexity, the project will benefit from the team’s dynamic approach and experience across all industry sectors. We have experience working across many construction sectors, ranging from small to medium-sized projects to large-scale Private or Public Sector projects.

Construction Projects Experience:

  • Hospitality

  • Digital Infrastructure

  • Residential

  • Commercial

  • Mixed-use

  • Aviation

  • Industrial

Accreditations

The Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) is the world’s leading professional body for qualifications and standards in land, property, infrastructure and construction.

Our director is a chartered member with this distinguished professional body.