We provide professional quantity surveying consultancy services in Mombasa city and the larger coastal region of Kenya. This region encompasses the former coastal province, spanning the present-day counties of Kwale, Mombasa, Taita Taveta, Kilifi, Lamu, and Tana River. Our services extend not only to this region but also to the entire country of Kenya, serving a diverse range of clients as explained in this post.
Hi, good friends, and welcome to our website. I am James Muimi Nzangi, a registered quantity surveyor and construction project manager currently based in Mombasa, Kenya. I have been in the construction industry for the last 7 years, serving public and private sector clients with bespoke construction project costs, contracts, and commercial management solutions.
I have successfully managed over 2 billion Kenyan Shillings in construction budgets, streamlining contract execution for contractors to increase their profit margins and helping project owners avoid financial losses by implementing the right contractual arrangements and accurately estimating costs.
We help prospective homeowners, real estate property developers, contractors, banks and related financial institutions, educational and religious institutions, government departments and ministries, to estimate costs for their construction projects, craft budgets and contracts, structure project financing, stay on budget during construction, and save money in the overall process of the realisation of their development projects.
This process involves preparing reports, such as cost estimates, cost plans, developers’ budgets, bills of quantities, financial progress reports, valuations for work done and construction materials on site, and financial appraisals.
Additionally, reviewing and advising on contractor payment requests, conducting project inspections, monitoring the utilisation of mortgage facilities obtained from banks, resolving contractual disputes as they arise, participating in practical completion inspections, documenting the inspections, testing, and commissioning phases, and preparing final project accounts.
We discuss these quantity surveying services and how they apply to specific client types in the following sections:
Solutions for Individual Homeowners and Real Estate Property Developers
Prospective homeowners (people like you who have just purchased a piece of land and want to put up a stylish home for their family) and real estate property developers (those building for sale or rent) will highly benefit from customised construction cost advice and project-specific development management solutions.
For individual homeowners, we will review your construction plans, including all the necessary drawings and permits, and from that advise on the possible cost of the project. This includes accurate work measurement, detailed pricing and meticulous market research to understand the current prices of construction materials, components, and assemblies. This way, we ensure that your home design matches your available finances and can be constructed without running out of money.
We understand that property developers look beyond that and want to get an overall picture of how much it will cost to procure land, obtain financing, build and complete the projects, and sell the property at a given profit margin. A development budget, paired with feasibility studies and appraisals are ideal tool we will prepare for property developers to help them in realising a profitable project.
So, the mix of quantity surveying and construction project management services is tailored for homeowners and property developers.
As your quantity surveyor, we will perform the following duties to help you build within your budgets:
- Surveying the existing site conditions to establish the scope of work at the early stages for estimating and costing purposes.
- Developing the initial cost budget, preliminary cost, material prices, and specifications that fit the budget/quality.
- Cost feedback to help the architects and engineers design within the cost limits.
- Comparative costing for choosing economic designs/materials and components.
- Dilapidation surveys, establishment of the scope for renovation works, measurement and quantification for costing.
- Preparation of detailed bills of quantities and other tender documents.
- Advising on the choice of the methods for contractor selection (procurement) and the right contractual arrangements for the project.
- Participation in tender evaluation, negotiations and recommendation for contract award (contractor selection process).
- Surveying works in progress, valuing and advising on interim payments to be made to the contractor.
- Financial progress reporting during construction and appraisals to show the client the financial position of the project at a given time.
- Evaluating contractual claims as they arise and advising on their effect, including early warnings to rectify situations.
- Review of any variations, remeasurement of provisional items and assessment of fluctuations for final accounting purposes.
- Project closeout and final accounts preparation.
As your construction project manager, this role entails key services from the conceptualisation of a development, to design, implementation and commissioning. I have the training and capacity to offer the following:
- Development/preparation of the project concept note, including support in making stakeholder presentations.
- Undertaking feasibility study and appraisal covering the technical, engineering, environmental, social, economic, financial, legal, administrative and managerial aspects, among others.
- Project team structuring and the procurement of consultants and contractors.
- Value engineering and constructability reviews.
- Advise on financing structuring, development budgeting and cashflow forecasting.
- Developing a project implementation handbook to guide on critical project management issues such as roles and responsibilities of parties; communication planning; risk management; construction and contract administration; general administration and correspondences; variations; instructions; schedule and financial progress; safety, health and environmental issues; and quality control processes and procedures.
- Day-to-day development coordination from design to construction and occupation: conducting inspections; progress review meetings; and ensuring the project remains on schedule, budget and planned quality
You can reach out today, and we will help you build your home or your property for sale/rent without breaking your bank account.
Solutions for Banks and Other Financial Institutions
Financial institutions such as commercial banks, microfinance banks, SACCOs, and insurance agencies, among others, are beneficiaries of our quantity surveying and construction project management services. Construction work is an expensive undertaking, and most developers get financial assistance from banks to build.
Banks require these customers to submit bills of quantities, which are used as the basis for disbursement of the construction loans. We’ll help you with the preparation, costing, and pricing of the bills of quantities.
When banks issue you a construction loan, they are interested in tracking the usage of the funds to ensure that the disbursed money is going in the right course. Therefore, project valuations are required periodically, where the quantity surveyor certifies the value of the construction work done on site. This helps in tracking the usage of mortgage facilities by the banks.
When you engage us in your project, we will help you with the whole process to ensure that you get to build your project and the banks are furnished with the correct financial reporting to their satisfaction.
Contract and Commercial Management Solutions to Contractors
Contractors can maximise their profits and still deliver a quality project within the estimated construction period. As a quantity surveyor, the quantity surveyor’s commercial knowledge and contract management skills are valuable in running a profitable construction business.
When you engage us as your contract and commercial managers, we’ll help with the following:
- Building up contractors’ all-in construction rates for competitively pricing tenders and winning bids.
- Procurement section and monitoring development of the design in a design-build arrangement where the contractor is the lead.
- Preparing the value of work done and materials on site reports for making timely applications for payment from the client.
- Managing subcontractors, including their recruitment, progress monitoring and control, and advising on the processing of their payments.
- Preparing cash flow forecasts to advise the management on the availability of financial resources for executing the project.
- Negotiating the terms and conditions of construction contracts and advising the contractor on their interpretation and application during the construction period.
- Assessing and advising on the pricing of variations and fluctuations.
- Handling all contractual correspondence and vetting the health, safety and environmental submissions from subcontractors’ compliance and syncing with the main contractor’s plans.
- Sourcing projects, identifying tendering opportunities, and preparing and submitting bids for evaluation.
- Coordinating and liaising with the consultants in the project, including representing the interests of the contractor in progress review meetings
Construction is a risky business. The financial risks of the possibility of making huge losses if the costs are not accurately estimated will impact the capacity of the contractor to do other projects, or lead to stalling of the project. When a project stalls, revenue is lost by both developers and the contractor.
Also, other jobs for construction workers are adversely affected. We will help you avoid all these hurdles by performing the functions earlier listed as our bespoke contract and commercial management solutions to contractors and subcontractors.
Solutions for Other Quantity Surveyors and Architects
Additionally, we serve other built environment professionals too, with either help in quantity surveying, cost, contract, and commercial management work for their clients, or digital transformation support for the firms switching to Building Information Modelling.
The digital transformation support solutions involve helping businesses and independent consultants leverage the transformative power of digital technologies to automate manual repetitive business operations and build resilient business systems to stay both locally and globally competitive.
It includes the following services and solutions:
- Supporting the firm’s involvement in BIM (Building Information Modelling) projects: capturing Employer’s Information Requirements (EIR); developing a BIM Execution Plan (BIM) and a Model Content Plan that communicates the QS information requirements to the other project consultants; managing communication and technical coordination with the consultant BIM Manager and supporting model-based quantity extraction and cost data validation.
- CADD (Computer-Aided Design & Drafting) and BIM Software training and implementation support. Training and step-by-step tutorials on ArchiCAD, Microsoft Project, Excel Automation, and custom BIM object libraries development.
- Digital construction marketing: building a reputable web and social media professional presence – website development and maintenance; creating educational blog content and social media content.
- Supporting business model diversification through e-commerce and edtech. Propose innovative ways to supplement traditional revenue-generating activities with the creation/sale of mentorship/coaching programs, masterclasses, client-educating digital content, and digital products for long-term passive income generation.
Conclusion
With experience and expertise in construction cost management, we are rightly equipped to handle all manner of construction projects, including but not limited to residential houses, housing estates, apartments, office blocks, commercial real estate properties, educational centres, religious developments, interior fit-outs, refurbishments, carparks, among other building and civil engineering projects.
We are ready to take on your projects. Please reach out to me through (+254) 728 457 303, or email at hello@nzangimuimi.com. I am excited to walk step by step with you in the process of achieving your dreams of developing property in Kenya.