Fanshawe recruit staff from diverse disciplines bringing together individuals with complementary skills, proven management ability and a pro-active approach. As each Client and every project is unique, we are committed to bringing flexibility and freshness of thought to the construction team, together with a full and thorough understanding of building procurement. To achieve each projects individual objectives, we take a pro-active role throughout the feasibility, design and construction processes.
Fanshawe provide an independent and professional project management service to plan, lead, organise and control the management of projects from inception to reality. Recognised as a practice that provides a hands-on and proactive management and consultancy service, Fanshawe employ highly skilled and dedicated project managers from a broad range of professional disciplines offering experience across a range of sectors.
Fanshawe have the in-house skills and relevant market experience to recognise potential and define project objectives from the outset, whilst also ensuring the delivery of value and appropriate management of risk throughout the project life cycle.
Our project management services can be tailored to suit the needs of individual clients and projects. Services offered include: Client’s Representative; Design Management; Value and Risk Management; Programming and Planning; Project Monitoring and Construction Consultancy.
Fanshawe work with Clients to select and manage the appointment of the other consultants required. This includes offering advice on the various methods of selection and the agreement of their formal appointment document, schedule of services and fees.
The expansion of our project management service over the past twenty years has been built upon the quality of the service offered to both new and existing clients and our ability to deliver complex construction projects to time and on budget on a consistent basis.
For more than six decades Fanshawe has provided expert cost consultancy services on construction projects with a wealth of experience.
Fanshawe is a medium size consultancy, with an established track record of working with many new and existing properties and structures, many involving complex solutions and special consideration. Our knowledge and experience of this wide range of work enables us to understand the key requirements of our clients and resolve the likely issues that may occur. We endeavour to understand how our Clients run their organisations and assist in delivering long term solutions that meet the Client's requirements, whilst always providing value.
Fanshawe employs people with a wide range of business skills – including cost consultants, risk and value management, capital allowances and building services cost consultants.
We take a very “hands-on” approach to the challenges presented on each project. By listening and responding to the demands of our Clients we tailor our services to meet their needs. Our success is based on analysing our Clients’ objectives and then combining practical industry knowledge with the energy, skill, lateral thinking and the level of commitment necessary for each task.
Due to their importance, it is essential to have a detailed understanding of building services which is why Fanshawe add significant value to projects through our specialist in-house, highly motivated building services surveyors, who with their knowledge of building services can challenge design solutions to generate significant cost savings at no detriment to the design solution.
As a practice we believe in setting realistic budgets. Using industry standard pricing mechanisms linked to our in-house database of building services costs, enables us to produce detailed and accurate estimates based on relevant historic data.
Building services, in recent years, have become increasingly complex and critical and, with issues such as Parts L & P of the Building Regulations and BREEAM, Well, LEED and the like, will continue to have major implications on construction processes and costs. Our direct project experience includes considering renewable energy options such as air source and ground source heating and cooling, photovoltaics, solar water heating, biomass boilers, combined heat and power, wind generation, thermal stores, rainwater recovery and the like.
We also add value in a number of other ways during the pre-contract stage. This includes a detailed review of building services engineers’ tender documents to ensure that items within the estimate have been included and highlighting any discrepancies or ambiguities in the documents, so minimising the potential for contractors' claims.
We produce our own tender documents, which provides greater cost certainty for post contract variations, and thoroughly examine tender returns to identify exclusions and caveats. We ultimately agree fair final accounts, rather than inflated costs due to a lack of in-house expertise.
Whilst our specialist building services surveyors work as part of the team they also provide an independent building services quantity surveying service to contractors and other consultants who lack the necessary in-house expertise to offer the specialist cost advice to their clients. If you require more information on the building services quantity surveying service offered by Fanshawe please contact Martin Norburn.
Risk Management is a planned and systematic process based on:
- Identification
- Assessment / analysis
- Control / mitigation
- Monitoring and managing
Services offered include:
- Risk process development / audit
- Risk Management
- Qualified Risk Analysis
- Risk Management awareness courses
Why undertake Risk Management?
Uncertainty translates into risks that need to be controlled. Ignore them and you play chance with the project objectives, be it cost, safety, quality or end-user functionality
It is regrettable that on occasion disputes can arise with building projects. When these occur it is essential that timely assistance and competent input is applied so that all of the options available are fully considered.
Our experience in matching our response to the Client needs is reflected in the high profile work that we have been involved with. Disputes that we have assisted with include Mediation, Adjudication, Planning Inquiry, Legal Action.
Calling on many years of experience, Fanshawe offer a Reinstatement Cost Assessment service to many clients, including other firms of surveyors. In the past few years, Fanshawe, have valued property throughout the United Kingdom and Europe to a cumulative current value in excess of £13 billion.
Our rigorously developed and field tested in-house systems, together with competent and experienced surveyors, enables a rapid and accurate response to the often last minute requirements of property owners, portfolio managers, investment managers and others for an accurate assessment to be prepared. Fanshawe understand, and brokers appreciate, the importance of reliable and accurate reinstatement cost advice.Fanshawe do not compromise on the service provided. Over or under insured property is a major and avoidable risk and an expense that is often overlooked. We often find that major properties are either woefully under insured or significantly over assessed.
Fanshawe have assessed a wide range of buildings ranging from single dwellings or retail outlets to large complex office and Shopping Centres, as well as Football Stadia, University Campuses and Museums.
