Building Contractors Since 1987
Questions & Answers
Estimates, tenders, contracts and hire.
Estimates & Rates
It works from our current rates per square metre for each build type and finish level, plus preliminaries (12%) and contingency (7.5%). Treat it as a first figure within about 8% either way; a tender prices your drawings.
The building itself, our site set-up and management (preliminaries) and a contingency. Land, fees for planning and your own consultants, furniture and sales tax are not.
A brownfield site adds 7% for remediation and an urban infill site 12% for tight access and timed deliveries.
Yes: 2% for every storey above 2, for cranage, hoists and the longer programme.
Tenders & Contracts
We return a priced tender within 10 working days of receiving complete drawings, and visit the site within 3.
Yes. Design and build is one contract: we take on the design team and the design risk for a fee of 6%.
Drawings at whatever stage they are, the site address, a target start date and a budget range. The tender form asks for all of it.
10% on signing, then a payment as each phase is complete: foundation 20%, frame 30%, envelope 25%, handover 15%.
On Site
Monday to Friday 7 am to 6 pm and Saturday 8 am to 1 pm; never on Sundays or public holidays.
Our site emergency line answers day and night: +1 312 555 0190.
Every worker is inducted, every task has its permit and PPE, and every Monday starts with a toolbox talk at 7 am.
Plant & Tool Hire
By the day, or by the week when that is cheaper: a week costs three days' hire. Safety gear is sold, not hired.
Yes: a refundable deposit on each machine, returned when it comes back undamaged. A damage waiver of 8% is added to the hire.
Delivery and collection within 10 miles is $90, 10 to 25 miles $150; collecting from the depot is free.
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