Civil engineering · Newport

The figures should be as careful as the ground.

Estimating, bills of quantities, procurement, tendering, quantity surveying and project management for civil engineering works. An independent practice led by Jamie Martin, working for clients and contractors on groundworks, drainage, highways, utilities and infrastructure packages across South Wales and the Bristol region.

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Director: Jamie Martin
Established: 2021
Company: 13286658
Base: Rogerstone, Newport

What the practice does

Estimating

Order-of-cost and pretender estimates for earthworks, drainage, highways and utilities packages, with the assumptions, exclusions and ground risks written down.

Bills of quantities

Pricing documents structured to CESMM4 or the Highways Method of Measurement so a contractor can price the work that is drawn, and a later variation can hang on it.

Procurement

A route that matches the ground risk, the programme and who should hold the design on civil packages — main contract or separate packages.

Tendering

Documents issued cleanly, queries logged, and returns compared like for like. A low return that has excluded temporary works or traffic management is not the low return.

Quantity surveying

Valuations, change and a final account for civil works that still resembles the contract. Measured against what was priced, not against the loudest voice on site.

Project management

One person holding the programme, the decisions and the commercial thread on infrastructure and civil engineering packages.

Scale, paper, and a number you can trace. The practice works from the drawing, the sections and the measure — particularly where ground conditions, temporary works and linear quantities drive the cost.

Selected experience

All project notes

Five projects. The sector changes — special education, heritage, healthcare, a school sports hall and a low-carbon energy centre — and so does the commercial problem.

How the work is done

Read the drawing and the ground

The budget is a sentence. The sections and the borehole logs are the work. The estimate starts from what is actually shown, and from what is still unknown.

Write the assumptions

Every figure leaves the office with a list of inclusions, exclusions and the ground risks still sitting with someone.

Tender what can be priced

Documents a contractor can measure against — temporary works, traffic management, disposal and haulage called out rather than buried.

Hold it through the job

Valuations, change and a final account that a person who was not in the room can still follow.