Case studies
Real jobs for housebuilders and contractors, anonymised. What we found, when we found it, and what it would likely have cost to put right if it had been found the usual way: on site, after it was built.
£99,000 potential saving
A 200-300 plot scheme for a national housebuilder. Kerb build-outs sat across falling channels with no gully on the uphill side. Fixed on the drawings for an £1,800 audit: a 55x return.
Every figure is a potential saving: the estimated cost of putting the problem right at the stage it would normally have been found, less what it cost to fix at the stage we found it. We show how each number is worked out, label estimates as estimates, and leave out costs we can't stand behind, such as programme delay, so the figures you see are the conservative ones.
Clients and sites are never named. Plans are simplified redrawings, not project drawings.
We estimate what each problem would have cost to put right at the point it would normally have been found, such as after the road was surfaced or after homes were occupied, using typical UK rates for labour, plant, materials, surfacing and traffic management. We then take off what the fix cost at the stage we found it. The result is shown as a potential saving because the later work never had to happen.
Our reports are confidential to the client. Each case study is anonymised: no company, site name, location, drawing numbers or plot numbers, and any plans are simplified redrawings rather than project drawings.
Send the drawing, the location and when you need it. We reply the same working day with a fixed price.