Cost Engineering Consulting
Consulting Services
- Estimates and budgets for construction
What is known as "base budgets", it is used by developers and owners to bid or award of contracts for work - Preliminary estimates
Used for pre-investment studies and as part of the process of budgeting a project - Quantity Surveying
It is the measurement of quantities of work projects - Ad-hoc databases
When an organization requires a cost database, specifically applicable to the work of the same
- Construction Cost control
It consists of conciliation or costs of catalog, extraordinary (change orders), escalation and studies of indirect cost for developers, governmental offices and owners - Replacement Value for Appraisals
Complex buildings, complements the work of the appraisers in the approach of physical value or replacement - Opinions and audit costs
In disputes, and as a re-establishing rules on costs, prices and quantifications - Cost Re-Engineerings
This is the radical redesign or rearrangement cost Engineering function within organizations
Varela InC and Intercost Estimating Projects:
- Call Center Santander, Querétaro (Estudio Lamela).
- Campeche Playa, Golf, Marina & SPA Resort (M+A, Mall, Hogalia)
- 900 Condo-Resorts en Cruz de Huanacastle, Puebla, Cancún y Rosarito (ICON Group)
- Theatre-Opera and Arts School at Poliforum Cultural, León, Gto. (Augusto Quijano Ars)
- Conjunto Nubia – K-SA de 163 apartment Social interest
- Post Wilma hurricane Reconstruction Costs: 8 Palace Hotels on the Caribbean
- Rincón del Bosque Condos (Hasbani)
- Nuevo Senate Building (Banobras, Muñoz Arqs)
- Teatro Queretaro (Teodoro González de León – starting)
Innovations
English-spanish Construction Pre-Estimates
Construction Cost Engineering services innovations that offers our Company, have allowed to elaborate Pre-Estimates with descriptions optionally in Spanish or English language, applying the Assembly/Systems Method, specially for English speaking investors projects whom they have asked for initial Estimates for feasibility analysis or when the first drafts are being taken and a reasonably sustained and reliable Pre-Estimates are required. This service already has been used successfully in hotel and residential projects.
Construction Costs Reengineering
The purpose of this service that Varela Inc offers, is to establish criteria,methods, standards and procedures for Cost Engineering that construction organizations and developers, applicable internal and externally (Contractors and bidders), intending standardizing reports, codes and data for construction Estimates.
Varela’s Cost Engineering definition is “The art of applying scientific and empiric knowledge for making the more realistic conjectures and Estimate the amount of construction costs and its control during job”; for Reengineering, we understand a radical process redesign of an organization.
We prepare a regulation document for:
- Materials, labor, services
- Intermediate or Auxiliary concepts (mortar, forming)
- Equipment hourly costs
- Concepts of work (line items)
- Bill of quantities
- Pre-Estimates
- Job cost control