Appointing a quantity surveyor early in a construction project improves cost certainty, supports better design decisions, and reduces financial risk.

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When starting a building project it is always the developer or home owner's greatest desire to have a handle on the final cost. After all, the developer wants to be sure of his returns and the home owner wants to know that he can afford what he is planning. There are many ways to get close to this and have tight control over the process. Appointing a Quantity Surveyor can be one of the most important decisions you make and at SBDS we typically save our clients the (+/--) 5

In order to have, you must want. In order to hold, you need control. To gain control you need our help The cost is given in South African Rand, and based on historic information where SBDS Quanity Surveyors Western Cape was appointed as construction cost controllers. We set the original budgets based on historic information gain from past projects and then control the cost by guiding the architects during the design process to be cost sensitive. Owners are warned of design c