Essential Energy / RDP / Cost Planning & Estimating Lead
- Establishing a structured and reliable source of construction project forecast costs, appropriate to the lifecycle phase, the role requires skills in both top-down structured cost planning, in addition to bottom-up estimating.
- To establish template cost plans and an in-house database of construction and other applicable capex costs, as well as establishing a guide to appropriate inclusion of risk allowances at various lifecycle phases.
- It is envisaged that the service provider will take a cost-planning approach to all cost forecasting, supplemented by quantity-based estimates only where appropriate and where suitable detailed documentation is available.
- Precedent external and in-house data should be blended strategically with design and site information to the extent it is available, to deliver a model that can be flexibly ‘statused’ and updated as new information comes to hand, without requiring an onerous update of all components of the estimate.
- Use of appropriate contingency allowances is required to be made in consultation with the broader project team.