Melbourne, Victoria
Commercial Construction Estimating in Melbourne and Victoria
Costimate is a Melbourne construction estimating and quantity surveying consultancy. We measure bills of quantities, trade takeoffs and cost plans for commercial builders and developers. Drawings in Monday, priced bill back in ten business days. 8 years. 500+ BoQs, cost plans and full estimates. $4.5B in tenders.
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BoQs, cost plans and estimates, last eighteen months
Practice
8 years. 500+ BoQs, cost plans and full estimates. $4.5B in tenders.
Measured
Bills of quantities, trade takeoffs, cost plans
Turnaround
Ten business days, typical
Engaged as
Lump sum, design and construct, ECI, cost planning
Software
Cubit, CostX, Mudshark, Planswift, Bluebeam
Melbourne is where the practice started and where most of the record sits. A commercial builder here sends the issued drawing set. We send back a bill priced trade by trade, with every assumption written down.
Who calls us
Commercial builders, developers and subcontractors pricing work across Melbourne and Victoria.What arrives
A structured trade summary, clear breakups, returnable pricing schedules and clarification notes.
Melbourne and Victoria
Named work from the record. Values are bands, never exact figures, because an exact number publishes a client's commercial position for them. Awarded means the client won the job off our numbers.
Cremorne
SEEK Headquarters, commercial
$40M–$50M
Melton
Harkness Memorial Park, community, stage one
$40M–$50M
Awarded
Melbourne
Crowne Plaza, repositioning works
$30M–$40M
Awarded
Melbourne
Hester Hornbrook Academy, education
$20M–$30M
Melton South
Melton South Primary School, education
$20M–$30M
Huntly
Huntly Primary School, education
$10M–$15M
Melton
Kurunjang Secondary College, education
$10M–$15M
Awarded
Flinders Lane
Garden State Hotel, hospitality
$5M–$10M
Awarded
St Kilda Road
380 St Kilda Road, commercial
$5M–$10M
Awarded
One standard
Hester Hornbrook Academy is a $20M–$30M school in Melbourne. It was measured the same way a $5M–$10M commercial job is measured. Size changes the hours it takes, not the standard it is held to.
The ten day run
Ten business days is the typical run on a full measure.
Monday
Drawings in, tender date noted
01
First
Every document read, drawing set through to contract
02
Next
Measurement starts while the scope gaps are found
03
Early
The Estimating Manager raises the RFIs with your team
04
Throughout
Cubit, CostX, Mudshark, Planswift and Bluebeam
05
Before it leaves
Cross checked against our internal QS procedures
06
Ten business days
Priced bill out, set out trade by trade
07
After
Addendums, quotes and post tender support
08
The ladder
Nothing leaves without the Estimating Manager's cross check.
The question a builder is really asking is whether a junior priced the job. The answer is a named escalation path, not a promise. Every measure moves up it.
Assume nothing. Believe no one. Check everything.
Four steps, every measure
01
Junior estimator
Takeoff against the issued set, package by package, under supervision.
02
Estimator
Quantities built into the bill and set out trade by trade.
03
Senior estimator
Rates, scope gaps, and the questions that have to go back to your team.
04
Estimating Manager
Cross checked against our internal QS procedures for consistency and accuracy.
Victorian schools
Three state school projects on the record. All three are education work outside the Melbourne CBD, and all three were priced off the issued set.
01Melton South Primary School, $20M–$30M
02Huntly Primary School, $10M–$15M
03Kurunjang Secondary College, $10M–$15M
Melton South Primary School under construction, photographed from above. $20M–$30M.
Left, Huntly Primary School. Right, Kurunjang Secondary College. Both are artist impressions of the proposed buildings, published by the Victorian School Building Authority, and neither is a photograph.
35 Monomeath Avenue, Canterbury. Artist impression published by The Permit Group, not a photograph.
Left, 380 St Kilda Road. Centre, SEEK Headquarters at Cremorne. Right, Garden State Hotel on Flinders Lane.
