We deliver a wide range of professional services across the North and Midlands through our team of experts. Find out more details about the services we provide below:

Quantity Surveying

As quantity surveyors, we are responsible for the cost control of clients’ building projects – from the initial estimates, right through to the agreement of the final account. Surveying commissions and their associated roles are varied – but WCP surveyors are focused on providing clients with value for money while adhering to the strict regulations which govern every aspect of the modern construction industry and our regulated service provision.

With extensive knowledge of the industry, our quantity surveyors are highly skilled in providing a wealth of services including, among others:

  • Professional feasibility studies and budget estimates
  • Cost planning
  • Value engineering/management
  • Risk management
  • Preparation of Tender Documentation (e.g. Bills of Quantities and Schedules of Work/Work Schedules)
  • Preparation of contract documents
  • Cash flow forecasting, interim valuations and stage payments
  • Claims resolution
  • Agreement of final accounts

Encompassing traditional and bespoke procurement, our surveyors are available to provide full cost advice and service ensuring the delivery of value throughout the project from inception to settlement of the final account.

As our quantity surveyors are professionally qualified experts across all sectors of the construction industry with educational, housing, public, and private sector experience, you can be assured that we will fulfil all your quantity surveying needs and expectations.

If you wish to discuss any aspect of our services, please drop us a line on the “Contact Us” page and we will contact you.

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Employer’s Agent

As Employer’s Agents, we oversee and manage all aspects of our clients’ building projects, ensuring smooth coordination and compliance with regulations throughout the construction process. Our specialised services focus on delivering value and ensuring the efficient execution of projects within the constraints of the modern construction industry.

With a detailed and in-depth understanding of the industry, our team of Employer’s Agents offer a comprehensive range of services, including but not limited to:

  • Conducting professional feasibility studies and providing budget estimates
  • Developing cost plans
  • Implementing value engineering/management strategies
  • Risk Management
  • Drafting tender and contract Documentation
  • Managing project expenditure, forecasting cash flow
  • Resolving claims and disputes
  • Finalising project accounts

Our approach encompasses various procurement methods tailored to the project, allowing us to provide comprehensive cost advice and services that ensure value throughout the project lifecycle, from inception to the settlement of the final account.

Our team of Employer’s Agents consists of qualified professionals with extensive experience across diverse construction sectors, including education, housing, public, and private sectors, and we are equipped to meet and exceed your expectations for Employer’s Agent services.

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Building Surveying

Our experienced Surveyors offer advice on many aspects of design and construction, including life cycles, maintenance and repair, restoration, conservation and preservation. Our Chartered Building Surveyors are experts in negotiating Dilapidation assessments for a range of Landlords and Tenants regionally and offer professional advice on leasehold repair matters.

On behalf of the Client, our Building Surveyors can handle all regulatory and legislative compliance matters such as; planning applications and building regulations, providing professional, impartial advice on property legislation and much more.

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Principal Designer

Health and Safety stands as a critical priority for our clients. Within our organisation, our Health and Safety Team has expanded significantly in recent years and has a wealth of expertise in health and safety practices, specifically tailored to the demand of the modern construction industry, with extensive knowledge of the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 (CDM 2015).

Our Health and Safety Team are incorporated members of the APS and hold NEBOSH qualifications and are supported by a team of qualified Health & Safety consultants. WCP has corporate membership of the APS as well as CHAS accreditation, demonstrating our competence and commitment to excellence.

We use our knowledge and practical experience to offer strategic advice on health and safety matters during the pre and post-contract phases, ensuring clients understand and comply with the relevant legislation.

Recognised as adept CDM professionals by our clients, our team can provide CDM awareness and principal designer training, catering to both clients and designers alike.

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CDM + Health & Safety

In the ever-changing workplace health and safety is paramount and with this, our health and safety department has grown.

We have a dedicated team of health and safety consultants operating from each of our two offices with a wealth of health and safety knowledge and experience relating to all construction activities and, in particular the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 (CDM 2015) .

Both our Health & Safety Director and our Health & Safety Consultants have dual professional memberships of chartered construction and health and safety institutions including CIOB and MIOSH as well as NEBOSH, NVQ, and City & Guilds qualifications.

Our senior consultants and professionally qualified principal designers use their vast knowledge and experience to advise on strategic health and safety issues in addition to all aspects of health and safety in construction during the pre-construction phase and acting as principal designers under the 2015 CDM Regulations.

As recognised CDM professionals among our clients, our specialist team of health and safety consultants is often called upon to provide CDM awareness and principal designer training for clients and designers alike.

If you have a health and safety issue you wish to discuss, or if you have identified areas within your health and safety provisions in connection with any of your construction activities that you feel would benefit from specialist advice or training please use the “Contact Us” page and we will be more than happy to assist.

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Cost Management

We are proud to be able to deliver and advice on residential projects, from inception to completion covering all aspects of the development process. Feasibility and options appraisals, pre and post contract project management, land, package deal and section 106 negotiations.

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Project Management

Whatever the complexity of your project, whether we are acting as either dedicated project managers or lead consultant on a “one-stop shop” approach, we have a wide range of services that can be adapted to meet the demands of your particular scheme, including:

  • Preparing project plans;
  • Objectives and Communication Strategies;
  • Planning and Master planning;
  • Supply chain management (encompassing design management);
  • Progress, quality and risk management;
  • Building & Maintaining team relationships.

Our team of project managers have extensive experience of all aspects of project management including selecting the most successful consultancy team, budgeting, planning, programming, and methods of procurement and will be available to manage your construction projects from the very start right through to completion.

If you wish to discuss any aspect of our services, please drop us a line on the “Contact Us” page and we will get in touch with you.

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Project Monitoring

Wilkinson Cowan Partnership has a team of experienced project monitoring surveyors and expert witnesses which is commonly appointed by banks or other funding institutions to advise on the risks of acquiring an interest in a development.

The Project Monitoring surveyors here at Wilkinson Cowan Partnership have many years’ experience in this particular construction service for some of the leading investment banks on private residential schemes, and the expansion and future-proofing of a privately- owned end-of-life care home for sick children.

Our project monitoring surveyors will advise on:

  • Land and property acquisition matters
  • Statutory consents
  • Competency of the developer, its team and any proposed project management systems
  • Financial appraisals
  • Development, finance, consultancy and construction agreements
  • Construction costs and cash-flow forecasts
  • Design and construction quality
  • Site progress against the development programme and completion dates
  • Prepare or comment on interim applications for payment
  • Approve capital draw-downs from the funding institutions
  • Advise on the programme and cost implications of proposed variations
  • The validity of any contractual claims that might arise

If you wish to discuss any aspect of our services, please drop us a line on the “Contact Us” page and we will contact you.

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Procurement Advice

The Practice was an early user of the 2012 Construction Commitments and PPC2000 Contract and has developed its commitment to partnering and ‘Egan Compliance’ in all aspects of the construction process.

We also have experience of bespoke forms of alliancing contracts, ECI procurement and the NEC form of contract.

Wilkinson Cowan Partnership can proudly boast a few formal and informal partnering arrangements in many fields of construction activity with both local and national clients.

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Access Consultancy

Practical advice and solutions from our NRAC registered consultants to ensure you are delivering accessible developments and meeting your legal obligations under the 2010 Equality Act. We can work with you through all stages of your project and provide maintenance plans for the future.

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Expert Witness

Our in-house Expert Witness surveyors are experienced, highly skilled and qualified in Building Surveying.

At WCP our Experts have the experience to provide ‘weight’ to our facts, assumptions and opinions in our Part 35 Compliant Expert Witness reports (also known as CPR 35 Compliant) for use by the court in making decisions around an area outside of its own expertise.

The principal duty of our Experts is to the court. Our building pathology knowledge underpins independent thinking which is not influenced by those who are instructing and ensures Expert evidence is objective and unbiased.

Our recent cases include issues relating to poor construction techniques, failure to maintain a property and confirmation of latent defect causation.

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