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Operating as MBM Consulting Ltd, this division has successfully delivered innovative solutions for many of the world’s leading companies in construction, civil engineering and other related industries. Our work on projects such as railway lines, airports, underground stations, gas storage facilities, tunnels, motorways, bridges, commercial builds and other major structures, has provided us with a wide array of clients ranging from contactors and consultancies, to developers, public bodies or legal firms.

Offices:

  • Tunbridge Wells, Kent
  • London, England
  • Co Roscommon, Ireland

Specialisation:
Project and construction consulting, including but not limited to claims preparation, and planning & commercial management services. MBM Consulting have specialist experience in the NEC and UK building forms of contract. Most of the services provided are in the UK with recent assignments in Muscat, Oman, and Scandinavian countries. MBM have also recently provided a critical path programming risk review of one of SiVEST’s current projects in Durban, South Africa.

  • Project commercial management
  • Contract and procurement management
  • Programme and scheduling
  • Claim facilitation and resolution
  • Conflict adjudication
  • Arbitration
  • Expert witness

Contact details:
Office address: 201 Borough High Street, London, SE1 1JA

Phone: +44 203 817 7691
Email: admin@mbmconsult.com

Services

Services include:

  • Extension of time claims
  • Prolongation claims
  • Disruption claims

Our team brings experience, commercial acumen, contractual insight and a successful track record in principally adjudication but also arbitration proceedings.

Services include:

  • Preparing adjudication referrals
  • Acting on behalf of clients in adjudication proceedings
  • Party representation when defending claims in adjudication proceedings
  • Provision of expert opinion and reports
  • Acting as expert witness
  • Preparation of arbitration pleadings and statement of case for claimant and respondent
  • Preparation of position statement for mediation and party representation
  • Preparation of pre-action prospectus reports

Our team of expert witnesses are experienced professionals with expertise to help ensure the financial outlay of obtaining expert opinion is used productively.

Expertise:

  • Delay Analysis and Forensic Planning
  • Quantum Claims
  • Quantity Surveying Matters
  • Negligence Related Matters
  • Pre-action expert opinion on case strengths / weaknesses
  • Expert Witness reports / opinion for Litigation, Arbitration, Adjudication and Mediation incl. cross examination
  • Shadow Expert Appointments
  • Single Joint Expert Appointments
  • Court Appointed Expert
  • Advisory Expert

Our team aims to improve value, reduce cost, and identify and manage risk to ensure efficient and satisfactory project delivery.

Services include:

  • Commercial review and value for money audits
  • Final account preparation
  • Cost management
  • Cash flow analysis
  • Change management
  • Cost reporting
  • Cost value reconciliations
  • Subcontractor accounts (preparation and evaluation)
  • Interim management and support
  • Ensuring contract compliance (e.g. notices / procedures)
  • Implementing commercial systems
  • Project record keeping

Our contract and procurement services are provided to both employer and contracting organisations working in the building, civil engineering, infrastructure, rail, energy and related industries. We can provide pre-contract services along with specialist advice. This aims to ensure a seamless procurement route is adopted whilst supported by contract documents that protect the relative parties’ positions.

Services include:

  • Budget estimating
  • Cost planning
  • Feasibility studies
  • Preparation of contract documents
  • Bid management and support
  • Procurement advice
  • Investment appraisals
  • Contract vetting, review and drafting
  • Preparation of tenders
  • Tender appraisal
  • Subcontract letting
  • Programming
  • Tender programmes

Our team has extensive practical experience, which combined with our legal and contractual knowledge enables us to provide a high quality, responsive and cost-effective planning service. Our planning services are tailored to specific requirements for employers and contracting organisations working in the building, civil engineering, infrastructure, rail, energy and related industries. We have extensive experience and can utilise most of the principal planning software such as Primavera, Asta, MS Project etc.

Services include:

  • Tender programme preparation
  • Programme risk management
  • Contract programme preparation (i.e. ICheme Clause 13 programmes, ECC Clause 31 programmes)
  • Programme maintenance / updating
  • Progress monitoring and target project progress auditing
  • Evaluation of project change
  • Preparation of time related effects of ECC compensation events

Our team are equipped with an array of skills, expertise, and experiences to assist clients in making informed decisions from inception to completion. We work with our clients to provide a seamless, cost effective and dependable quantity surveying service for projects of all sizes and in all industry sectors.

Services include:

  • Budget estimating / Cost planning
  • Preparation of contract documents
  • Bid management and support
  • Procurement advice
  • Investment appraisals
  • Contract vetting, review and drafting
  • Preparation of tenders
  • Tender appraisal
  • Subcontract letting
  • Account preparation and management
  • Change management
  • Cost and contractual advice

Our team can help improve the fortunes of failing projects. They have many years of commercial management, general management and legal expertise. Our services can be utilised by contractors, subcontractors, employers, insurance companies, accountants, insolvency practitioners and turnaround managers.

  • Design and building cost control
  • Fee management
  • Training
  • Research
  • Management consulting
  • Risk management

Recent Projects

Xinavane Refinery EPCM project, Mozambique

Simunye Power House Upgrade Eswatini

Point Noire Woodchip Facility – EPCM, Republic of Congo

Nakambala Sugar Factory and Agriculture Expansion – EPCM, Zambia

Maragra Pumpstation for smallholder sugarcane development, Mozambique

Industrial Plant, Zambia