Artis Quantity Surveyors Seeks To Be A Trusted Advisor In The Built Environment Industry Across Africa
Artis Quantity Surveyors Seeks To Be A Trusted Advisor In The Built Environment Industry Across Africa. Artis Quantity Surveyors is a boutique quantity surveying and dispute resolution consultancy based in Johannesburg with associate offices in Zambia and Zimbabwe. Its vision is to be a trusted advisor to project owners in the built environment across the African continent, partnering with them to deliver cost-effective buildings and infrastructure.
The company is a professional services firm in the built-environment sector dedicated to ensuring that project owners set appropriate budgets, control construction costs and derive long-term value from their assets. Its Quantity Surveying services include: Estimating building costs and feasibility studies, Preparation of bills of quantities and procurement documentation and Contract administration Final accounts.
Artis Quantity Surveyors offers an accredited mediation service to the property, construction and engineering sectors. Its expertise in this field is assured, with its executive director being part of the prestigious RICS President’s Panel of Mediators. Mediation holds a number of advantages for parties to a dispute, especially where the mediator is a subject-matter expert: It is a private process which avoids the public airing of any personal matters and the terms of the settlement are usually confidential. Mediation does not require legal representation, which makes it a much cheaper method of dispute resolution. Mediation is a more creative process as it is not bound by legalities and can accommodate the needs of each party in reaching a settlement.
The company is able to review technical reports, agreements, cash-flow projections and payments on behalf of project funders in order to ensure that their interests are protected. Part of its offering is an audit report, advising clients on the adequacy of procedures employed during a project’s lifetime in comparison to best practice. In collaboration with other built-environment professionals, it is able to prepare detailed reports based on the survey of a building’s structure, fabric and services, which assists property owners with maintenance planning and budgeting. It offers its clients reinstatement valuations of fixed improvements for insurance purposes. Ideally, this should be carried out on an annual basis so that escalation in construction costs is taken into account.
