Expertise

Cost Management / Quantity Surveying
Wardle Associates provide sound and traditional quantity surveying expertise complemented by modern computer technology which supports all our services. This includes estimating and pre-contract work, preparation of tender documentation, post-contract services, cost management and cost management reports.
Rigorous procedures ensure that costs are controlled within budget, providing clients with certainty of final costs, together with up-to-date knowledge of the project and its financial status whenever required.
Established quantity surveying procedures are applied consistently, with reports delivered in a format and frequency as best meets client needs.
Design & Build / PPP / PFI / DBFO
Wardle Associates service in this sector is designed to be flexible and adaptable to meet the exacting requirements of individual projects and organisations.
We provide acomprehensive project solution service from feasibility to contract completion. We adapt to our client's needs – working as a part of, or separate from, client teams.
Whole Life & Life Cycle Costing
Consideration of whole life costs at the inception of a project can significantly enhance its ultimate value. Costs-in-use studies assess the implications of design decisions.
Life cycle costing looks at life expectancy of key elements and offers comparative cost consequences of component selection.
Legal Support Services
Individual Directors and Staff are thoroughly experienced in providing an expert witness service. Expert witness investigations and subsequent expert witness reports comply with Civil Procedure Rules and are prepared in accordance with the RICS guidance.
Should disputes occur, Wardle Associates provide adjudication services, project audit, insolvency advice, expert witness and dispute resolution services.
We are fully experienced and understand the benefits of conciliation and mediation, leading to timely and positive settlements of disputes.
Project Management
Wardle Associates provide a total project management and program management service for all types of construction and engineering projects which require effective coordination to ensure a quality assured completion on time and within budget.
Project Audit
We provide a systematic and thorough review of the physical and financial progress of a project on a continuous basis from inception and onward throughout the development process.
Wardle Associates are regularly called upon by clients to review their projects when client concerns arise.
We are often then commissioned to take responsibility for the onward management of their projects in terms of both project and cost management, so ensuring that our client's best interest is safeguarded.
Risk Assessment & Management
Potential risks are identified at the earliest possible opportunity so that the most appropriate and timely solutions can be foreseen and implemented.
Identification, evaluation and management of risk is an ongoing activity designed to significantly reduce the likelihood of unforeseen factors impacting upon the project.
Value Engineering
Using workshop based methodology, we utilise value management techniques together with value engineering to obtain optimum value by the delivery of objectives in the most cost-effective manner.