A construction project is a system of contracts, people, deadlines, costs, technical decisions and risks. We help employers, contracting authorities and asset owners set that system up, run it, and bring it safely to completion.
We come in where technical expertise, contractual certainty, financial control and hands-on construction management have to work together: making sure the brief makes sense, the tender is run transparently, the works have clear rules, and completion is more than an administrative formality.
We help turn an investment intention into a finished structure — built well, on time, on fair terms, and with the risks under control.
Our services cover the entire lifecycle of a construction project. In preparation, we help set the brief, the documentation, the budget, the contractual conditions and the data environment. During tendering, we support a transparent and technically sound procedure. During construction, we manage the contractual, time, cost, technical and administrative side of the works. At completion, we help close out Variations, claims, documentation, finances and the handover itself.
This is not box-ticking against a task list. We treat the project as a whole — from the contract, through the programme, to the decisions taken on site every day.
The Engineer is the decisive role on projects where the Employer needs to stay in control of delivery. We represent the Employer under the contractual conditions, coordinate the parties to the works, monitor performance of obligations, and support decisions in situations that affect time, cost, quality or the Employer's contractual position.
On site we are not merely an administrator. We are the expert partner that connects what physically happens on the works with the contract, the programme, the budget and the Employer's decision-making. The result is that the investor knows what is actually going on, what each step will cost, and where risk is building up.
In practice: we lead and coordinate the Engineer's team, prepare determinations and instructions, monitor progress of the works, assess Variations, evaluate claims and keep the project aligned with the contract. On projects governed by FIDIC, we perform the role in accordance with the applicable conditions of contract.
Contract management brings together administration of the construction contract, the contractual administration of the works, and change control including Variations. It also covers the recording and continuous assessment of claims, management of contractual correspondence, and monitoring of the programme and the cost.
Our specialists monitor performance of the contract, flag risks early, and prepare the evidence a contracting authority needs in order to decide. The effect is a project that stays under contractual, time and cost control, with issues resolved early, transparently and on a documented basis.
A claim is how one contracting party asserts an entitlement to an extension of time or to additional payment arising from events during construction. Left unmanaged, claim administration turns very quickly into an unmanageable problem with consequences for the whole project.
We help identify, record, analyse and assess claims on their merits. We examine their contractual, time, technical and financial dimensions together. The objective is not to create a dispute — it is to name the problem early, quantify its impact, and find a resolution that is fair and defensible.
In practice: we assess claims as submitted, carry out delay analysis of the construction period, prepare expert opinions, quantify time and financial impacts, maintain the claim register, and support negotiation between the parties.
Delay management is the discipline of running the time dimension of a project actively rather than reconstructing it afterwards: maintaining and interrogating the programme, identifying delay events as they occur, establishing cause and effect against the critical path, notifying entitlement within contractual time limits, and quantifying extension of time. Done during construction it protects the programme; done only at the end it becomes forensic delay analysis and a dispute. We do both — but we would rather do the first.
Construction management makes sense where the Employer or Client does not want to place the entire project with a single main contractor, or where several packages have to be coordinated. We plan, direct and monitor delivery so that trades follow on from one another, responsibilities are clear, and the works progress efficiently.
Our role is to keep the trade contractors aligned with the programme, the technical solution, quality, cost and operational constraints. The Employer or Client gains greater control over the course of the works and over the decisions that determine the result.
In practice: we plan and coordinate individual trade contractors, support the preparation of tenders for each package, monitor sequencing, resolve interface clashes, help manage the programme, and create the framework for efficient and timely delivery.
The cost of a project is not settled by a single budget at the outset. It moves with every Variation, every revision to the documentation, every shift in the programme and every decision the Employer or Client takes. Cost management is how those movements stay under control.
We review budgets, the Employer's cost estimates, Bills of Quantities, the pricing of Variations and financial claims. We test whether costs are reasonable, evidenced, and consistent with the contract and with the law. The Employer therefore has a clear view of where the project is going financially and can decide knowing the real consequences.
In practice: we check Bills of Quantities and schedules of works, review the Employer's cost estimates, verify the pricing of Variations and claims, prepare or revise Bills of Quantities, assess price adjustment and indexation, and help prevent uncontrolled growth in the contract price.
Cost management and quantity surveying are related but not the same thing, and on a contentious project the difference matters. Cost management is the strategic view: budget, cost plan, forecast at completion, cash flow, contingency. Quantity surveying is the measured, technical-commercial discipline underneath it: measurement, Bills of Quantities, valuation, the pricing of Variations, interim payments and the final account.
When a claim is disputed, the question is rarely whether an entitlement exists in principle — it is what it is worth. That is quantum: the measured quantity, the correct contractual rate, the substantiated value. We provide quantity surveying and quantum assessment as a service in its own right, whether you need a Bill of Quantities you can rely on, an independent valuation of a Variation, or a defensible quantification of a claim.
On complex projects a general recommendation is rarely enough. The Employer or Client needs to know whether the documentation is correctly prepared, whether the budget reflects reality, whether a tender carries hidden risk, whether a claim is well founded, and how to proceed when a situation becomes contentious.
Our expert services provide an independent view grounded in real experience of preparing, tendering and delivering construction works. We help clients decide on the basis of data, contractual rules and knowledge of construction practice.
In practice: we prepare expert opinions and analyses, review documentation and Bills of Quantities, draft and revise tender and contractual conditions, evaluate tenders including abnormally low tenders, analyse the course of construction, and prepare expert positions on time and financial claims.
Permitting services take an investment intention through the consenting process to the point where the works can be built, used and completed. We manage communication with the authorities concerned, parties to the proceedings, designers and other bodies whose opinions and decisions the project depends on.
On public and complex projects it matters that permitting and land acquisition steps are well managed, well documented and properly sequenced. We help clients avoid delays, ambiguity and administrative risk.
In practice: we assemble the evidence for planning and building permit proceedings, coordinate the statutory opinions of the authorities concerned, support land and property settlement, and handle changes to the works before completion, trial operation, early use permits and final building approval.
The Employer's technical supervision — TDS under Czech building law — confirms for the Employer or Client that the works are being executed to the required quality, economically, on time and in accordance with the design documentation, the contract, the applicable legislation and the relevant standards. It is what limits defects, errors, additional costs and later operational problems.
We supervise the quality of the works, monitor the statutory site diary, assess proposed Variations, and coordinate matters that may affect safety, the environment, fire protection, heritage protection or other public interests.
In practice: we inspect the execution of the works and deliveries, assess technical solutions and proposed Variations, monitor proper keeping of the statutory site diary, coordinate occupational health and safety, and verify that delivery matches the approved documentation and the contractual conditions.
Construction disputes rarely benefit from litigation. They are technical, they are contractual, and by the time a court reaches them the project has usually suffered more from the delay than from the dispute itself. Adjudication is the alternative that the FIDIC conditions themselves provide for: a qualified, independent third party who examines the dispute and issues a decision that binds the parties unless and until it is revisited.
We provide adjudication and dispute board services on construction contracts, including FIDIC Dispute Adjudication Board (DAB / DAAB) appointments. The role calls for the same three competences at once — the contract, the technical reality of the works and the quantification of the claim — which is precisely the combination we work in every day.
This is not standard practice on Czech public contracts, where disputes take other routes. On private projects, particularly those with international parties, it is beginning to appear — and for an investor who knows adjudication from other markets, it is often the fastest way out of a deadlock.
We help set the project up with a clear brief, a realistic budget, properly prepared documentation and comprehensible rules for the phases that follow. How many problems a project generates during construction is largely decided here.
Typically: supervision of the Bill of Quantities, design review, permitting, expert consultancy, BIM/CDE set-up, and preparation of the data and contractual framework.
We support contracting authorities in preparing and running procurement procedures that are transparent, technically well founded, and that lead to a contractor genuinely able to deliver.
Typically: tender documents, contractual conditions, tender evaluation, abnormally low tenders, digital tendering in a CDE, and expert support to the evaluation committee.
During construction we hold the project under technical, contractual, time and financial control. We manage Variations, claims, the programme, quality, safety and communication between the parties.
Typically: the Engineer, contract management, claim management, cost management, time management, TDS, health and safety, coordination of trade contractors, BIM/CDE, and continuous recording of communication.
Completing a project is more than obtaining final building approval. Contractual and financial matters have to be closed out, Variations and claims settled, documentation checked, and data prepared for the future operation of the asset.
Typically: support during final building approval, close-out of Variations and claims, review of as-built documentation, the digital asset record, data handover, and settlement of contractual and financial matters.
We represent the Employer under the contract and manage the project throughout construction. We keep processes running in accordance with the contractual conditions, make sure each step follows from the last, and give the investor real control. Our role sits between strategy, day-to-day management and rigorous administration.
Claim management starts before a dispute exists. Claims are recorded systematically, analysed for their contractual, time and financial consequences, and resolved on terms that are fair and defensible for both sides. The purpose is to keep the project moving, not to bring it to a halt.
A common data environment ensures that all communication, Variations and approvals leave a single, traceable record. When it becomes necessary to demonstrate who decided what, when, and on what basis, the data is immediately available — and the Employer's contractual position rests on facts.
As early as possible. The greatest value comes during preparation, when the brief, the contractual conditions, the budget, the programme, the data environment and the rules for Variations and claims are being set. Joining during construction still makes sense, particularly once a project starts generating Variations, delay, additional cost or contentious situations.
Yes. Our project teams work in English on projects with international contractors and investors, and our contractual correspondence, expert opinions and reporting can be delivered in English. The underlying contracts and statutory documentation remain in Czech or Slovak, as the law requires.
