Estimating Services | Benchmark Estimates, Perth WA

Quantity take-offs

Measured quantities straight from your drawings, set out so your team can check any line back to the source. Take-offs are structured to match the schedule of rates or BOQ the client has issued, so nothing needs remapping before pricing.

Measurement from PDF, CAD or issued-for-tender drawing sets
Structured to the client’s schedule of rates, or to a standard method of measurement
Assumptions and drawing revisions recorded against each item
Excel deliverable with formulas left live so quantities can be interrogated
Variance check against any client-issued quantities, with discrepancies flagged

Cost estimating

Rates built from first principles rather than lifted from an unrelated job. Labour, plant, materials and subcontract inputs are priced against current Western Australian market conditions, then assembled with preliminaries, margin and risk.

First-principles build-ups for labour, plant, materials and subcontract
Production rates set against the plant and crew you actually intend to run
Preliminaries priced off the programme, not applied as a flat percentage
Risk and contingency itemised so the commercial position stays visible
Budget, concept and feasibility estimates as well as tender-stage pricing

Tender preparation

End-to-end support from receipt of documents through to lodgement. Beyond the numbers, this covers the schedules, qualifications and pricing assumptions that decide whether a bid is assessed as conforming.

Document review and a clear scope, exclusions and qualifications register
Priced schedule of rates or bill of quantities in the client’s format
Subcontractor and supplier RFQ packages, plus quote levelling
Pricing assumptions written up in a form the client can rely on
Review call before lodgement so your team can set the final commercial position

Civil infrastructure estimating

Our core discipline, and the work behind twelve years of experience across Australia and the Middle East: roads, drainage, bulk earthworks, water reticulation and associated structures, on local government, utility and principal contractor tenders.

Roads, pavements, kerbing, asphalt and spray seal
Bulk and detailed earthworks, including cut/fill balance and haul assessment
Stormwater drainage, pits, culverts and headwalls
Water and sewer reticulation, mains relocations and service protection
Concrete structures, retaining walls and shared path networks

Landscaping estimating

Parks, streetscapes and public realm packages, priced with the establishment and maintenance obligations that usually sit behind them — the part most often underpriced at tender.

Soft landscaping, turf, mulch and planting schedules
Irrigation systems, including mainline, controllers and commissioning
Hard landscaping, paving, furniture and playground installation
Establishment and defined maintenance periods priced as a separate line
Streetscape and public realm packages within larger civil contracts

Residential & commercial buildings

Building works priced with the same discipline as our civil packages, from a single custom home through to unit developments, offices, retail tenancies and industrial sheds. Estimates are structured trade by trade so builders, developers and subcontractors can see exactly where the money sits.

Residential: custom homes, additions, townhouses, unit and apartment developments
Commercial: offices, retail, hospitality, warehouses, industrial sheds and fitouts
Full trade-by-trade estimates from architectural, structural and services drawings
Elemental cost plans at concept and design development stages
Site works, earthworks, driveways, drainage and external works priced in-house
Value engineering with costed alternatives where a scheme comes back over budget
Reconciliation between design stages so cost movement stays traceable

Estimating services for civil contractors, builders and developers