CONCEPT & VIABILITY

"STAGE 2" is to prepare and finalise the project concept in accordance with the brief including the scope, scal, character, form, function and preliminary programme and viability of the project, which in broad terms includes the following services:

- Agreeing the documentation programme with the principal consultant and other professional consultants

- Attending design and consultants' meetings

- Reviewing and evaluating design concepts and advising on viability in conjunction with the other professional consultants

- Receiving relevant data and cost estimates from the other professional consultants

- Preparing preliminary and elemental or equivalent estimates of construction cost

- Assisting the client in preparing a financial viability report

- Auditing space allocation against the initial brief

- Liasing, co-operating and providing necessary information to the client, principal consultant and other professional consultants

and for which the following deliverables are applicable:

- Preliminary estimate(s) of construction cost

- Elemental or equivalent estimate(s) of construction cost

- Space allocation audit for the project