Services
What we do
Dispute Resolution
Cost-effective solutions from ADR to mediation
To resolve disputes, we begin by understanding your objectives and establishing a clear commercial strategy. We aim to bring you the earliest possible settlement on the most advantageous terms. To do this, we make sure we are up to speed with new developments, legislation and cultural changes in the construction world.
Backed by decades of international experience, we can find cost-effective solutions in situations that might otherwise degenerate into protracted disputes. Resolving issues swiftly and amicably allows parties to concentrate on their future business relationships.
You can call on our professional services at any stage in the construction process.
- Commercial management and intervention while projects are still in progress
- Claim preparation and management
- Negotiation
- Arbitration
- Adjudication
- Mediation
- Litigation
- Construction Disputes
- ADR – Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Expert Determination
- Expert Reports
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Project Management
Complete project management and satisfactory delivery
At MPG, we design our Project Management service specifically to meet your needs. We give expert advice and assistance in the procurement and construction of buildings for occupiers and both private and institutional commercial developers.
We are frequently involved throughout the lifetime of a project and beyond, from initial advice at the early concept stage through the selection and appointment of full consultant teams to procurement, construction on site and occupation.
We provide expert advice on terms of appointment to consultants, which we monitor for compliance throughout the design and construction process.
By developing a design brief from the initial proposal, we set the parameters within which your project will evolve. That design brief is constantly checked and updated by us to reflect changes as they are required and occur.
Your MPG Project Manager will develop suitable reporting procedures with you to ensure that full awareness of all stages and aspects of the Project is maintained with the appropriate client personnel. Full financial control and reporting is an essential element of this process.
- Recommend the best means of Procuring construction
- Monitor duties undertaken by the Professional Team and Contractor
- Prepare Feasibility Studies
- Undertake Market Research
- Obtain and develop the Client Brief
- Conduct Design Competition and select Consultants
- Co-ordinate the Design
- Obtain all necessary Building and Planning Permissions
- Ground Investigations and Traffic Impact Surveys
- Review Design Development and update Budgets
- Develop a Construction Method Statement
- Programme Management
- Pre-Design Management
- Design Management
- Risk Management
- Construction and Post-Construction Management
- Facilities Management
Mechanical, Electrical and Public Health Engineering
Flexible, personal, professional
Our approach to MEP is to ensure we consider the impact of building construction at all stages of the design development process. That includes working towards minimising the adverse effects of new buildings on the environment and achieving healthy indoor conditions for the occupants.
At MPG, we understand the importance of our MEP role within the design team.
- Contributing towards synergy among team members
- Achieving buildings that are practical and cost-effective and adding value through their design
- Exceeding your expectations
Engineering is by definition about optimising technical, practical and functional considerations. Our aim is to produce innovative yet practical solutions to suit your specific needs and budgets.
We have an established reputation in the successful realisation of architects’ designs for a wide range of facilities. We enjoy working closely with clients and the other members of their design teams. When we work together from the earliest stage, it leads to a united understanding of the project’s demands and requirements. That in turn contributes to the efficient implementation of the construction process, helping to resolve potential problems and enabling us to be innovative in our engineering solutions.
We offer a flexible, personal approach to fulfilling all our clients’ engineering requirements. We give prompt, individual attention to our projects through a minimal management hierarchy. We value the mutual respect, trust and confidence that we have built over the years, and we regard the continuing loyalty of many clients as the measure of our success.
Our Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing Engineering services
- Design Engineering Services
- Preparation of Specifications and Drawings
- Value Engineering
- Design Supervision
- Utilities Management
Quantity Surveying and Cost Management
QS and cost management services for client and contracting organisations
At MPG, we work as Quantity Surveyors on a wide variety of projects, from multi-million-pound new builds to smaller works such as alterations. We provide full quantity surveying services, including feasibility estimates, cost planning, compilation of tender documents, reporting and valuing construction costs, preparation of final accounts and provision of analysis for taxation and estimating purposes.
We have a wealth of experience that includes residential, retail, commercial, data centres and industrial projects for a wide range of clients including developers and major funding institutions. We have carried out projects employing a wide range of procurement routes including single and two-stage lump sum tendering, management contracting, construction management and cost reimbursement.
The contracts we utilise are generally based on the standard family of contracts, and we also have experience of drafting bespoke contracts in association with clients’ other legal advisers.
We also provide specialist services including in connection with claims and disputes, property and fire insurances, capital allowances and insolvency matters.
Our quantity surveying and cost management services
- Design economics and cost planning
- Whole life costing
- Procurement and tendering
- Liaising with clients and the professional team
- Advice on cost
- Preparation of initial budget/cost plan/cash flow forecasts
- Prepare and maintain cost plan
- Advise design team on impact of design development on cost
- Liaise with professional team
- Advise on procurement strategy
- Liaise with client’s legal advisors on contract matters
- Prepare tender documents
- Define prospective tenders
- Obtain tender/check tenders/prepare recommendation for client
- Maintain and develop cost plan
- Visit the site
- Prepare interim valuations
- Advise on the cost of variations
- Agree the cost of claims
- Advise on contractual matters
- Arrange release of retention funds
- Prepare final accounts
- Prepare recommendations for liquidated and ascertained damages
- Preparation of mechanical and electrical tender documentation
- Preparation of cost analyses
- Advice on insurance claims
- Facilitate value management exercises
- Prepare life cycle calculations/sustainability
- Capital allowance advice/VAT
- Attend adjudication/mediation proceedings
- Feasibility Studies
- Reporting and Valuing Construction Projects
- Bills of Quantities and Re-Measurements
- Contract Procurement
- Tender and Risk Analysis
Contract Administration
Taking responsibility
MPG’s team will be responsible for the administration of a complete range of services in relation to a typical JCT contract.
- Certificate for payment
- Notice of completion of making good
- Certificate of non-completion
- Statement of practical completion
- Contract instruction
- Extension of time
- Final certificate
- Intention to terminate
- Notice of dispute
- Notice of intention to withhold sums
- Notice of release of sums being withheld
- Notice of termination
- Site directions
- Statement of retention values
- Valuation
- Pay-less notice
Health and Safety Audits
Professional and comprehensive
At MPG, our team of highly qualified and professional surveyors deliver a comprehensive range of surveys, assessments, audits and valuations for residential and commercial properties.
Our multi-disciplinary staff can complete your requirements in a single visit, offering a cost effective and efficient solution to modern property management.
We aim to
- Provide a comprehensive range of surveys, assessments, audits and valuations, delivered in a consistent format
- Achieve cost and time savings with a single visit covering all your requirements
- Provide a set of recommendations for risk improvement
Our onsite services
- Property risk surveys
- Fire risk assessments
- Asbestos surveys
- Building insurance valuations
- Environmental audits
- Energy performance certification
- Electrical wiring and Portable Appliance Testing (PAT)
- Water treatment analysis (Legionella)
Risk Management and Value Engineering
High quality solutions
At MPG, the broad engineering expertise of our staff means we can provide you with high quality engineering solutions within your environmental, budgetary, aesthetic and time constraints. We apply our analysis, design and management skills in a development-wide context based on your needs and objectives.
For each main element of environmental engineering systems, we are able to design reports on the initial options for evaluation by the team, considering functionality and cost. We gather comments from all parties involved and develop the preferred options by producing detailed feasibility studies. Our objective is to produce a scheme design that is already value engineered. This is reviewed throughout the project to assess whether the assumptions that led to a chosen option are still valid. The design reports from the initial and subsequent stages record how, why and when decisions were made.
We are always happy to take part in workshop exercises throughout the project lifetime to value engineer the scheme as the relationship of the structure with other elements develops. We open up our internal review procedure to your project team, and we value their contribution as the scheme develops.
We believe the value engineering process should continue through the appointment of package subcontractors. We discuss detailed items of construction, drawing on the subcontractor’s experience to achieve possible time or cost savings, even at later stages of the project. Our team members provide valuable contributions in both these areas, drawing on our wide experience of construction.
Within the constantly changing environment of the contracting process, we can draw upon a full range of highly qualified and experienced consultants with leading edge skills in the investigation and analysis of money claims and the analysis of the true causes and effects of delay and disruption. In these kinds of scenarios, our services cover
- Advise on, and assist in, the formulation, preparation and submission of notices, applications and records
- Provide guidance on the heads and basis of claims including the evaluation process
- Preliminary investigation into the merits of the case at the outset
- Provide advice and written opinion on legal and commercial support for the claim
- Advise on the best course of action for the earliest and most satisfactory resolution of the dispute
- Prepare documentation for use in the dispute including stating the contractual position, preparing programmes for analytical and presentational purposes, schedules, analysis of cause and effect and relevant particulars
- Research and deal with issues that arise during attempts to resolve the matter
- Undertake and advise about negotiations and tactics for the successful compromise of differences
- Provide advice to our clients at each stage as to the prospects for success
