Description of Book QuickStart Guide to Consultant Fee Budgets for Client-Side Project Leaders by Noelle McManus
Mastering consultant fee budgets is critical to project success as a Client-Side Project Leader yet establishing them in the first place can be difficult.
At project level, fee budgets influence acquisition decisions, consultant appointments, viability appraisals, design quality outcomes and the sustainability agenda. Getting it wrong can lead to delays, disputes and loss of reputation.
The QuickStart Guide to Consultant Fee Budgets for Client-Side Project Leaders provides professionals with an industry proven method to set and manage fee budgets with ease and confidence on-the-job in the construction and development sector.
Mastering fees requires a combination of management and leadership. The right method and tools (management) help you gain approval to proceed while demonstrating a strong understanding of the commercial context and its technical landscape (leadership).
Written from the 'client' perspective exclusively, the Guide will help UK professionals working client-side or, those working contractor or consultancy side who are completing the 'client' function on behalf of another organisation.
This step-by step Guide teaches you how to:
- Establish floor areas and project risks
- Set an ‘initial’ construction cost using square metre (Sq.M) rates
- Calculate an ‘initial’ budget using a ‘percentage of construction cost assumption’
- Break the fees down per specialty (if you can)
- Assemble your professional team to arrive at ‘actual’ fees
- Review your ‘initial’ budget against ‘actual’ returns to establish lessons learned
It also includes:
- Bonus tips to support you in practice
- Assumptions to question at ‘lessons learned’ stage
- Catalyst events that may trigger fee budget change over the development cycle
- FREE BONUS - The ClientSideSuccess Fee Budget Template is available for download inside the Guide to help you get the work done.
