Quantity Surveyor Adelaide

Our Quantity Surveying Services in Adelaide

We can pick up a project at any stage, or run cost management end to end.

1. Feasibility & Cost Planning

   Before you commit, we test whether the numbers work. Elemental cost plans built from real Adelaide rates tell you what the scheme costs and where the money goes, so you can adjust the design while changes are still cheap.

2. Bills of Quantities & Tender Documentation

   A measured BOQ puts every tenderer on the same scope, so the prices you get back are genuinely comparable. It removes the guesswork from bid analysis and takes the scope-gap arguments out of the job before they start.

3. Tender Review & Contractor Selection

   We assess submitted bids line by line against the documentation, flag underpriced items that will come back as variations, and give you a written recommendation you can put in front of a board or a lender.

4. Progress Claim Assessment

   We check what the contractor has actually built against what they have invoiced, and certify the amount properly payable. You pay for completed work, not for optimism.

5. Variation & Change Assessment

   When scope moves — and it will — we price the change independently and confirm whether the claim is valid and the rate is fair before it lands in your budget.

6. Cost Reporting Through Construction

   Regular cost reports showing committed spend, forecast final cost and remaining contingency, so a problem shows up in a report months before it shows up in your bank account.

7. Final Account Settlement

   We reconcile the whole job at completion — contract sum, variations, provisional sums, prime cost items — and negotiate the closing position so the project ends cleanly.

Do I Need a Construction Estimator or a Quantity Surveyor?

They overlap, but they answer different questions. Most Adelaide clients need one clearly more than the other.

Quantity Surveying Built on SA Rates and SA Contract Conditions

Adelaide is a smaller market than the eastern capitals, and that changes the cost picture rather than simplifying it. A shorter list of head contractors means less competitive tension on tender day, so a properly measured bill of quantities does more work here than almost anywhere — it’s often the only thing keeping three bids genuinely comparable. Defence and infrastructure work draws the same trades and plant that residential and commercial builders need, and that shows up in rates well before it shows up in any published index.

Then there’s the building stock. Stone and masonry through the inner suburbs, heritage overlays across North Adelaide and the eastern councils, and reactive clay soils that drive footing designs and costs that a national rate book simply won’t capture.

There’s a procedural layer too. Progress payments in SA operate under the Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act, which sets strict timeframes for payment claims and responses. Missing a deadline can cost you the right to dispute an amount. We assess claims against the contract and the programme so you respond on time and on solid ground.

Independent numbers. SA rates. No surprises at final account.

Contact Us Today

Whether you’re testing a site’s feasibility, about to go to tender, or halfway through a build and losing sight of where the money is going, we can help. Send us what you have and we’ll tell you what’s worth doing.

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+61 415 798 401 — 8:00am–5:30pm, 7 days

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info@matrixestimating.com.au — send plans, response within 24 hours

We work on

Residential developments · Commercial · Fit-outs · Heritage & renovation · Detached housing