Element Quantity Surveyors

Quantity surveying • Insurance valuations • Tenant installation costs
• Contract administration • Tender proposals • Engineering cost management • Property development advisory services • Construction cost consultants



Learn More

About us

Hands-on
approach

Element Quantity Surveyors is an independent consulting and advisory firm in the construction , engineering and property development industry.

We take a hands-on approach and oversee every project from beginning to end to ensure the utmost accuracy and ultimately client satisfaction.

Element Quantity Surveyors stands apart from other corporate quantity surveying practices by offering a bespoke and personal service.

Image description

Founder's Bio

Conrad Odendaal, has more than two decades' experience in the construction industry. He has worked on a wide variaty of projects, both locally and internationally. He spent more than three years working on site in Zambia as a cost engineer for a prominent mining company. He obtained his professional registration at the SACQSP in 2004 and enrolled as a member of RICS in 2017. From 2012 he worked in senior management at a highly regarded construction cost management company in Cape Town. Conrad has provided quantity surveying services on a wide range of projects including hotels, office parks, low-cost housing developments, holiday resorts, remote mobile telephone data centres, international airport upgrades, domestic airport upgrades, private hospitals, medical clinics, residential housing, health clubs, primary schools, international convention centres, opencast mining, silos, residential apartments, retail developments, academic facility upgrades, etc.

Our services

What we do

Quantity surveying

We play an active roll in making a project financially viable. We work closely with the project team to finalise a project concept on time and in accordance with the client's brief, scope, scale, character, form, function, timeline and budget.

  • Review and evaluate design concepts
  • Prepare prelimenary and elemental estimates of construction costs
  • Prepare financial viability reports
  • Prepare tender documentation and Bills of Quantities for pricing
  • Evaluate and adjudicate tenders
  • Prepare contract documentation
  • Compile project cash flows
  • Prepare valuations for payment certificates
  • Adjudicate and resolving financial claims by the contractor(s)
  • Conclude final accounts

Insurance valuations

As a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), we have extensive experience in preparing replacement cost and reinstatement valuations for insurance purposes on all types of immovable property in South Africa. We act on behalf of the insurer and cost adjusters in the settlement of claims. We also prepare Replacement Cost Valuations (RCV) that provide an accurate estimate of the amount of cover required to replace each structure and/or amenity precisely as it stands on the day the report is prepared. Our clients include property owners, property trusts, body corporates and insurers.

  • Feasibility studies
  • Confirming area schedules of the registered properties within the title deed
  • Common property costs
  • Replacement valuations
  • Rental reviews

Tenant installation costs

We assist landlords and/or tenants with all aspects of leased immovabe property to ensure that all costs are properly calculated, understood and agreed on. We also provide a full service of tenant insallation costs from start to final completion.

  • Review property lease contracts
  • Confirm lettable areas
  • Calculate and confirm tenant allowances
  • Calculate and manage fit-out istallation costs
  • Prepare and settle tenant fit-out final accounts
  • Tender, adjudicate, award and manage tenant fit-out contracts

Contract administration

Prior to commencing with any construction development choosing the right and most suitable contract is key to a continious and successful final completion of a development. We represent both the developer and contractor in various aspects of the contract and have knowledge of various types of contracts including, but not limited to, JBCC, Fedic and the NEC.

  • Adjudication
  • Advise on selection of Contrat type specific to each project
  • Claims assesement
  • Contract applications and interpretations
  • Contractural management
  • Legal advice

Tender proposals

We offer confidential and professional services to prepare and develop tender documentation for construction projects. We ensure that all bid documentation for construction tenders for government, municipal and/or any other state or semi-state enterprise are complete and ready to be submitted.

  • Reviewing tender invitations to identify the tender requirements
  • Reviewing content, format, etc and liaising with key personnel to complete tender documents that are on time, consistant, accurate and meet the tender requirements
  • Developing a tender submission timeline and managing it to ensure all information inputs, designs and bid presentations are all complied with and delivered to meet the deadlines
  • Organising graphs, design and production of all deliverables of the tender proposal (covers, folders, tabs, labels, CDs, copies, etc).
  • Compilation and submission of the tender bid documents

Engineering cost management

With quantity surveying and cost management experience in mining and structural engineering projects, we provide estimations, procurement, contract administration, and engineering cost management services to the mining, minerals and engineering sectors of the industry.

  • Estimates, feasibility studies and cost advice
  • Advice on tendering procedures and contractual obligations
  • Cost reporting, cash flow projections, interim progress payments, financial control, contractural claims, variation costings, etc
  • Dispute resolution
  • Final account settlement

Projects

Completed projects

With more than twenty years of experience, Conrad Odendaal, the founder of Element Quantity Surveyors, has completed a variety of projects, including, but not limited to:

Residential

Gauteng

  • Additions and alterations to an existing 800m2 house, Centurion, Pretoria
  • Two new 190m2 duplex units, Sunningdale, Johannesburg
  • New 1 200m2 double-storey house, Bryanston, Johannesburg
  • New 1 500m2 double-storey house, Illovo, Johannesburg
  • New 880m2 double-storey house, Waterfall Country Estate, Midrand

Western Cape

  • New 280m2 seaside cottage, Hout Bay, Cape Town
  • Alterations to a 230m2 residence with outside building, Pinelands, Cape Town

Insurance valuations

  • Ruyteplaats Body Corporate, Rondebosch, Cape Town
  • Dr Elliot's residence, Constantia, Cape Town
  • Jessica Court, Sea Point, Cape Town
  • Silvermist Mountain Lodge, Constantia, Cape Town
  • Doray Court Residential Apartments, Green Point, Cape Town
  • Sentinel Apartments, Loop Street, Cape Town
  • Bermuda Beach Apartments, Greenways Estate, Strand, Cape Town

Memberships

Professional memberships

  • Society Chartered Surveyors Ireland (2022)
  • Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (2017)
  • Green Point Rate Payers Association (2014)