Construction World March 2018

QUANTITY SURVEYORS

Building industry GROWING to NEWHEIGHTS GRO2 Consulting is a Pretoria-based Level 2 BBBEE quantity surveying firm that is passionate about being a team player and adding value. Too often in the building industry, we fail to realise that the completion of successful building projects are due to the impact of a strong team behind it.

human capital of its business. Successful and professional teamwork is not assured via conventional education and usually relies on experience. What they are trying to do is to train their staff as part of a skills development to function better, with integrity and personally add value in the professional environment. This is something that you cannot get from a degree or from an industry that does not reflect where you come from. GRO2 staff undergoes professional development training throughout the year and have responded well. Being a team player is not only knowing how to work well with each other, but also knowing how to work well with other teams. The partners of GRO2 have had successful partnerships with professional consultant teams on projects such as: DSTV City, Wonderpark Shopping Centre Reconfiguration, Menlyn Park Shopping Centre Reconfiguration, Rohlig-Grindrod Warehouse, Bounce (Johannesburg, Pretoria and Durban), Apex on Smuts Residential, Crystal Park Housing Development, UTI Pharma Warehouse, University of Pretoria Bophelong Residence and The Wedge City Lodge Newtown. 

I t was with this fundamental aspect, passion and pride that GRO2 Consulting was established in 2017 by Leon Fowler, Ferdie van der Merwe and Nasreen Motara. With the construction industry constantly evolving, like many others, their aim and commitment has remained the same in offering their clients a proactive and involved, passionate team player in order to achieve the best product. This is achieved by being part of the process at the initial stage of a project by setting a realistic budget and then to manage this budget to completion and final account. It handles the Client’s investment in the project with great integrity and care with accurate cost reporting and management. With their combined 70 years of quantity surveying experience, Leon; Ferdie and

Nasreen have focused on strategies that will bring long-term growth. The investment focus today is not where it should be and tends to focus on the building, on the numbers and statistics and assumes that this brings success. We have forgotten to invest in people. GRO2 Consulting has realised how counter intuitive this is to long- term business in the Quantity Surveying industry. The question they ask is how wil growth be assessed in companies today when in time your entire employee base is turned over. For GRO2, the answer lies in how they define value and growth in the long-term, both inwardly in terms of company vision and development and outwardly in terms of quality performance and growth. What makes GRO2 unique is its focus on the

DSTV City (ABOVE) and Menlyn Park Shopping Centre Reconfiguration.

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