Construction World March 2018

best outcomes for clients investing in construction, infrastructure and property across a variety of markets. While our roots are in technical delivery, our offer always contains a strategic component created through the use of specialist in-house knowledge and delivered via custom-made client teams. Our specialist capabilities work towards adding value through every stage of the project process. RLB Pentad is a registered Quantity Surveying and Construction Cost Consulting Practice that operates both locally and internationally. With offices located in various countries in Africa, including South Africa, Mauritius, Botswana

and Mozambique, we are well positioned to provide quantity surveying and cost management services to a diverse selection of clients across the continent. We make use of local representation in the different countries in order to provide the best service to clients, with local knowledge and expertise. Does your company regard BIM as a threat or an opportunity? We regard it as an opportunity: Our experience with BIM globally has shown the need for the Quantity Surveyor to still perform 2D verification on BIM generated quantities due to consistent variances with generated quantities upwards of 5%.

The real opportunity that BIM presents to Quantity Surveyors is to interpret the data made available from BIM with less time and resources spent on generating the data from 2D information and thus enabling us to provide must faster real time financial guidance and advice to the design team. What are your current major projects? • Trilogy Collection, Menlyn Maine, Pretoria • Discovery Corporate Head Office, Sandton • 144 Oxford Road, Melrose, Johannesburg • Mall of Cyprus, Cyprus • Tembisa Megamart, Tembisa 

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