Cost Planning

Rains & Associates Pty Ltd has provided cost planning quantity surveying services for various private and public organisations examples include NAB, McDonalds, Petree Pty Ltd, Aftercare, Alexander Perrie and Pirion.

For selected projects, when requested and appropriate, in addition to acting as the Project Manager, Rains + Associates Pty Ltd is engaged as the Cost Planners.

Jim Rains is a registered Quantity Surveyor being a member of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors MRICS and the Australian Institute of Quantity Surveyors AAIQS.

Each project is unique and some projects are better suited to the in-house cost planning + construction management procurement method in lieu of engaging a separate Quantity Surveyor or builder.

This particular type of delivery method is suited to the following type of projects:

Refurbishment projects

Projects required to be completed in Stages

Projects required to be ‘fast tracked’ and commenced with minimal design documentation

Fitout Projects

Heritage Projects