Concrete arch dam and hydropower plant
Employer and subcontractor payment applications, budget and cost studies, BOQ work and comparative take-offs.
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Quantity Surveying and Final Accounts
Freelance quantity surveying: interim payment applications, quantity take-off, BOQ preparation, variations and final accounts. Remote, per project.
Who it is for
- Contractors who need extra QS capacity during peak months but not another permanent hire
- Subcontractors preparing payment applications for a main contractor
- Turkish contractors working in the Gulf, Central Asia or Africa who want a QS fluent in both Turkish and English
- Employers and developers who want an independent check of a contractor's payment application
- Small contractors bidding on projects that require a priced BOQ
What it fixes
- Payment applications go in late because site staff prepare them between other jobs, and cash flow suffers.
- Measurement back-up is scattered, so the engineer queries the same items every month.
- Instructed changes were built but never priced, so the money sits outside the account.
- Price adjustment is either skipped or recalculated by hand each month with different indices.
- The works are complete, yet the final account drags on for months and retention stays locked.
Scope and deliverables
| Item | Deliverable |
|---|---|
| 01.01 | Monthly interim payment application with summary, measurement sheets and supporting back-up |
| 01.02 | Quantity take-off from drawings or a Revit model, with sketches cross-referenced to drawing numbers |
| 01.03 | Bills of quantities for tender or for subcontract packages |
| 01.04 | Rate build-ups for new items and star rates, with sources for labour, plant and material |
| 01.05 | Price adjustment calculations using the indices named in the contract |
| 01.06 | Variation register and valuation of instructed changes |
| 01.07 | Final account and the document list for taking-over and performance certificates |
| 01.08 | Independent review of a contractor's application on behalf of an employer |
How I work
- Step 01
Collect documents
You share the contract, priced BOQ or rate schedule, drawings, previous applications and site records. Within the first week I send back a list of anything missing.
- Step 02
Set the structure
I build the application in the format the engineer or main contractor expects, with item codes mapped to the BOQ from the start.
- Step 03
Measure and price
Quantities come from drawings or the model and are reconciled with site measurements. Every difference is listed with a reason.
- Step 04
Check and issue
The package goes through formula and total checks before I issue it as Excel and PDF. When the engineer comes back with queries, I draft the written replies.
Why use a remote quantity surveyor?
The payment application decides a project’s cash flow. If it is late, payment is late. If it is wrong, it comes back and payment slips another month. Even so, on many projects it lands on an engineer who is already busy running the site.
I have worked on site and in technical offices since 2014. I prepared payment applications and new-item rates on a concrete arch dam in Türkiye, an international airport and a wastewater treatment plant in Saudi Arabia, and ran final accounts on university campus and solar projects. You can use that experience for the months you need it, without adding a permanent post.
An application the engineer can check
A good payment application is one the engineer can certify without querying a single line. Every measured item ties back to a sketch and every sketch to a drawing number. New rates arrive with their build-up and sources. Price adjustment shows each index value with its publication date.
With each package I add a short note on where every figure comes from, so that your own team can take the structure over later if you want to bring the work back in-house.
Example scenario
Take a mid-sized contractor building a school under a FIDIC Red Book contract in the Gulf. The site manager prepares the applications on top of running the site, variations have piled up by month three and nobody has claimed price adjustment yet. I would start by reviewing the contract and previous applications, then calculate the missing adjustment periods and prepare rate build-ups for the instructed changes. From then on I prepare the monthly application and the site team only deals with measurement records.
Final accounts
A final account should start alongside the last payment applications, not after them. Re-measurement (faster when quantities come from a Revit model), reconciliation with as-built drawings and tying each variation to its instruction all take time. Run in parallel, the final account is ready close to completion and retention release does not wait longer than it has to.
For Turkish contractors abroad
Turkish contractors working in the Gulf, Central Asia and Africa often look for someone who works in Turkish with head office and in English with the engineer, and who knows the FIDIC payment clauses. On a project in Saudi Arabia I led the technical office, covering payments, document control, new rates and material approvals. I can work as that bridge between your head office and the project.
Related projects
International airport, finishing works
Finishing works payments, rates for new items and contract amendments.
Wastewater treatment plant, Saudi Arabia
Payment applications, new unit rates, comparative take-offs, design revisions, material submittals and procurement.
Questions clients ask
Do you need to be on site?
Usually not. I work from drawings, measurement records and site photos. Where a final account needs a joint measurement on site, I price the visit as a separate line in the proposal.
Which measurement standards do you work with?
Whatever the contract names. Most of my work has been under FIDIC contracts with project-specific BOQs and under Turkish public works rules. If your contract calls for a specific method of measurement, tell me at the enquiry stage and I will confirm before quoting.
Can you review a contractor's application for us as the employer?
Yes. I check quantities, rates, price adjustment and variations line by line and give you a report of the differences with reasons, so you can certify with confidence.
How do you charge?
Either a monthly fee for ongoing applications or a fixed fee per package, quoted in EUR, GBP, USD or AED. Every engagement runs on a written scope, a delivery schedule and an invoice.
How do you protect our documents?
We sign an NDA before any files change hands. Documents stay in the shared space you choose, and my working copies are deleted after handover.
When should the final account start?
Earlier than most teams think. Running final account measurement alongside the last few payment applications saves months at taking-over.
New project
Tell me about your project in a few lines.
Describe what needs doing and we will pin down scope and timing together.