Specification Consultation

What’s included

• Specification review for technical appropriateness and performance alignment.
• Local market availability and supply chain assessment.
• Cost-performance trade-off analysis and alternative specification advice.
• Lead time and import complication identification.
• Buildability review against local contractor and trade capability.
• Specification report and written recommendation documentation.

The specification of a building — the precise materials, products, systems, and standards called up in the design — has enormous downstream consequences for cost, durability, maintainability, and buildability, yet specification decisions are often made under time pressure, without the benefit of independent technical advice. Our specification consultation service provides that independent advice: reviewing and advising on material and system specifications to ensure they are technically appropriate, genuinely available in the relevant market, cost-effective, and aligned with the project's performance requirements.

This service is particularly valuable at the interface between design ambition and construction reality — helping design teams understand which specifications are readily buildable in local market conditions, which may involve long lead times or import complications, and where a specification change could deliver equivalent performance at meaningfully lower cost or risk. Getting specification right early avoids the far more disruptive alternative: discovering at tender or construction stage that a specified product or system is unavailable, prohibitively expensive, or poorly suited to local conditions.