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Risk is identified, then managed
Our aim is that every party can develop and tender for a project knowing where the risk sits, with the chance to mitigate it rather than discover it later.
About
A consultancy built around seeing the risk early.
DYO Developments LTD is a professional construction consultancy based in the Midlands. Our general service is to provide secondment, consulting and recommendations to whichever party needs the support, whether that is a developer, an investor, a principal contractor, a subcontractor, a private contractor or an individual weighing up what to do with a property.
Quantity surveying · Project management · Asset management · Structural design
[ 01 / Our goal ]
Projects should be entered into with the risk understood.
Construction risk is rarely hidden because someone is being careless. It is hidden because information arrives late, assumptions go unchallenged and nobody is holding the commercial thread across the whole project. Bringing one party in to hold that thread changes the outcome.
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The same information for everyone
Where the brief, the ground and the consents are clear, tenders price the project rather than the uncertainty. That is better for the client and fairer for the contractor.
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Independent advice
We advise the party who appoints us. We do not act for both sides of the same project, and we say plainly when we are not the right consultancy for a job.
[ 02 / How we are appointed ]
Three ways to use us.
Most relationships start with a defined commission. From there, the shape of the support is whatever the project or the business actually needs.
- Commission
- A defined piece of work: agreed deliverables, a programme and a fee. Scope is confirmed in writing before we start, so there is no ambiguity about what is included.
- Secondment
- One of our people works inside your team for a period, to your reporting lines and standards, with the expertise available when it is needed rather than on a visiting basis.
- Independent advice
- A second opinion on options, cost or approach before you commit. Useful where a board, a lender or a family needs an outside view in writing.
[ 03 / Who we act for ]
Whichever side of the project you sit on.
We are appointed by clients, contractors, consultants and private owners. The discipline is the same in each case: establish the position, put numbers on it, and make the consequences visible.
- Developers and investors
- Land agents
- Main contractors
- Subcontractors and specialist contractors
- Property owners developing or expanding
- Owners refurbishing or extending
- Manufacturing and engineering businesses
- Maintenance companies and estate agents
- Consultancies needing additional support
- Private individuals and private developers
Next step
Bring us in early and the risk is cheaper to manage.
Tell us what you are planning. If we are not the right people for it, we will say so and point you somewhere better.