Property Project Management in London
From refurbishments and extensions to planned maintenance programmes, Wimbledon Surveyors provides chartered surveyor-led project management for residential and commercial building works across Wimbledon and London. We protect your budget, your programme and your interests – from first brief to final account. Discuss your project with the team.
Contract Administration
As contract administrator we prepare the specification, obtain and level tenders, administer the building contract (typically JCT), chair site meetings, value work fairly for interim payments, certify practical completion and settle the final account. The builder builds; we make sure the paperwork, payments and quality checks protect you throughout.
Employer’s Agent Services
On design and build projects we act as employer’s agent – defining your requirements, managing the contractor’s proposals, monitoring cost and progress, and administering changes. You get a single professional voice representing your interests against an experienced contractor’s team.
Development and Site Monitoring
Lenders, investors and buyers of off-plan property need independent eyes on site. Our development monitoring inspections report on build quality, programme and drawdown requests, while clerk of works-style inspections during construction catch defects while they are still cheap to fix – long before a snagging survey at handover.
Planned Maintenance Programmes
For landlords, freeholders and managing agents we turn survey findings into costed, prioritised maintenance plans – then procure and oversee the works. Combined with our commercial property surveys and stock condition surveys, this keeps portfolios compliant and budgets predictable.
Why a Chartered Surveyor-Led Project?
Because most project disputes trace back to unclear scope, poor cost control or unchecked workmanship – exactly the things surveyors exist to manage. With RICS-regulated professionals running your project you get impartial advice, robust contracts and documented quality at every stage. Request a proposal for your project.
Construction Project Management & Consultancy in London
Construction projects fail in predictable ways: unclear scope, optimistic budgets, contracts that don’t protect the client, and nobody with the authority and expertise to hold contractors to account. Our project management team exists to prevent exactly that. As chartered surveyors, we act as the client’s professional representative on residential and commercial projects across London and Essex — from home renovations and extensions to office fit-outs and block refurbishments — protecting your interests from first budget to final account.
Services Under One Roof
- Construction project management — day-to-day leadership of your project: programme, budget, procurement and coordination.
- Contract administration — running JCT building contracts: valuations, certificates, instructions and disputes.
- Employer’s agent — client-side representation on design and build projects.
- Development monitoring — protecting lenders and investors funding someone else’s project.
- Principal designer — CDM 2015 and Building Regulations dutyholder roles.
- Clerk of works & site inspections — independent quality inspection during construction.
Why Appoint a Surveyor-Led Project Manager
Surveyors bring what construction projects most often lack: cost discipline and contractual rigour. We understand buildings technically — so defects and shortcuts get caught, not painted over — and we understand contracts commercially, so variations are controlled, payments reflect work actually done, and you hold leverage until the job is genuinely finished. On smaller projects we scale the service down: sometimes a homeowner needs only a contract set up properly and a few key-stage inspections to transform their risk position.
When to Involve Us
The biggest savings are made before contractors are appointed. Involve us at concept stage and we will pressure-test the budget, assemble the right professional team, run a competitive tender rather than a single builder’s quote, and put a proper contract in place with retention and damages provisions. Already on site and in difficulty? We also take over troubled projects — establishing what has been paid versus built, then stabilising programme and contract. Where projects end in formal dispute, our expert witness surveyors provide independent evidence, and our dilapidations team handles lease-end liabilities.
Fees That Pay for Themselves
We charge either a fixed fee or an agreed percentage of construction cost, scaled to the service level you need. On most projects, competitive tendering alone recovers more than our entire fee — before counting the value of avoided variations, defects caught early and disputes that never happen.
Frequently Asked Questions
We define the brief and budget, assemble designers, run the tender, set up the building contract, then manage programme, cost, quality and communication through construction to handover — acting solely in your interest, independent of the contractor.
For small works, usually not — but for structural renovations, extensions and whole-house projects, independent management typically saves more than it costs by preventing scope creep, overpayment and unresolved defects. We offer scaled-down services for domestic clients, from full management to contract set-up plus key-stage inspections.
Typically 3-8% of construction cost depending on project size and service level, or a fixed fee for defined scopes. We confirm fees before appointment — and competitive tendering usually recovers more than the fee on its own.
The project manager leads the whole project across all stages; the contract administrator runs the building contract itself — certificates, instructions and valuations — with impartial duties under the contract. On many projects we perform both roles; on others, just one. See our contract administration page for detail.
Yes. We audit what has been paid against what has been built, establish the true contract position, and either bring the existing contractor back into line or manage an orderly replacement — protecting your money and evidence trail throughout.