VOLOCO Construction Consulting Information

t: +44 (0) 1454 324111 e: email@voloco.co.uk VOLOCO is a commercial consultancy for the construction industry. We’ve been going since 2014. Our office is in Marshfield, South Gloucestershire, but the team lives and works across the country, so we cover much of the UK. We work for main contractors, SME builders, specialist trade firms, developers and clients. That covers quantity surveying and cost management, bid and preconstruction management, estimating, design management and commercial consulting, from the first cost plan through to the final account. In our experience most of the commercial problems that hurt a contractor on site were baked in before anyone got there, in a price that didn’t allow for the risk, amendments nobody read properly, payment terms that leave them funding the job, or no clear route for notifying and valuing change. So a lot of what we do happens early. We review tenders and contracts before they’re signed, help price the risk, and set contractors up with the processes and templates to get paid for what they build. We also step in when workload peaks. That might mean leading the bid team on a £110m schools framework scheme, acting as commercial lead on a live project, or working alongside a trade contractor’s own people week in, week out as their retained commercial partner. Between us we’ve worked on schools, universities, offices, prisons and courts, high-rise refurbishment, later living, student accommodation, retail and housing, in the UK and overseas, under JCT, NEC, PPC2000 and bespoke forms of contract and subcontract. Some of our clients have been with us for years. Almost all of our work is repeat business, which says more than anything we could write here. If you’re a contractor and not completely sure what you’ve signed up to, it’s worth a conversation.