Development advice. Practical delivery support.
Baily Consult provides development, preconstruction, project management and programme support for clients making decisions about land, buildings and construction. The appointment may focus on one question or provide continuing support alongside your team.
Explore the four areas below, or go directly to the service you need. Each page explains who it is for, what it covers, how the work is organised and the outputs that can be agreed.
How the services fit together
Support at every stage of a project.
Group one
Development & Investment Advisory
Understand the opportunity before committing to the next step. We bring the site's constraints, development options, cost, programme and value assumptions together so that alternatives can be compared on a consistent basis.
- Site identification & acquisition supportDefine the search, assess opportunities and develop the information needed for an acquisition decision.
- Feasibility studies & options appraisalsCompare what a site or building could become, what each option would require and what it could return.
- Investment & scheme reviewsTest the appraisal, assumptions and delivery risks before the next commitment.
- Pre-acquisition due diligenceIdentify the technical, planning, cost and delivery questions that affect the purchase decision.
- Design, mix & value optimisationTest design and tenure options against cost, programme and the development objectives.
- Stalled & unviable schemesUnderstand why the development case no longer works and compare credible alternatives.
- Asset strategy for existing buildingsCompare retention, improvement, alternative use or disposal for an asset already owned.
- Advice to lenders, investors & advisersProvide a defined independent view of development assumptions and delivery risk.
Group two
Preconstruction & Delivery Strategy
Establish how a scheme can be built before key assumptions become commitments. We connect design, buildability, cost, sequencing and procurement to develop a practical route to site and delivery.
- Preconstruction strategy & supportCoordinate the technical and construction decisions needed to prepare a scheme for delivery.
- Delivery strategy for complex sitesTest phasing, access, infrastructure and dependencies against the programme and development case.
- Delivery strategy & procurementCompare delivery routes, packaging and market engagement before commitments are made.
- Contractor cost & programme challengeReview a proposed price, sequence and programme against scope and assumptions.
Cost planning & commercial testing. We prepare or review construction cost plans and test how design, specification, methodology and programme affect the budget. The work can support acquisition appraisal, option testing or preconstruction decisions, with the basis, exclusions and specialist inputs made clear.
Group three
Development & Project Management
Provide client-side management for the agreed development or project scope, coordinating people, information and decisions around the client's objectives.
- Development managementKeep the overall development objectives, appraisal, team and strategy aligned as the scheme progresses.
- Project managementCoordinate the agreed project stages, programme, procurement, reporting and completion activities.
- Project recovery & completion supportEstablish what remains, organise the actions required and support progress towards completion.
Development management focuses on the overall development outcome and the decisions needed to realise it. Project management focuses on organising and managing the agreed project scope. The responsibilities can connect, but the appointment defines who is doing what.
Group four
Construction Programming & Advisory
Practical programme support for developers, contractors and specialist subcontractors: planning the works, reviewing the sequence and understanding progress against the programme.
- Construction programmingPrepare programmes with the practical sequence of work, dependencies and key assumptions in mind.
- Programme review & progress analysisTest whether the proposed timing fits the scope and method, and compare progress with the programme.
- Supporting programme analysis for claimsExamine programme material and the sequence of works relevant to a defined commercial question. A defined analytical input, not a claims practice.