90% of CBA's professional staff - an unusually high proportion - are qualified in their respective disciplines.

Our specialist subsidiary, CBA Cost Engineering Services, deals exclusively with the costing and placing of contracts for mechanical and electrical installations.

There are alternative approaches to any project. One of our most important functions in the early stages is to advise our client on which of these they should choose.

At one level, this advice is implicit in the way we cost a particular project.

The emphasis we place on how much should be spent here, how much there, stems as much from the perceived need to balance quality with cost, as from our assesment of the labour, plant and materials likely to be required.

But we also have a wider capacity for advice. Our own team consists of specialists in their respective sectors, who have worked alongside specialists from the other professions, as well as many contractors. We know very well who is suited to a particular type of project and can recommend accordingly.

We are also familiar with all the other considerations which determine the way a project should be planned - the type of contract, the required speed and quality of build, the nature and function of the building itself.

Our reputation rests on recommending the right approach, the right cost and the right people - and our ability to do this represents real value for money, in terms both of the service we provide and the quality of the end building product.