London construction is a different scale and pace to regional work — higher project values, more complex procurement chains, more main contractors operating under rigorous tender processes, and clients who expect their numbers to hold up under scrutiny from a professional team on the other side. The projects we work on across London reflect that: commercial fit-outs in the City, residential refurbishments in South East London, healthcare and retail fit-outs in East London. Each one has brought a full measured take-off, a detailed priced submission, and in most cases a successful outcome for the contractor.
A recent Category B office fit-out in the City of London — 4,500 sqft, partitioning, suspended ceilings, raised access flooring, bespoke joinery and FF&E — was tendered at a contract value of £648,000. The work involved full measured take-off from architectural and engineering drawings, subcontractor enquiries issued to specialist partition, ceiling, flooring and joinery firms, and returns analysed and compared on a like-for-like basis before a final tender total was compiled. That level of rigour is what the City requires: a contractor submitting to a sophisticated client in a competitive field cannot afford to win on an under-priced bid or lose because the number wasn't credible.
Outside the commercial core, a full internal residential refurbishment in South East London — kitchen, bathrooms, complete redecoration, new M&E throughout, structural alterations — was priced at £288,000 and won on a competitive tender. And a high street dentist internal refurbishment in East London came in at £167,000, covering the specialist clinical fit-out requirements alongside the standard strip-out, structural and builder's work. These projects sit across very different sectors but share the same common requirement: a precise, defensible number produced under pressure and to a tight deadline.