Simulated workplace
Department
Estimating and Contracts
Prices work, prepares tenders and manages contracts from signing to final claim. Estimators take off quantities from the drawings, build labour and material schedules and check subcontractor quotes. Contract administrators handle variations, progress claims, extensions of time and the paperwork behind every permit and approval.
Responsibilities
What the team is accountable for
- Prepare quantity take-offs, cost plans and tender submissions
- Produce labour and material schedules for ordering
- Draft and administer building and plumbing contracts
- Process variations, progress claims and extensions of time
- Lodge building permit and plumbing notification paperwork
Performance measures
How we know it is working
1 in 3.4
Tender win rate
within 4%
Estimate accuracy at completion
88%
Progress claims paid within terms
People
Who works here
LH
Leila Haddad
Estimating and Contracts Manager
Quantity surveyor by training, she has priced and administered Keystone's contracts since 2016 and reviews every variation before it goes to a client.
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Where the work is recorded
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