Welcome to ISCA Surveying

We are specialists in quantity surveying and estimating solutions, for the construction industry build and civil engineering sectors.

We can provide you with a flexible, cost effective, professional, freelance service, as and when you need it, essential in today’s economic climate. We offer the full range of quantity surveying and estimating services, suited to your individual needs.  Our experience of working in the contracting and residential sectors, with a range of clients, from sub-contractors to developers, means that we are well positioned to help your business thrive. Take a look at some of our recent projects.

Why use ISCA Surveying?

We can help your business and ensure return on investment by:

• Increasing your profit margins by fully recovering variations and minimising costs, which are often overlooked
• Utilising staff resources in the most efficient manner by employing Isca’s services as and when required, and in most instances recovering in excess of the costs incurred
• Eliminating the use of expensive agencies or long-winded recruitment processes to meet immediate resource needs, cutting out the costly ‘middle man'
• Saving on employment costs and liabilities, including National Insurance, pension, office, car, holidays, training, insurances, costly redundancy payments and employment law issues
• Paying only for what you use, to suit the constant fluctuation in workloads, eliminating the risk of unproductive staff costs.

Please do not hesitate to contact us for further information on what we can offer your business.

Our Services:

Isca Surveying can provide the following services:

• Cost planning and procurement advice
• Schematic and detailed design, cost estimating and budgets
• Pre-start meeting agreement of terms
• Site surveys, re-measures and identification and pricing of variations
• Contractors estimates
• Take-offs and Bill of Quantity preparation
• Tender preparation, negotiation, review and recommendation
• Pre and Post contract cost, time and quality control
• Progress valuations
• Claims evaluation & preparation
• Cost reporting and forecasting
• Cost value reconciliations, budgets and land purchase exercises
• Final accounts incorporating re-measurement of variations
• Insurance loss adjusting
• Contract advice, dispute resolution, preparation and agreement of claims
• Contract specific site quantity surveyor to undertake all roles and responsibilities.

Our experience of working in the full range of sectors means that we are fully experienced and qualified to deal with a wide range of clients ranging from sub-contractors to developers. We have worked on projects from £10k to £2.5m.

We ensure that we reflect your individual business needs and can work on an ad-hoc or longer-term basis with you, either on or off site. We are happy to discuss your individual requirements with you. We offer competitive rates. Please contact us for further information.

Recent Projects:

Isca Surveying Services works with many clients to deliver professional quantity surveying and estimating solutions. Our recent success stories include:

£1.4m Groundworks Project - Ensuring the groundworks final account for an industrial park in Okehampton, Devon achieved profit margin, as the order value doubled to reflect the works completed on site.

£1.2m Refurbishment Project - Achieving an additional £250k revenue by revaluing and re-submitting the final account six months after practical completion on a refurbishment project of 109 kitchens and bathrooms in Penzance, Cornwall.

£120k Bricklaying Project – Achieving an additional £30k following the re-measurement and submission of the final account for bricklaying works at a new hotel in Exeter, Devon.

£600k Refurbishment and New Build Project – Remeasurement and valuation, incorporating cost savings for the client, of the groundworks package on a complex refurbishment and new build project for a primary school in Plymouth, Devon.