Research On Total Cost Consultation

Rapid growth of investment in fixed assets in China drives forward the rapid development of engineering consultation enterprise, and raises taller requirement for engineering consultation. Expanding the range of consultation services, then providing total cost consultation service for client is the development trend for engineering consultation enterprise in China. Take cost consultation enterprise as an example, development time of cost consultation enterprise in China is short, because of the lack of standard operation specification and consultation tools, Most of the cost consultation enterprise provide the consulting service only focus on a certain stage of the projects, and still does not have the ability to provide total cost consultation service, also can not provide individualized consultation service according to customer’s needs.However, foreign construction cost consultation enterprise can provide comprehensive, total cost consultation service because of its mature consultation tools and methods, perfect information system and the standard business operation specification. The thesis analyzes international engineering consulting benchmarking enterprise—Davis Langdon and Seah (DLS) engineering consultation enterprise of the quantity surveying&construction cost management business, that is to say, total cost consultation business inland in order to provide technical reference and help for the total cost consultation business in China.The thesis first defines the concept and characteristic of total cost consultation business and sums up its characteristic are standardization and integration, through further detailed literature review, the thesis gives key point to realize standardization and integration of the total cost consultation business. Then the thesis analyses DLS’s realization methods of standardization and integration of quantity surveying&construction cost management business to find out the solution to key points of the standardization and integration.Through the above research, business operation, personnel management and business checklist in DLS ensure the realization of standardization in quantity surveying&construction cost management business, structure of the organization, consultation tools and information system in DLS ensure the realization of integration in quantity surveying&construction cost management business. During development of total cost consultation business in China’s engineering consultation enterprise, which can provide experience for China to promote development of engineering cost consultation industry.