Building Economists

The Building Economist Team has responsibility for providing cost advice for construction and refurbishment projects. As part of building a better Worcestershire our aim is to ensure that the County Council obtains optimum value for money.

Main duties of the Team:

• Provide financial and economic advice to support the Corporate Capital planning process. This involves budget estimating, production of capital/targeted bids, cost planning and maintenance of a cost information library.
• Development of an whole life cost approach to option appraisal
• Provide a Quantity Surveying response to Design Unit queries and facilitate consultant Quantity Surveyor support services
• Provide support to the Capital Programme Manager in the preparation and monitoring of the County Council budgets/cash flows for capital building projects
• Contribute to the development of CUPID as a corporate management information system.
• Maintain on-going strategic development for Best Value, Sustainability with regard to ensuring that clients obtain long term value, supporting the Council's wider Social/Environmental policy commitments

To benchmark service standards against public/private sector contempories, to ensure quality standards and identify development opportunities

Team Members

Contact information

Paul Thatcher BSc(Hons) MRICS, Chief Building Economist
Property Services
Phone 01905 766431
Fax 01905 766498
Email pthatcher@worcestershire.gov.uk