Cost management
Maximise value and minimise your risks by estimating, allocating, and controlling costs before your project starts.
Realising value for money for your project
Whether your project is a new development or an existing building or even the need for specialist cost consultancy advice, we bring unparalleled expertise and cost insight across all markets and sectors. Through intelligent budgeting, active value management and dynamic capital planning, we establish a strong base of commercial rigour. Using in-depth reporting the latest technology and controlled contract management we offer cost efficiency, enhanced control and reduced risk as standard.
Featured services
Pre-contract cost management
Bring methodical, analytical and collaborative approaches to development, maximise value generation, align spend with value, mitigate risk and bring certainty of outcome through our technology, processes and people.
Post-contract cost management
Keep close control on the costs of your project. Early identification of cost risk, unexpected change, cashflow and supply chain challenges are proactively forecast to keep your project on track.
Reinstatement cost assessment
Get expert advice to protect you from the risk associated with over insurance - unnecessary and excessive premiums; and under insurance - your business continuity risk.
Feasibility and viability studies
Establish robust construction budgets, with minimal information at the outset/inception of a project to bring assurance that optimises value, minimises risk and identifies delivery challenges.
Development monitoring
Bring certainty to your development(s) through cost and commercial monitoring, validating at every stage and identifying risk mitigatory strategies to realise successful outcomes.
Cost benchmarking
Ensure accuracy, insight, certainty and understanding – whether setting budgets or challenging cost advice from others – through our holistic and granular benchmark data.
Capital allowances
Reveal opportunities from complex tax legislation to obtain potential relief, recover capital costs and secure valuable cash flow advantages from your capital investment programme.
Capital planning
Establish a viable and accurate baseline budget aligned to validated benchmarks to provide a frame of reference to maximise efficiency of your property or portfolio spend programmes.
Research & insights
How new work environments can reduce stress
A new study shows that the office environment has a strong influence on well-being and productivity
Bricks-and-mortar’s new must have: digital experiences
Real estate leaders must cater to digital expectations or risk feeling out of the loop
Will data center fires spark tighter safety rules?
Recent data center fires raise serious concerns about the adequacy of current fire safety measures
The sustainable asset advantage: unlocking value for a green future
Real estate insight by Elaine O’Connor, Head of Project & Development Services Egypt & Africa
Office life has changed. How are firms responding?
New data about how people work is driving changes in office design
Why more office retrofits are working around employees
Landlords mindful of NZC benefits aren’t waiting for tenants to vacate spaces
Office makeovers: giving employees what they want
Companies are offering a wider variety of spaces that aid focused work
How companies are addressing rising office fit-out costs
Getting people back in the office requires investment in technology and adaptable spaces
Why data centers could hit obsolescence sooner than you think
AI and emerging technologies risk leaving current projects short of power
Liquid cooling enters the mainstream in data centers
Data center operators are swapping air cooling for liquid cooling as rack densities climb
Why investors are banking on conversions
Repurposing offices to other real estate types is on the rise
How next-generation real estate projects are shaping cities
Cutting-edge developments are delivering smarter, greener, more human-centric cities
Why landlords are repurposing real estate
A historical shift in how we work and live is driving new opportunities
How urban greening projects are underpinning sustainable cities
Initiatives to increase green space and improve biodiversity are part of a more holistic sustainability agenda looking beyond decarbonization
How workplace designers are getting people back in the office
Fewer desks, soundproof booths and a new approach to projects are enabling hybrid work
Opportunity through obsolescence
Protecting and creating value in properties and places at risk of stranding
Where next for student housing?
As the undersupply of Purpose-Built Student Accommodation (PBSA) deepens, the sector has an opportunity to explore new models to help meet growing demand
Manufacturing Site Selection Scorecard
Evaluate and Compare Potential Locations for Your Next Manufacturing Facility
The future of real estate
JLL’s new global research program explores the impact of economic, societal, technological and geopolitical megatrends on the future of real estate
Made in Poland - An Investment Guide for Manufacturing
The report aims to offer holistic guidance to UK manufacturing companies that are considering establishing their presence or expanding their businesses in Poland
Warehousing Retrofitting
Learn how warehouse retrofitting bridges legislation and stakeholder initiatives. Explore JLL's report on retrofit options for green compliance and occupier demand.
Financial Services: Future of Innovation Hubs
Download JLL’s banking research on the future of financial services innovation hubs
EMEA Fit-out Cost Guide 2024
Understand workplace trends impacting office design and associated fit-out costs.
Is hybrid really working?
Our latest research examines the evolution of employee expectations and corporate hybrid strategies. It is informed by the results of employee surveys carried out by our Global Benchmarking team.
Office to residential conversion
Housing shortages, rising vacancy rates on the office market, or the sustainable use of land and resources - the arguments for land for land conversion are manifold
The Future of the Central Business District
There are five immediate challenges facing the central business district. Our Future of the CBD report uncovers how cities are reinventing themselves to find growth opportunities.
Green Leasing 2.0
Existing lease structures are no longer fit for purpose. The owner-occupier relationship requires a major reset, which calls for a new form of contract and engagement.
Retrofitting Buildings to be Future-Fit
The journey to decarbonization
EMEA Fit-Out Cost Guide 2022/23
What are the macro factors affecting fit-out costs, and what is the cost of doing nothing?
Countdown to Net Zero: Sustainability in the Data Centre Sector
Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) is on the horizon, but what does this mean for the data centre industry?
Related solutions
Development management
Get advice on master planning, project feasibility, financing for ground-up construction, build-to-suit, or complex redevelopment.
Project management
Transform spaces where people live, work and play. Realise your strategic goals, completing your project on time and within budget.
Project managementProject monitoring
Manage and oversee the developers in charge of your project (forward sale or lease).
Programme management
Consistently manage and co-ordinate multiple concurrent projects across your portfolio.
Digital solutions
Harness the power of our digital solutions to increase accuracy, efficiency and reduce costs.
Net zero carbon design
Establish and manage your decarbonization pathway across your portfolio.
Net zero carbon design
Design & deliver projects
Breathe life into old space, or create something brand new, building value into every detail.
