Talani Quantity Surveyors
Property Investments in Cape Town

DV Talani brings unique skills to the property advisory sector, it combines traditional quantity surveying skills with extensive investment banking and property finance knowledge, and as a result, giving clients advice that takes into consideration a wider range of the client’s stakeholders.

Talani Quantity Surveyors provides an independent, professional property and construction cost advice service to built environment clients through the professional business of quantity surveying. Talani Quantity Surveyors, established in March 2001, combines its traditional quantity surveying skills with extensive investment banking and property knowledge to provide its client base with a value-added cost management and property advisory service. The consultancy has been awarded many projects within the built environment, ranging from small to large, and covering a wide variety of categories of work. MISSION Our goal is to attain service excellence, acknowledged by satisfied clients and proven by successful projects. We aim for the establishment of an affordable and viable built environment, and the empowerment of human resources, so that the quality of life is enhanced for all. VISION Our vision is to strive to provide quality, professional services that make us the consultancy of choice. Through our detailed knowledge of construction, specialist skills and professional expertise, we deliver a practical and commercial cost management approach to all property and construction projects, by keeping pace with the latest technology, legislative issues and trends in the property market. ETHICS Talani functions according to a code of ethics grounded in uncompromising integrity. Both principals and personnel are bound to a code of conduct which includes integrity, loyalty, reliability, truthfulness, commitment and mutual respect. We are also fully committed to the codes of conduct laid down by our affiliated professional bodies, and no comprise on any of these principles will be tolerated. CONSTRUCTION COST MANAGEMENT QUANTITY SURVEYING CONSTRUCTION COST MANAGEMENT Quantity surveying is the core discipline for our business. As you would expect with our history and breath of project experience, we have the processes and people to provide a rigorous and innovative service offering focused on your project objectives. It’s where the WTP success story began over 60 years ago. It doesn’t matter what kind of project we get involved in, or its procurement method. We have the processes and people to provide rigorous and innovative services. It covers all aspects of the project, specifically designed to help our clients in make informed decisions. Our approach and methodology help them mitigate project risk and successfully complete the delivery of their projects. We believe that it’s more important to optimise the capital works budget than to solely minimise cost. This methodology has been developed to ensure unnecessary costs are eliminated and to provide the best value within the agreed budget. Talani is an experienced provider of project cost monitoring services to government agencies, institutional investors, property funds and end users. Our service provides clients with ongoing independent professional advice on the construction risks associated with a development project, their likely impacts and the measures available to avoid, mitigate or transfer them. We provide clients with reassurance through our project cost monitoring process. An Independent Certifier is someone jointly appointed by the two parties of a contractual agreement to provide independent contractual and cost advice during all phases of a project to ensure compliance with the project brief/contractual obligation and provide dispute resolution services where required. Our service provides a concise report with detailed cost analysis and recommendations for insurable value.