Development consultancy and project management

A project management consultant works for the owner, not for the contractor. Depending on the appointment, the consultant tests feasibility, writes the brief and budget, coordinates the architect and engineers, prepares the tender, compares quotes and recommends a contractor, then measures work, checks payments, prices changes and reports progress through construction to the final account. The owner keeps every decision; the consultant makes sure each one is taken with complete information. Avenir provides this for apartment, commercial, mixed-use and large residential projects.

Before the land use or the design is fixed, because that is when a change costs least. A consultant can test permissible area, parking, unit mix, construction cost, phasing and cash flow before detailed design begins. Appointed at tender, a consultant still controls the scope, the price and the contract terms. Once construction has started the options narrow: Avenir rarely joins at that stage, and then only as a paid project review for an owner who is open to changes.

Avenir’s feasibility studies test five things in order: the authority’s rules for the site, the building that fits within them, the market for what it would contain, the cost of building it and the cash flow over time. Each test is measured against the site, not assumed, and the study ends in one recommendation: go, revise, phase or stop. It is written to support an investment decision, not as a general market report.

By setting controls before construction and holding to them during it: complete drawings before tender, one scope for every bidder, a baseline programme, payment against measured work, changes priced and approved before they are built, and regular cost and progress reports. These controls do not stop prices moving, but they make every change visible early, while there is still time to decide.

Yes, within the scope of the appointment. Avenir coordinates submission documents and authority comments, prepares or checks the BOQ, issues the tender package, answers bidders’ queries, compares bids line by line, interviews contractors and recommends one. The owner makes the final choice. Tender once the drawings and specifications are complete; contractors asked to price incomplete drawings add exclusions and allowances that return later as variations.

By testing the scheme before it is fixed. Core position, unit depth, parking layout, facade cost and amenity choices change both the saleable area and the cost of building it. A consultant compares the alternatives while they are still drawings, sets the design against what the market buys or rents, and keeps the budget and programme attached to every design decision.

Yes, on projects where Avenir is already advising on design and management. Selling a project puts our name on it, so we take on sales and marketing strategy only for developers and projects we know from the inside. The work covers positioning, unit mix, pricing logic, sales material and launch planning, built from the same numbers as the feasibility study.

No. Avenir does not take part in competitive bids or prepare unpaid proposals to win work. We are appointed directly, after a free first consultation and a written fee proposal. It also means that when we run a tender on your behalf, Avenir is never one of the bidders.

We do not take over sites that are already under construction. If you are open to changing what is not working, you can appoint us to review the project: we compare the work on site with the drawings and with the payments made, identify the risks to cost, programme and quality, and recommend what to change, in order of priority.

Yes. Overseas enquiries are answered on WhatsApp first, on priority, followed by a video call on Google Meet or Zoom at a time that suits you. Through the appointment we check drawings, quotes and payments on your behalf and send written reports at the interval your appointment sets, so each decision reaches you with the information needed to make it.

Against a written scope. The first consultation is free of charge. After it, you receive a fee proposal within two working days that names what is included: the stages, the documents and the reporting. Fees depend on the size and type of project and on the stages you appoint us for, so we do not publish a rate.

Feasibility studies and development advice for sites across Pakistan, and project management on site in Lahore, Islamabad and Rawalpindi. Avenir’s offices are at 139, CCA, DHA Phase 5, Lahore, and 101, Luxus Mall, Gulberg Greens, Islamabad.