CNP to beef up QSing

The 100-strong firm has just five QSs but plans to employ up to 15 by the end of 2007. Until now CNP has been better known as a building surveyor.

The new QSs will provide cost consultancy and they will also bolster CNP’s expanding technical group, which provides environmental services. CNP expects this group, currently 11-strong, to triple in three years.

The firm is on target to hit record turnover of around £12m for this financial year. Last year its turnover was £8.1m. The consultant has secured £3m in new work during the first two months of this year.

CNP recently opened an office in Dublin. CNP managing director David Nurser said the firm was likely to open further branches in the 2007/8 financial year in Edinburgh and the Southwest in Cardiff, Bristol or both cities.

Now we’re getting actual quantity surveying instructions and business from banks

David Nurser, MD, CNP

CNP is headquartered in Esher, Surrey, and has offices in London, Leeds, Glasgow and Manchester.

Nurser said the move to ramp up cost consultancy services was due partly to demand from customers and also because the technical group was proving a lucrative business line.

He said: “We first brought in QSs to support our feasibility advice. We were subbing this out before but decided to bring it in house so we had better control... Now we’re getting actual quantity surveying instructions and business from banks.”

CNP has won a deal from Capmark Bank, formerly GMAC, to provide due diligence on 80 commercial property sites in Germany. Capmark finances property transactions in the German market. CNP’s other services include project management and a range of surveying services.