In business with Exigere: Work is only hard when you’re not enjoying it

By Dave Rogers2022-03-30T06:00:00

Founding partner Dan Fryer tells Dave Rogers about the challenges and opportunities of life as a QS in today’s turbulent market

“It’s a difficult year to be a QS.” Dan Fryer is speaking against a backdrop of the war in Ukraine and the lingering impact of the pandemic.

“Viability [of schemes] is being squeezed by a number of issues. There hasn’t been the rental growth and costs have gone up.”

Like so many, the founding partner at London cost consultant Exigere is shocked by what is going in Ukraine. From a business perspective, he is worried that the war will put the brakes on the sector’s ongoing recovery. After two years of covid – and before that the hiatus caused by Brexit – the industry was finally looking forward to the return of some sort of normality.

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