Selective, principal-led advice for landowners, small developers, investors, and project owners making high-stakes development and construction decisions.
Chichest is first and foremost a property development business. We also work with selected clients who need experienced commercial, construction, and development input before committing to a site, going to tender, appointing a builder, or making a critical delivery decision.
This is not general consulting. It is practical, commercially direct advice from principals who have developed, procured, and built — and who understand where decisions go wrong.
Discuss Your ProjectWe work with clients who are facing a specific decision — not those looking for ongoing management support or broad business advice. If you have a site to assess, a tender to review, a builder to appoint, or a delivery structure to determine, contact us before the commitment is made.
Five focused services. Each addresses a specific type of risk, decision, or commercial exposure in development or construction.
An independent review of a development opportunity before capital is committed — site assumptions, development potential, cost and revenue logic, delivery risk, and the commercial case. We tell you whether the numbers are realistic, where the risk sits, and what needs to be resolved before proceeding.
The cheapest tender is rarely the safest. We review builder pricing for scope gaps, exclusions, qualifications, and provisional sums that inflate costs post-contract. We also help small developers run a structured tender process — preparing a strategy, managing queries, comparing responses properly, and making a more informed builder selection.
How a project is procured and delivered has direct consequences for cost, programme, and risk exposure. We advise on procurement structure, scope control, subcontractor engagement, and how to avoid the commercial leakage that erodes margin between tender and handover.
Practical assessment of delivery options — traditional construction versus modular, design and construct versus construct-only, staging, sequencing, and buildability. These decisions have significant commercial implications and are best made before design is locked in.
Senior construction and commercial leadership without a full-time hire. We provide fractional Construction Director, Head of Projects, or Senior Delivery Advisor support — for businesses that need experienced oversight of procurement, programme, commercial management, or project recovery without a permanent executive appointment.
Most advisors come from one side of the fence. Chichest's principals have worked across development feasibility, procurement, construction delivery, commercial management, and contract administration — on residential developments, mixed-use commercial projects, and major government and defence construction across multiple countries.
That combination — understanding both how a development is conceived and how it is actually built — is what makes the advisory relevant.
About ChichestWe have assessed sites as developers and costed them as constructors. We know how assumptions get made, and where they fail.
We have run tender processes, reviewed builder pricing, and managed contracts. We know what exclusions and qualifications cost when they land post-contract.
Most project failures are commercial and procurement failures, not construction failures. Identifying the exposure before commitment is what the advisory is for.
We work on a small number of advisory engagements at any time. We are selective about the work we take on, and direct in the advice we give.
We understand the project, issue, or decision you are facing. No charge for an initial conversation.
We review the relevant information — feasibility, tender documents, commercial position, delivery structure — and form a clear view of where the risk sits.
We provide practical recommendations. We tell you what we think, not what you want to hear. You decide what to do with the input.
If you are considering a site, reviewing a tender, appointing a builder, or concerned about project cost, programme, or delivery risk — contact Chichest for a confidential initial discussion.
Discuss Your Project