A quantity surveying practice built specifically for builders who price their own work — and who don't have an estimator to hand it to.
There is a gap in the Australian market that anyone who has worked on both sides of it recognises immediately. Large builders have estimating departments. Large consultancies serve large builders. In between sit several thousand businesses turning over $1m to $20m who price every tender themselves, usually after hours, usually under time pressure, and who cannot justify a $120,000 salary for the volume of work they put out.
Those builders don't need a consultancy relationship. They need a measured bill, at a known price, by Friday. Structmate does that and not much else.
Structmate is led by Gurleen Singh, a quantity surveying professional working in Australian construction. The practical consequence for you is that the person reviewing your bill spends their working week in tender programs, subcontractor quotes and margin decisions — not in a document-production shop measuring drawings for clients they never speak to.
That shapes how the work is done. Bills are organised the way builders actually price, in construction sequence. Assumptions are written down rather than left implied. Queries are batched because interruptions cost you more than they cost us. And the answer to "do I need the expensive option" is sometimes no.
Measurement is a production task, and Structmate uses a supported production model so that turnaround stays at five days and fees stay where they are. What does not get delegated is professional judgement: scope decisions, how ambiguity is treated, what carries a provisional sum, and the final review of every bill before it is issued. Every document that leaves with the Structmate name on it has been checked line by line against the drawings.
Being direct about that matters more than sounding bigger than we are. You are engaging a small, deliberately focused practice — not an anonymous offshore shop, and not a consultancy with a floor of graduates.
If you ask for something outside that list you'll get a referral rather than an attempt.
| Trading name | Structmate |
|---|---|
| Legal entity | Structmate Pty Ltd |
| ABN | 76 686 135 302 |
| Based in | Sydney, New South Wales |
| Service area | Australia-wide, delivered remotely |
| [email protected] |
The simplest way to judge whether this works for you is a single tender. Fixed fee, five days, no ongoing commitment either way.
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