Engaged directly by the owner and independent of the builder and design team, we verify work on site and raise issues while they're still visible and economical to fix.
Construction Quality Advisory gives owners an independent line of sight into what's actually happening on site — separate from the builder's and design team's own reporting. Because we hold no commercial relationship with the builder, our findings are reported without conflict of interest.
Issues are identified early, while they remain visible and inexpensive to rectify — protecting build quality, programme and budget before problems are covered up by subsequent trades.
Independent site inspections and quality audits
Defect identification and early rectification advice
Specification and compliance verification
Owner-facing reporting, independent of builder interests
Issue tracking through to resolution
Builders deliver. Consultants design. Superintendents administer. On most developments, no one is independently checking whether what's being built will actually perform, until it's too late.
Defects driven by construction execution, not design
Reliance on 'tick and flick' QA processes
Impacts asset performance and operating costs
Creates long-term remediation risk
Current project roles do not provide independent oversight of construction quality aligned to long-term asset performance.
Builders deliver
Consultants design
Superintendents administer
There is no independent quality function.
Our services focus on ensuring quality of the areas of your project that are covered up during construction but cause the largest latent defect issues.
Retention, shoring and water control
Concrete, steel and timber
Cladding, glazing and building envelopes
Roof systems, membranes and drainage
Fire rating and compartmentation
Sound insulation and transmission
Membranes and wet-area detailing
Mechanical, electrical, hydraulics and fire
Regular, on-site quality inspection and audit. Most projects have no independent check on this until it's too late.
Review of design for future quality issues. Issues caught on paper cost a fraction of the same issue found after construction starts.
Leadership of defect rectification on complex or distressed projects. Without dedicated leadership, defects and costs compound while responsibility stays unclear.
Periodic inspection and reporting aligned to investor's requirements. Many investors rely solely on the builder's own reporting.
Construction Quality Standard development
Defect trend analysis
Continuous improvement
Portfolio-wide consistency
Monitor delivery
Design review
Clerk of Works
Risk-based inspections
Prototype and mock-up review
Completion and handover support
Agree inspection frequency, standards and reporting lines directly with the owner.
Independent inspections against drawings, specification and applicable standards.
Clear, evidenced reporting to the owner — while items are still economical to fix.
Track rectification through to close-out ahead of practical completion.
103 Apartment Luxury Retirement Living Development
St. Clare has set a new benchmark for retirement living, in quality, service offering and sales records. Stonebank has been intimately involved in the project since its inception, and in addition to other roles on the project, were appointed to provide Clerk of Works services as the Principal's Construction Advisor.
Stonebank provided regular inspections, championed plans for key activities such as the creation of a project specific waterproofing management plan and provided oversight over benchmarking and prototyping.
Key successes include the overall built quality of the development, and the buy-in from the construction contractor, Hacer.
530+ construction issues identified and resolved before completion, and zero latent defects at handover.
"It filled an obvious gap in the meticulous approach we had taken to every other aspect of the project."
— Liz Hickey, Chief Retirement Living Officer, VMCH