Practice

A Newport practice, sized to the person who does the work.

James Professional Services is Jamie Martin’s company. The work is commercial: estimates, bills, procurement, tenders, quantity surveying and project management. There is no larger office hiding behind the name.

Jamie is based in Rogerstone and studied at the University of the West of England. The company was incorporated on 23 March 2021. Clients and contractors are across South Wales and into Bristol — healthcare, education, heritage and civic work, and ordinary commercial building when the documents need to be right.

Appointments are taken on either side of the contract. If there is a conflict with a project already in the office, it will be said at the start rather than discovered at the first valuation.

The useful number is the one somebody else can rebuild from the notes.

Where cost usually moves

Studio photographs, not records of the projects. They stand in for the things that change a price: the frame, the connection, the volume.

  • Board-marked in-situ concrete in raking light

    Concrete — volume, sequence, temporary works

  • Painted steel splice with a copper shim

    Steel — connections, fire protection, programme

  • Empty sports hall with a timber floor and clerestory light

    Volume — span, height, and the finishes that take a hit

01

A conversation

What is being built, who you are acting for, and what decision the number has to support.

02

A scope

The services, the stage, and the documents you already have. The scope note on this site is a start, not a fee.

03

An appointment

Agreed in writing, with the deliverables named. Then the measure.