DIM Engineering Independent review · Western Australia

Process and fees

How it works

Short version: you send me what you have, we talk for half an hour, and you get a written opinion for a price agreed in advance.

The process

Three steps, no retainer

  1. Send me what you have

    Contract, drawings, specification, claim, report — whatever the question is about. PDF, photos of paper, a shared folder; it does not matter. If you are not sure what is relevant, send more.

  2. A short call

    Twenty to thirty minutes to understand what you are worried about and what decision you are facing. Perth afternoon is Israel morning, so this is easier than it sounds.

  3. A written opinion

    In plain English: what the documents say, what is missing, what I would ask, and what I would not sign without. Usually within three business days. Fixed fee, agreed before I start.

Fees

Fixed, and quoted before I start

I do not quote a fee before seeing the documents, because the honest answer depends on how much there is to read. What I will do is look at what you send, tell you what the review would cost, and only then start.

  • A fixed fee per review, not an open-ended hourly rate
  • If the scope turns out larger than it looked, I come back to you before doing the work
  • If a short answer is genuinely enough, I will say so instead of inventing a scope
  • Fees are quoted and invoiced in Australian dollars

What I will tell you for free

Whether the question you have is one I can actually answer from documents, or whether it needs someone standing in the building. That conversation costs nothing, and sometimes it ends with me telling you to call a local surveyor instead.

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What this is — and what it isn't

I am a civil engineer registered in Israel, not in Western Australia. I do not attend site, I do not certify works, and I do not sign anything that a WA-registered practitioner must sign.

What I do is read what you have been handed — the contract, the drawings, the specification, the progress claim, the defect report — and tell you in plain English what it says, what is missing from it, and what to ask before you sign or pay.

Where something needs a local registered practitioner — a building surveyor, a structural certifier, a site inspection — I will say so. Often the most useful thing I give you is the exact list of what to ask them for.

Contact

Send me the documents and the question

Tell me what you are facing and what you have to decide. I will tell you whether I can help, and what it would cost, before any work starts.

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