The Origins
Year 2010Architect Artur Sousa founds Dimscale®. Our aim: to be a company with a core business in the Quantity Surveying area focused on Architecture offices. But there was a turning point when our differentiated services identified flaws in the market which we saw were tackling with our customers expenditures.
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Arch. Artur Sousa - Founder
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Approach
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To talk about Architecture and Construction without ever mentioning Cost overruns is basically impossible. The best laid plans of mice and men often go astray and the dynamics of architecture and construction are extremely complex. Over the years Project Management consultants have been integrating Cost Management into their services, in an effort to fill this market flaw with a proper solution. As a result, DIMSCALE® has been developing for nearly a decade now, a pioneer Cost Management model mainly performed by Architects: The Architecture Cost Management® concept. As so happens, we have found that it is relatively easy to train an Architect to become a Cost Manager. however almost impossible to enlighten a financial professional that the key to a Project`s success goes beyond numbers. An Architect sees many other variables that can have consequences on the Project`s functionality, maintenance, quality needs and concept! |
Concept
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Architecture Cost Management® manages the Project at an architectural category level having as main objectives, the optimization and reduction of the capital invested plus control of all costs throughout the implementation, development and execution phases, allowing continuous improvement to be made.
Offering high cost savings while keeping focus on safeguarding the architectural concept, combining the science and methodologies of Cost Engineering, Value Management and Cost Benefit Analysis. DIMSCALE® presents its customers with a powerful tool like no other, providing a unique, effective and valuable Cost Management service, to achieve lower costs and enhanced performance whilst keeping the focus on safeguarding the architectural concept and the final quality of the Project |
Talks
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Featured in Oporto Design Concept, 2019
Featured in ISTEC, Architecture Design, Lisbon 2019
Refurbishment Festival, Lisbon 2018
Architecture Magazine, Autumn 2018
Featured in San Jose Construction and Building Mag., Lisbon 2017
ISTEC Weekend Architecture Festival, Lisbon 2016
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