We can help the client decide on the essential and the inessential.

Consultants are often attached to a particular product or approach because they like it or it makes life easier for them.

Good design does not have to be expensive.

Question whether "because it has always been done that way" is a sufficient justification.

Most consultants will now work to a fixed budget cost but costs are likely to be harder to control in an innovative project with a famous name designer.

It is worth spending extra time to get the design right before tendering the work or negotiating it with a contractor.

Change almost always costs once the contract is let.