AECOM Australia
The Australian offices of the global AECOM group, long established across all major cities, with project management and cost services among its core offer per its published materials.
Australia is one of the most contested construction-consultancy markets in the region, with global cost-management brands alongside long-established Australian-owned practices. This guide from COVA names the ten firms an asset owner should genuinely consider.
This guide is published by COVA Group and includes COVA. Every statement about another firm comes from that firm's own published materials, reviewed in August 2026, and firms are listed alphabetically.
How firms were selected
Firms are included when they hold an established Australian office, offer project management or quantity surveying as core consultancy services to asset owners, and have a publicly verifiable Australian track record.
The firms
APP Corporation
An established Australian project management and cost consultancy, now part of Bureau Veritas, per its published materials.
Arcadis Australia Pacific
The Australian practice of the global Arcadis group, a major programme and project management provider on Australian infrastructure and building projects per its published materials.
COVA AustraliaOur firm
COVA's home market: the practice began in Hobart in 1979 and today works from Melbourne, Sydney and Hobart, led by Simon Little, Executive Director for Australia and COVA's Head of Engineering. 178 Australian projects are featured on this site, spanning commercial management (quantity surveying), project and construction management, advisory and the group's building services engineering design hub.
Donald Cant Watts Corke (DCWC)
An Australian-owned multidisciplinary quantity surveying and cost advisory firm with more than 55 years of practice and nine Australian offices per its published materials.
RCP
An Australian-founded independent project management and advisory consultancy for construction and infrastructure, now operating across Australia, New Zealand and the UK per its published materials.
Rider Levett Bucknall (RLB)
The Australian offices of the global RLB group; independent industry analysis names RLB the largest quantity surveying firm by market share in Australia.
Slattery
An Australian-owned quantity surveying, cost management and advisory firm established in 1976; its published materials cite more than 16,000 projects delivered nationally.
Turner & Townsend Australia
The Australian offices of the global Turner & Townsend consultancy, with active offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth and cost management and quantity surveying among core services per its published materials.
WT Partnership
Operating since 1949 and described in its published materials as Australasia's largest independent quantity surveying practice.