Independent renovation management
One person responsible, from the first viewing to the day you get the keys back.
Before you commit
The question nobody answers until you have already spent money.
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Select at least one item of work to see a range.
A range built from published 2026 Dutch market rates. It is not a quote. Your building decides the real number: its structure, its foundations, its services and what the municipality permits. Finding that out is the first thing we do, and the cheapest part of the job.
It was in everything until the 1994 ban. The survey comes before any notifiable work, and runs about €350–700.
Timber piles are common in this period and rot when the water table drops. Repairs average €92,000 and insurance will not cover it.
Which makes insulation the biggest single label jump on the table, and the quickest to pay for itself.
The ban only arrived in 1994, so a survey comes first on anything notifiable. About €350–700.
Timber piles were still going in early in this period, especially in the west of the country.
Cavity insulation did not become standard until the mid seventies, so a full label step is sitting there.
The ban came in 1994, so a survey is still required before notifiable work.
Typically under 4cm in the cavity and roof. Upgrading pays, though less than it would in an older house.
Standards tightened sharply that year, so the fabric is sound and energy work becomes a choice rather than a repair.
Anything finished after the 1994 ban is very unlikely to contain it. One survey and one cost line disappear.
Situations
If one of them is yours, we can tell you what it costs and how long it takes before you commit to anything.
It has been listed a while and the asking price works. What you cannot tell is whether the work behind it is forty thousand or a hundred and forty, whether the layout you want is allowed, and what turns up once a floor comes open.
We survey and cost it before you bid, so you know what you are buying.
Three options, three very different numbers. The energy label affects both the rent you are legally allowed to charge and the price the property fetches, and the right answer is rarely the obvious one.
We model all three, then deliver whichever you choose.
A poor label means higher bills, a lower valuation and a rent ceiling set by a points count. After 2030 the worst labels may not be let at all. The measures are known; the order, the cost and the grants are not.
We plan the route to a better label and manage the work.
Nothing suitable to buy, and moving costs a fortune anyway. So it becomes an extension, a loft conversion, or a serious rethink of the space you already have. It needs a design, a permit and someone to run it.
We take it from idea to permit to finished.
Splitting a property means municipal consent, a notarial deed, sound separation between units, separate services and a build that satisfies all of it. Most of the difficulty sits on paper, not on site.
We run the consent process and the works together.
The prices are thousands apart, none of them covers quite the same scope, and the cheapest is cheap for a reason you cannot see. The money you spend later is hiding in the exclusions.
We compare them properly and tell you what is missing.
We are not builders. We are the person who makes builders deliver.
The only side we are on is yours.
What we do
We survey the building properly: structure, foundations, services, damp, and whatever the previous owner painted over. Then we test what the rules allow against what you want.
An architect if the job needs one, a specification if it does not, then permit applications and grant applications handled with the municipality directly.
Every trade is directed from one point. We inspect against the contract, chase the sequence so nobody is waiting on anybody, and keep a live budget you can look at any time.
A formal inspection against the contract, a snag list, and money held back until the list reaches zero.
Worked examples
Five ordinary Dutch jobs, priced at current market rates. Open any of them and change it to your own building.
Kitchen, bathroom, layout, floors and both services, in one continuous programme.
A pre-war flat where the bathroom could not be touched without renewing what feeds it.
Structure and finishes only. No new kitchen, no new bathroom, and a far smaller bill for it.
Why NNMC
They go wrong earlier. Nobody wrote down what was agreed, a decision sat for three weeks, two trades each thought the other had it.
In enterprise technology a slipped date is a tracked number reported to executives, not a shrug on site. Years running exactly that at a major corporation, accountable end to end for scope, budget, programme and stakeholders. SAFe and SSPO II certified.
Specialist teams brought in on contract, not on the payroll. Stakeholders who want incompatible things. A fixed budget, a hard date, and one person who answers for the result. That is a product owner's job description. The material changes; the discipline does not.
In our world what you asked for is a controlled artefact with acceptance criteria against it. On most building jobs it is a chat on site that two people later remember differently. That single difference is where the majority of variations are born.
The difference
Most people offering construction supervision came up through the trades. That is real knowledge and we rely on it every day, in the contractors we hire. But that is knowledge of how a building goes up, and your project rarely fails there. It fails in the management of it, which is a separate profession with its own methods, and that is the one we trained in.
| The usual construction supervisor | NNMC |
|---|---|
| Learned the job on site, one trade at a time | Learned delivery as a discipline in its own right, then applied it to building |
| Watches the work and raises problems | Owns the scope, the budget and the date, and answers for all three |
| Agreements made verbally as the job goes | Requirements written down, agreed and version controlled |
| Costs reconciled when the invoices arrive | A live cost forecast, and no variation ordered without written approval |
| Reports when there is something to report | Structured written reporting on a fixed rhythm, good news and bad |
| Knows how a building goes up | Also knows how the asset is valued, financed and reported on |
| Often paid by, or working alongside, the contractor | No trades, no commission, no interest in any contractor |
| Works in Dutch | Works in English, Dutch and Russian |
The result is not that we know more about bricks. It is that your project gets run the way a corporation runs a delivery it cannot afford to lose: a written brief, a controlled scope, a live budget, a fixed reporting rhythm and one person who carries all of it.
Why it matters
A listing, a set of quotes, a floor plan or just an address. We will tell you what we think it needs, roughly what that costs, and whether it is worth doing. No charge for the conversation.
Enquiries in English, Dutch or Russian.
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