MEP Cost Experience
Projects worked on
Mega Watt (MW) reviewed
Hotel rooms & apartments costed
m2 space costed
Our strength is a plug-in global network of consultants and specialists on demand. A rocket on the pad, latent energy building until our vision becomes reality.
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Wisdom
Our insights are rooted in deep understanding and experience.
We navigate complex markets with strategic foresight, providing our clients with unparalleled guidance to make informed decisions.
Integrity
A gentle yet firm nature.
We uphold the highest standards of integrity in our dealings, ensuring transparency and trustworthiness in every interaction.
Loyalty
We believe in forging lasting relationships.
We commit ourselves to our clients’ success, offering unwavering support and dedication. Your goals become our mission, and together, we journey toward greatness.
Stability
In a rapidly changing world, we provide a solid foundation.
At Immercial, we ensure our clients benefit from reliable strategies that stand the test of time, fostering a sense of security and trust.
Adaptability
Symbols of strength and adaption.
We embrace change and innovation, ensuring our strategies remain relevant and effective in evolving markets.
Community
A close-knit herd.
We prioritize collaboration and partnership, believing that collective strength leads to greater outcomes.
Respect
Symbolizing respect for nature and the built environment.
We advocate for ethical practices and sustainability, honoring our commitment to responsible business that benefits all.
Prosperity
Cultivating growth and prosperity.
Dedicated to helping our clients achieve their ambitions, creating sustainable success that enriches both their enterprises and the communities they serve.
Founder
Chris Mills
Founding Owner, Immercial
Bio
Chris is a creative strategist and commercial operator with a background spanning nearly every sector of the MEP industry. Before founding Immercial, he delivered award-winning campaigns and content programmes for some of the UK’s most ambitious property, lifestyle, and technology brands.
At Immercial, Chris leads with a clear vision: to bring sharper thinking, bolder ideas, and greater commercial impact to how companies tell their stories. He works directly with founders, marketers, the entire supply chain, and leadership teams to craft creative strategies.
Looking ahead, Chris’s ambition for Immercial goes beyond project-by-project success. The vision is to unite cost managers, QSs, and commercial consultants under one consistent framework. Delivering a recognisable standard of excellence, process and service, no matter where a project is located. Through strategic partnerships and future affiliations, Immercial aims to build a trusted global network of commercial professionals working under one brand, one system, and one promise: to elevate how the built environment delivers and values commercial intelligence.
Founder
Caroline Mills
Founding Director, Immercial
Bio
Caroline plays a foundational role in the evolution of Immercial, having been instrumental in shaping its early operational frameworks, commercial templates, document control systems, and financial infrastructure. From the outset, she has helped build the backbone of the business, ensuring that as the brand grows, it does so on solid, scalable systems.
Caroline’s presence is deeply felt across logistics, internal operations, document control, software testing, and strategic planning. All with an eye on how Immercial can scale through systems and trusted partnerships. Her work reflects a broader ambition to grow Immercial through a network of trusted individuals, family, friends, and aligned professionals, who share the values and belief in what the brand can become across the world.
Development Partner
Webexert
Development Partner
Bio
Webexert supports Immercial with targeted software development, working closely with our internal team to build out and refine elements of our platform. While the core framework, design, and architecture are led by Immercial, Webexert brings additional technical strength — helping us execute efficiently and scale smartly.
As part of our extended team, Webexert reflects our broader strategy: to grow not through headcount alone, but through trusted partnerships with talented, values-aligned professionals. Their contribution helps us stay agile and focused, while delivering robust, reliable technology to support our clients and vision across EMEA and beyond.
Consistent, Proven MEP Cost delivery – Every Time
Why Immercial matters:
1. “Over 70% of a project’s total lifecycle cost is determined at the concept and design stages.”
➔ We focus where it matters most — when the impact is greatest.
Source: Construction Industry Institute (CII) study.
2. “A £1 mistake in planning costs £100 to fix in construction — and £1,000 once built.”
➔ Precision today saves fortunes tomorrow.
Source: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) — Cost Analysis of Inadequate Interoperability in the U.S. Construction Industry.
3. “90% of project delays are traced back to decisions made before construction even starts.”
➔ The future is shaped by what you decide today.
Source: McKinsey Global Institute – Reinventing Construction: A Route to Higher Productivity.
4. “The earlier risks are identified, the cheaper they are to manage — early insight cuts risk costs by up to 80%.”
➔ We turn unknowns into knowns, before they cost you.
Source: Project Management Institute (PMI) – Pulse of the Profession Reports.
5. “Without early technical certainty, project costs can escalate by an average of 15–30% — even before ground is broken.”
➔ We build certainty, not just projects.
Source: KPMG Global Construction Survey.
Founded with a unique goal:
To revolutionize how the construction industry manages cost across MEP supply chains.
After years of witnessing the same mistakes and inefficiencies in cost organisation and commercial control, we saw the need for a smarter, scalable shift. Too many projects were derailed not by complexity, but by fragile cost foundations, unclear data, and inconsistent methods in the earliest stages.
Processes across the industry looked similar, yet rarely delivered truly efficient results. Cost plans, estimates, and pricing schedules were structured in ways that left clients exposed to commercial risk. A better way was needed: not only to advise, but to engineer a system capable of delivering excellence every time.
At Immercial, we set out to build a different model. Proprietary systems, software, templates, AI, and emerging technologies replicate expert decision-making and service standards across every project, without the traditional reliance on growing headcount.
Today, this strategy enables us to run multiple projects and serve multiple clients simultaneously. Clients engage with a clear, expert point of contact supported by a powerful, invisible engine of processes and technology that ensures control, clarity, and consistency throughout delivery.
We engineer commercial frameworks that elite clients trust to turn their visions into reality. Where others focus on the finish, we strengthen the start. Robust, repeatable, and transparent systems that set projects up for success and keep them on track.
Our goal is simple: set a new benchmark in MEP commercial cost control. Smarter, faster, and future-proofed by design.
Immercial exists for the industry’s most ambitious clients and projects, those who know that getting it right at the beginning makes all the difference in the end.
A unique approach
What you see is a single expert point of contact, providing precision advice, deep market knowledge, and personal service.
What you don’t see is the extensive technology, systems, and innovation working beneath: an iceberg of built infrastructure designed to deliver consistently for multiple clients, at scale, without the inefficiencies of large staffing models.
Our Foundational Strategy:
Over the past years, we’ve invested in designing, testing, and refining a proprietary ecosystem of software, portals, AI tools, time management algorithms and benchmarking frameworks, built specifically to replicate the owner-level service and thinking Immercial is known for.
Our clients experience seamless, precise, owner-level service, every time, across every project, because of the invisible strength of our systems working tirelessly behind the scenes.
Why It Matters:
Consistency: Every client receives the same elite standard, without dilution.
Efficiency: Projects are delivered faster, with greater accuracy and fewer risks.
Future-proofing: Our technology evolves to market shifts.
Welcome to a new era of commercial consultancy. One blueprint. A system beneath. Excellence above all.
Unlock the potential of your project with our expert services tailored to ensure precision, efficiency, and value at every stage. Our Structured Cost Planning and Benchmarking provides a clear financial roadmap, ensuring your budget is aligned with industry standards, while our Levelling and Recommendations service offers insightful guidance, optimizing project outcomes by addressing potential risks and enhancing performance.
In addition to our core consultancy services, we also offer dedicated Post-Contract MEP Quantity Surveying support. This ensures clients have continuity of commercial oversight beyond the pre-construction phase, retaining the same high standards of cost control and value assurance throughout the live project lifecycle. Whether engaged mid-phase or as a continuation of our early involvement, this service is designed to provide focused, ongoing commercial management through to practical completion and final account closeout.
Structured Cost Planning and Benchmarking
We specialise in early-stage MEP cost consultancy, giving developers and clients a clear, reliable financial roadmap from project inception. Using a structured stage-based approach inspired by the RIBA Plan of Work, our cost plans and benchmarking services deliver data-driven insights to support informed decisions aligned with market trends, project objectives, and budget expectations. Early engagement with our team enables strategic cost forecasting that minimises risk and maximises value throughout the project lifecycle.
Tender return, levelling and Recommendations
Beyond original cost planning stages, we are experts in tender return bid levelling and expert recommendations, ensuring fair, transparent contractor comparisons. Our structured approach leads directly into a seamless preconstruction phase, enabling design teams and contractors to progress with confidence. By setting the financial and technical groundwork in RIBA Stages 0-4, we de-risk projects and establish the foundation for efficient project delivery.
Post contract MEP Quantity Surveying
For clients seeking full commercial continuity, we provide expert post-contract MEP quantity surveying services. With over 25 years of hands-on experience in live project commercial management, we’re uniquely positioned to oversee and manage all project-side MEP cost and contractual tasks during the construction phase and beyond.
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