Rider Levett Bucknall

Rider Levett Bucknall is an independent construction, property, and management consultancy. It traces its origins to 1785, more than 240 years of practice, and now operates in 36 countries with more than 4,600 staff, including about 30 offices across North America.

Its service areas are cost management and quantity surveying, scheduling, project management, advisory, and sustainability and carbon. Within those it handles cost estimating and management, project analysis and reporting, contract administration, procurement strategy, design management support, construction document management, and specialist consultancy coordination.

For owners, lenders, and investors it offers property condition assessments and technical due diligence, lender and investor services, claims analysis and management, forensic scheduling and damages quantum, expert witness and litigation support, construction defect and workmanship review, embodied carbon estimating, green building accreditation, strategic asset management, and P3 structuring.

RLB publishes recurring market research, including the quarterly RLB Crane Index for North America and a quarterly Construction Cost Report, and runs a construction cost calculator on its site. Its North American sector work spans healthcare, higher education, convention and exhibition centers, defense infrastructure, logistics, and manufacturing. The staff count differs between the home page and the about page, so treat headcount figures as approximate.