How Currie & Brown Uses CostX to Convert Complexity into Clarity for every Cost Decision 

Company Name: Currie & Brown – Global Management Center 

Location: Global 

Industry sector/s: Construction & Infrastructure 

Products used: RIB CostX 

CostX allowed Global Measurement Centre to scale delivery while maintaining the quality and the governance expected across Currie & Brown globally. 

Vivek Verma, Associate Director – Head of Global Management Center, Currie & Brown, India 

The Customer 

Currie & Brown is a world-leading project management, cost management and advisory services firm with a presence across Europe, the Americas, Asia Pacific, the Middle East, and India. The firm’s Global Measurement Centre (GMC) in India is the focus of this case study due to their recent rapid growth – their focus on certainty, precision, transparency, and client confidence reflects Currie & Brown’s values and standards in supporting clients with risk management and cost control to keep complex programs on track.  

The Mission 

Currie & Brown has a long history of delivering complex projects with fast, accurate, defensible cost plans across evolving designs. The Global Measurement Centre (GMC) in India experienced rapid growth in project team size, volume, and complexity, which presented an opportunity to enhance their digital measurement workflows to support integrated global delivery and collaboration. Leveraging digital measurement and connected workflows using RIB CostX reflected Currie & Brown’s mission to convert complexity into clarity and confidence for cost decisions. The objectives were clear: maintain consistent cost output, manage evolving design efficiently, and scale delivery at GMC without compromising quality or governance. 

The Solution  

As projects across diverse sectors and regions grew and GMC’s team size increased, it compounded project complexity, indicating that they would need stronger digital collaboration capabilities. They built on their existing partnership with RIB CostX to further strengthen digitally enabled cost management. By enabling consistent workflows, visibility of quantities and cost data improved, helping teams to respond efficiently as designs evolve. Using RIB CostX to bring measurement and cost planning into a more connected digital environment, they can now maintain quality and governance across global projects. This is where digital measurement workflow became a strategic enabler for Currie & Brown. 

The Result  

RIB CostX has enabled the firm with a more efficient and scalable way of working. Using shared models and standardized templates, GMC teams found they collaborated more effectively, while maintaining alignment with the global delivery standards. By bringing together measurement and cost planning in a single digital environment, teams now have clearer quantity visibility. They can update quantities efficiently, which gives them more time to spend on cost analysis than reworking information. The process has allowed them to scale delivery while maintaining the quality and governance, ensuring alignment with global Currie & Brown standards. 

If we did not have CostX, we would not have the capability of reaching our counterparts so efficiently. 

Vivek Verma, Associate Director – Head of Global Management Center, India 

Seizing an Opportunity to Strengthen Digital Cost Management 

Currie & Brown’s Global Measurement Centre in India supports international projects by delivering measurement and cost management services. The firm has recently experienced rapid growth in both team size and project volume – the growing scale and speed of projects was the tipping point for workflow change. The firm realized the need for more robust digital solutions that could keep pace with rapid design changes and increased collaboration. 

The increase in project complexity created an opportunity for Global Measurement Centre (GMC) to advance digital cost management. They wanted to develop digitally enabled measurement and cost planning. With project team collaboration expanding across the globe, it highlighted the need to align workflows across multiple regions. Design information was also increasing in volume, creating an opportunity for them to improve visibility of quantities and cost data. In the final analysis, GMC India needed to scale delivery alongside efficient process alignment with global standards. 

Our team spends less time reworking information and more time analyzing the cost. 

Vivek Verma, Associate Director – Head of Global Management Center 

How CostX Transformed Workflow and Improved Collaboration 

It wasn’t so much about fixing something that wasn’t working. Verma explains that RIB CostX was already part of global Currie & Brown’s construction tech toolkit. But as the GMC India teams expanded and started supporting more regions, scale and speed became key focal points. They needed help to support that growth while staying aligned with Currie & Brown’s global practices. This prompted the expanded use of CostX.  

Here’s how the transformation took shape:  

• CostX was used to support efficient 2D and BIM-based measurement, aligned with their established methodologies 
• Standardized templates were applied to reinforce consistency across diverse projects and growing teams 
• Collaborative work was enabled through shared digital models and clear quantity visualization 
• CostX supported scalable workflows as delivery volumes and project complexity increased 

The way RIB CostX reshaped their approach to takeoff and cost planning, especially on complex or fast‑moving projects was the way it has brought measurement and cost planning together. Given that design evolves quite quickly on complex projects, it makes a big difference to GMC that they can update quantities efficiently within one digital environment. 

Reviewers can clearly see how quantities are developed and track the revisions easily [because] the digital workflow made the review more transparent and structured. 

Vivek Verma, Associate Director GMC 

Enabling Faster, More Accurate Project Delivery at Scale 

The way Currie & Brown have expanded their usage of RIB CostX, it’s reshaped their approach to cost planning, simultaneously improving collaboration and enhancing their internal review processes. Maintaining quality and governance together with scalable delivery growth was a big win for GMC India. 

The improvements in collaboration and speed were notable: Verma observed improved turnaround times and greater clarity in client communications. He attributed that to the fact that everyone on their team was working from the same set of information, which facilitated collaboration at speed. It became easier to respond during design development and so, turnaround times improved and they could communicate changes to their clients much more clearly. 

As BOQ production accelerated, project teams were in a position to respond faster to evolving deliverables and protect project requirements. They’ve noticed greater consistency across measurement outputs. 

They found that CostX streamlined their internal review and enhanced quality control processes with structured digital workflows that improved transparency. Reviewers can now easily track revisions and focus stakeholder discussions on decisions with greater confidence rather than having to check data. So, it helps them maintain consistent quality while keeping the process efficient across teams and locations. 

Verma describes the impact of shifting to digital workflows on their internal review processes and overall quality control as CostX’s main USP for Currie & Brown. 

His advice to other consultancies looking to modernize their cost planning practices is to focus on people and processes first. He finds that technology works best when it supports existing expertise and then you allow digital tools like RIB CostX to make collaboration easier and improve clarity in decision-making. When teams feel confident to adopt them naturally, that’s when the real benefits start to show. 

It makes a big difference that we can update quantities efficiently within one digital environment – it’s been a real time saver. 

Vivek Verma, Associate Director – Head of GMC India, Currie & Brown