Why experience alone cannot fix construction cost overruns
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Principal & author · Thimphu, Bhutan
Lungten Tshering
Lungten Tshering is the Principal of Omeya Insights, a Bhutanese advisory practice working across construction cost, valuation, climate finance and risk. He writes on quantity surveying, estimation and professional practice in Bhutan’s built environment.
Experience informing the work.
Lungten’s professional background spans Bhutan’s financial institutions, institutional advisory and consultancy in London. That personal experience informs the practice he is building at Omeya.
His qualifications include a BE in Civil Engineering from the Royal University of Bhutan and an MSc in Quantity Surveying from Kingston University London. He is a Chevening alumnus. The MSc programme’s RICS and CIOB accreditation describes the academic programme; it does not establish an individual chartered designation.
Explore his professional backgroundResearch on cost management in Bhutan.
His 2025 MSc dissertation, Towards Global Standards: Assessing the Feasibility and Readiness of RICS Standard Implementation in Bhutan’s Construction Sector, examined professional practices, standards awareness and possible routes to adoption.
The public research series translates selected themes into short notes for practitioners and clients. It identifies the study’s scope and limitations and distinguishes research findings from the author’s practical interpretation. Read the research background.
A schedule of rates is the beginning of an estimate
Explaining scope, project conditions and allowances alongside reference rates.
International cost standards in Bhutan: start with a pilot
A research-informed proposal for training, local adaptation and evaluated pilot projects.
Areas of professional focus.
Quantity surveying and construction cost planning, property and hotel valuation advice, and renovation estimates and BOQs. The purpose, evidence, deliverables and required professional responsibility are agreed for each assignment.
All insights and commentary