Experienced. Analytical. Independent.
Bringing decades of combined experience in construction cost planning, estimating, and preconstruction advisory.
Our background
Our Capabilities
Our Strengths
Our team brings decades of combined experience in construction cost planning, estimating, and preconstruction advisory. We are a group of detail-driven professionals who understand that strong financial strategy is foundational to successful project delivery.
Our expertise spans a broad range of sectors and project scales, allowing us to provide accurate, defensible, and market-informed cost intelligence. From early conceptual budgeting to detailed tender review, we combine technical rigor with practical construction knowledge to ensure our clients are equipped with reliable data at every milestone.
At Veritas Cost Consultants, our capabilities are rooted in independent analysis and strategic financial insight. We provide rigorous parallel estimating to validate project budgets and bring transparency to the preconstruction process. Through detailed cost modeling and lifecycle cost analysis, we help clients understand not only what a project will cost today, but how financial decisions will impact long-term performance and value.
Our benchmarking and market comparison services ground each estimate in current industry data, ensuring budgets reflect real-time conditions and regional dynamics. By combining this market intelligence with comprehensive risk assessment and contingency planning, we help project teams proactively identify exposures, quantify uncertainty, and build resilient financial strategies.
We also support target value design by aligning cost objectives with design intent early in the process, helping teams optimize scope without compromising quality. During procurement and tender, we provide advisory services that strengthen bid evaluation, support negotiations, and ensure cost alignment through contract award.
We strive to enable informed decision-making, reduced uncertainty, and stronger financial outcomes.
Objectivity – As independent consultants, we provide unbiased insight that strengthens decision-making and supports transparent project governance.
Analytical Depth – We don’t just deliver numbers; we interpret them. Our team translates complex data into clear, actionable recommendations.
Collaboration – We integrate seamlessly with owners, architects, engineers, and contractors to ensure cost strategy supports design intent and project goals.
Market Awareness – With deep knowledge of current construction trends and pricing dynamics, we help clients anticipate risk and plan with confidence.
Integrity – True to our name, we operate with honesty, clarity, and accountability in every engagement.
Who we are
Marisol Serrao, Principal
Marisol is a Principal based in Boston. She has a Bachelor of Business Administration from Salem State University. Having worked in the construction industry since 1996, Marisol brings a vast amount of administrative and marketing knowledge to the firm.
Marisol has been responsible for a whole administration team including accounting, marketing, and IT. She has overseen all proposals, qualifications, presentations, a company website, and branding from draft to the final submission. Her firsthand experience has led to streamlined processes, which have improved productivity, automated workflows, better time management, and improved communication. Marisol’s education and background are essential to Veritas’ long-term planning strategies.
Despite the many hats she wears at work, she enjoys the simple things in life like her Peloton, her extended family, travelling to foreign lands, cooking, spending time with her partner, and their 3 teenagers.
Melissa Chabot, Principal
Melissa is a Principal and heads up our LA office. She has a Bachelor of Applied Science in Mechanical Engineering from Queens University. She enjoys sharing her knowledge by speaking to conference groups on the topic of construction economics and forecasting and is recognized for this nationally. Melissa has extensive knowledge of all building systems from the ground up, with the mechanical and electrical trades being her main passion and area of expertise. Melissa has been involved in many large, complex and sustainable projects.
Melissa’s approach to managing a project is to empower the team to come up with creative cost-effective solutions that benefit the users, owners, and the design integrity of the project. Sustainability, collaboration, and accomplishing difficult objectives are her passions.
Outside of work, she is a weekend warrior and interested in all things cycling (mountain, gravel, road), spending time with her family, live music, hiking, stand-up paddleboarding, getting together with her girlfriends, and growing exotic fruits.
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From concept to completion, we’re ready to support your project needs. We promise a client-centric approach that empowers ideas, eases concerns, and delivers quality cost saving solutions you will appreciate time and again.