Insights

Practical guides on cost, contracts, servicing intervals and due diligence for buildings in Mauritius, written by the engineers who price and deliver the work.

Five guides sit here, each written from work carried out in Mauritius rather than adapted from overseas material: what facilities management and annual maintenance contracts cost and how they are priced, when a planned programme works out cheaper than reactive repair, what an office fit-out costs per square metre and where that money goes, how often air-conditioning should be serviced in a humid coastal climate, and how contractor registration with the Construction Industry Authority works when you are deciding who to award work to. Every figure quoted is indicative and shown with the reasoning behind it, and each guide links through to the service pages where the work itself is described.

Cost and contracts

How much does facilities management cost in Mauritius?

Indicative monthly ranges by building type, the five variables that actually set the figure, what belongs inside the fee and what should be quoted separately, and how to get quotes you can compare line by line.

AMC versus reactive maintenance: which costs less in Mauritius?

Planned contract or call-when-it-breaks: emergency premiums, collateral damage, downtime and shortened asset life compared, what a well-written contract contains, and the one case where reactive-only genuinely makes sense.

Projects and fit-out

Office fit-out costs in Mauritius: a client guide

Indicative rates per square metre by specification tier, where the budget goes trade by trade, realistic programmes, and the four things that quietly add cost in occupied buildings such as the Ebene towers.

Building services

How often should air conditioning be serviced in Mauritius?

Why tropical run hours, humidity, dust and coastal salt make annual servicing insufficient, the intervals we use by environment, what a proper service visit contains, and the regassing trap to avoid.

Compliance and hiring

CIA contractor registration in Mauritius (formerly CIDB)

What changed when the CIDB became the Construction Industry Authority in 2024, how to read a registration number and its works category, and the five-minute due-diligence check to run before you sign.