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ServicesProject and construction management

Someone who owns
the programme.

Project planning and scheduling, construction management and site coordination, procurement and material planning, budget and cost coordination, workforce and subcontractor coordination, progress and quality monitoring and handover management, on your project, with your contractors.

Included

Our role

Project or construction manager

Acts for

The investor

Works with

Your designers and contractors

Reports

Programme, cost and quality, weekly

What it is

Management is the difference between a set of contractors and a project.

When you hold the contracts yourself, or intend to, what is missing is the person who owns the programme: who sequences the trades, buys the materials in time, tracks the budget, checks the quality against the drawings and deals with designers, authorities and utility providers so you do not have to. We provide that person and the team behind them, within the scope the law permits for a construction manager, without taking the building contract ourselves unless you ask us to.

What is covered

What you get

Six things you
hold in your hand

Not promises. Each of these is a person, a document or a report you receive, and can point to if it is missing.

  1. A master programme

    The whole project sequenced, owned and updated by one person, and shared with everyone who works to it.

  2. A procurement schedule

    What has to be ordered, by when, with what lead time, so materials arrive before the trade that needs them.

  3. A cost report against budget

    Committed, spent and forecast, updated as the project moves, with changes shown separately.

  4. Weekly coordination with minutes

    A meeting that decides things, and a record of what was decided and by whom.

  5. Quality inspections and records

    The work checked against the drawings at each stage, and the record kept.

  6. A handover plan and close-out

    Commissioning, documentation and defects managed to a plan rather than discovered at the end.

Scope

What the manager does

Everything below is inside the engagement. Anything not listed is named as an exclusion in the quote, so there is no third category.

  1. 01

    Planning and scheduling

    The master programme and the short-term look-aheads that keep it honest.

  2. 02

    Site coordination

    Access, logistics, sequencing and the daily interfaces between trades.

  3. 03

    Procurement and materials

    Specifying, ordering and tracking materials and equipment against the programme.

  4. 04

    Budget and cost control

    Tracking commitments and spend, valuing contractors' applications, controlling change.

  5. 05

    Workforce planning

    Matching the people on site to the work in the programme, week by week.

  6. 06

    Subcontractor coordination

    Contracts, sequence, interfaces and performance across every contractor on the job.

  7. 07

    Progress and quality

    Monitoring against programme and drawings, with inspections at hold points.

  8. 08

    External coordination

    Investors, designers, authorities and utility providers, within the scope the law permits.

Fit

When to choose it

  • You hold, or want to hold, the contracts yourself and need coordination.
  • You are an investor without a site team of your own.
  • Several contractors on one site need sequencing.
  • You want quality checked by someone who is not doing the work.

Used for

Typical projects

  • An investor-led apartment block
  • An owner-built villa with many trades
  • An office refurbishment with a tenant in place
  • An industrial hall with equipment vendors
  • A hotel refurbished in phases
  • Public works needing coordination under a main contractor

When something else fits better

Questions

Asked before
signing

The situations clients ask about before a management engagement. Anything else, ask directly.

Ask us

  1. Are you liable for the contractors' work?

    No. Each contractor answers for its own work under its contract with you. We manage, inspect and certify, and we tell you in writing when a contractor is not performing.

  2. Can you manage a project you are also building?

    Not in the same role, because the manager should not be checking their own work. Where you want us to build, we do it under a general contract and you appoint a separate manager, or you rely on the contract's own reporting.

  3. How is quality actually checked?

    Against the drawings and specification, at hold points agreed in advance, with a record of each inspection. Work that fails is not certified for payment until it is put right.

  4. How do you report?

    A weekly written report on programme, cost and quality, with photographs, and a coordination meeting with minutes. The format is agreed with you at appointment.

  5. Can the engagement be part time?

    For smaller projects, yes: a defined number of site days a week and the reporting that goes with them. The engagement says what is covered and what is not.

  6. What happens if a contractor fails?

    We tell you early, in writing, with the evidence. If it comes to replacing them, we run the replacement and re-sequence the programme around it.

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