Pre-Construction Services, Procurement & Project Planning

Our pre-construction management and project planning services place us at the forefront of the market, with the capability to plan and manage projects professionally, efficiently and safely. With strong capabilities across all building sectors, utilising the latest project planning techniques, our pre-construction and project planning services will manage your project related time risks from feasibility through to completion.

Selecting the correct procurement strategy for a project is key to project success. Based on the client’s principal objectives in relation to cost certainty, quality of design, programme, environmental, social value and wellbeing, we can undertake a review of these objectives and provide recommendations relating to the optimum procurement strategy to best achieve these goals.

Selecting the most appropriate contractor or supplier is equally important. We can evaluate the most suitable contractor/supplier for a project based upon scope, content, complexity, workload, expertise, procurement and the need for specialist knowledge and innovative thinking.

We can introduce Environmental, Social Value and Wellbeing metrics into the tender process to achieve the client’s wider value objectives. We undertake preparation of tender and contract documents, which provide full details of the project requirements and clearly identify responsibility for risks. Undertaking a detailed tender analysis ensures both compliance with the tender requirements and parity between the bids.
Our team has an in-depth knowledge of a wide range of construction techniques and delivery methodologies, and experience working for owners, developers and contractors.

Design Management

We offer design management services to help designers deliver more with less. Design teams can concentrate on their core service while our Design Managers focus on the programme of deliverables and contractual commitments. Our aim is to co-locate with the Lead Designer to be at the heart of the design team.

Through years of practical project experience, we have learnt and understood the complexities and intricacies of what is required on projects. Our approach is based on integrating management techniques within design teams, aligned to a clear brief, ensuring that agreed communication and client decision making processes are clearly understood in order to deliver successful projects.

We have long-term relationships with designers, architects, sustainability experts and other professionals in the design-built environment, as well as the global experience of working on some of the most iconic buildings in the world. We are well versed on the local knowledge of geographical attributes and the challenges that come with working in varying locations. Our design management consultancy combines our knowledge of the construction industry, with an understanding of how design can align with corporate and financial objectives, helping clients futureproof  their design and build.

Project / Fund Monitoring

With a project of any size, it is important that businesses get robust, useful advice which identifies and helps mitigate potential risks that might arise during the full project cycle. These risks must be continually appraised to ensure that a funder’s financial exposure does not exceed the value of securities held.

Our expert project monitoring support begins early in the process, in the form of initial technical due diligence prior to the agreement of funding and progress reporting through the construction phase. We also assess the quality of the assets that a client is developing, by advising on whole-life costing, which helps safeguard the long-term value of the investment.

We utilise a proactive, rather than reactive, approach which works as an early warning system, alerting clients to unexpected risks as early as possible. This foresight helps you make informed decisions, we act as your eyes and ears during the lifetime of your project, not just in initial planning.