- Guide and communicate with all parties
- Establish and develop the project brief
- Prepare Project Execution Plan
- Design Team Procurement and Management
- Project Co-ordination
- Identify and manage risks to project
- Instruct team
- Progress Reporting
- Management of estates constraints
- Contract Administrator or Employer’s Agent
- Manage project completion and handover
- Manage resolution of defects to end of contractual making good period.
Services
Project Management:
Quantity Surveying
- Cost modelling & feasibility estimates for project viability assessments.
- Procurement advice and recommendations
- Preparation & issue of tender documentation to suitable contractors
- Analysing and reporting on tender returns.
- Recommendations to the Employer based on information received
- Value management and value engineering
- Preparation of contract documentation
- Regular Site attendance to monitor progress and expenditure
- Interim valuations throughout the construction period.
- Provision of cost reports during the construction period.
- Reviewing and tracking project changes and variations.
- Agreement of variations, final account and issuing Statement of Final Account
Contract Administration
Contract Administrator or Employer’s Agent:
- Issue instructions on behalf of client
- Report regularly to client and funders on progress, cost, contract compliance and quality matters
- Monitor the performance of the contractor and professional team
- Finalise handover documentation and the Final Account
- Manage defects arising during the rectification period; certify end of making good defects
Design
- Establish. and develop brief with client
- Feasibility and initial assessment design
- Planning consultation, consideration and submission
- Construction stage drawings from Tender to completion
- Design coordination
Acquisition Support
Site Acquisition Support:
- Initial Feasibility Site Visits
- Feasibility Reports
- Initial cost plans and feasibility estimates
- Negotiation with landlord and third-parties
- Liaison with lawyers and contract advice
- Appointment and management of other specialists
- Agreement of specifications and key dates
Monitoring
- Stage 1 – Initial audit reporting
- Stage 2 – Progress reporting
- Stage 3 – Practical completion
The above includes the assessment, review & monitoring of:
- Land and property acquisition matters & statutory compliance
- The developer’s project team and proposed project management systems competency.
- Development, finance, consultancy and construction agreements
- Construction costs, programmes, design and construction quality
- Review of developer’s design
- Programme review and monitoring
- Regular developer meetings and site inspections
- Monitoring of developer change requests
- Utilities monitoring
- Practical Completion assessment and reporting