Professional Services
Project management focuses on the project’s deliverables ensuring the project achieves its intended outcome within time and budget.
Programme management takes a big-picture view and visualises how individual projects benefit and impact the entire programme.
The principal agent’s services are engaged either during the tender adjudication or once the physical construction starts. Their primary role is to manage the contractual day-to-day running of the agreement between the client and the main contractor. and coordinates the approval and oversight of the monthly payment claims by the main contractor.
Quantity surveying is a discipline that provides specialised financial, contractual and advisory services to clients in the building and construction, and related industries.
Cost management is the process through which a project budget is planned and managed. It helps the project manager estimate how much the project will cost and implements controls to reduce the risk of the project exceeding the budget.
Cost engineering uses scientific principles and techniques for estimating, cost control, business planning and science management, profitability analysis, project management, and planning and scheduling.
Heavy engineering refers to businesses that need a significant investment in machinery, eg, the steel, automotive, petroleum and mining industries. Heavy engineering uses large machinery to produce a large raw material.
A feasibility study is a considered analysis of a project’s relevant economic, technical, legal, and scheduling factors to determine whether the project can be completed.
Project sensitivity is a complete assessment to establish whether a project will be successful using data-driven forecasting. It also identifies risks, measures their impact and highlights high-risk tasks.
Project due diligence is a disaster risk management process designed to enable project managers to decide whether to proceed with a project and, if so, how to manage the social, economic and environmental risk factors.
Dispute resolution is the first attempt to resolve an argument among parties and is the fastest and cost effective process to achieving resolution.
Mediation is a consensual process of dispute resolution where a third-party mediator, appointed by both parties to the dispute, assists in resolving the situation.
Arbitration is a private, contractual form of dispute resolution and provided to determine disputes by a third-party arbitrator or panel selected by the parties to the conflict. Material facts, documentation and relevant principles of law contribute to the resolution.
The benefits of consensual dispute resolution processes are:
- Speedy resolution of disputes
- Confidentiality and avoidance of publicity
- Improved communication between parties, thereby preserving or enhancing relationships between the parties
- Parties create their process and craft their agreement
- The resolutions align to the parties underlying concerns that address legal and non-legal issues
- Provide remedies unavailable through formal channels
- Legal and other standards of fairness used in crafting agreements
- Increased satisfaction and compliance with settlements due to mutual participation
- They assist in clarifying and narrowing issues and fostering a climate of openness, co-operation and collaboration
Occupational Health & Safety
Safety committees are required to implement, promote, maintain and review measures to ensure the health and safety of their employees. To this end, companies must appoint safety committees.
According to Section 17 of the Occupational Health and Safety Act, employers who employ 20 or more employees on the premises must appoint representatives to monitor health and safety conditions. There needs to be at least one representative for every 100 employees in shops and offices and at least one representative for every 50 employees in other workplaces.
Safety files are essential to aid comprehensive management and keep records of all safety protocols, policies, and incidents used as evidence for audits and effective management of your workplace environment.
An OHSMS is a tool to assist organisations to successfully meet their legal and social responsibility regarding the occupational health and safety of all employees and stakeholders in their workplace.
Strategic Advisory Services
Energy optimisation is using less energy to do the same tasks. The benefits include reducing greenhouse gas emissions, reducing demand for energy imports, and reducing fossil fuel use, leading to lower costs by implementing renewable energy technologies.
Built environment business modelling is developing a management framework specifically for and supporting the business’s strategic goals. Companies may choose to have an in-house operation or outsourced services managed by an internal stakeholder or operations executed by an agent on their behalf (or variations on these themes).
Each of the above models has its unique dynamics, benefits and drawbacks. You must fully understand the application specific to the company’s needs before selecting and implementing one.
A built environment facilities management, property, infrastructure, asset conceptual development framework is a process and systems-based management approach that defines the path for built environment management. It is flexible and can respond to internal or external factors driving the organisational strategy, management processes, improving decision making, stakeholder management, and consistency in delivery and organisation coordination.
Built Environment Projects
A procurement strategy is a long-term plan to cost-effectively buy the necessary products and services from a list of preferred vendors who deliver quality goods on time and comply with the purchasing terms. A procurement strategy depends on the purchase timeline, available budget, the total cost of ownership, and possible risk, to name a few. A procurement strategy aims to cut costs and mitigate risks.
Building conditions assessment (BCA), also known as a facility conditions assessment (FCA), is a systematic inspection audit and review resulting in a report on the state of the building structure and systems. It provides detailed information and is more complex due to the compliance requirements for commercial, industrial or similar facilities.
An asset management plan (AMP) (sometimes referred to as a built environment plan) provides a guideline to realise value from physical assets by optimising cost, risk and performance across the asset life-cycle aligned to and in support of the business strategy and goals. Furthermore, the AMP outlines the implementation actions required to achieve the company’s built environment objectives (such as availability, productivity, and return on investment).