What is Project Management?
The term Project Management in today’s world has a wide and loose meaning, interpreted in many ways. Generally speaking, and by definition, Project Management is the practice of initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing the work of a team to achieve specific goals and meet specific success criteria at the specified time, often constrained by funding or staffing. The primary challenge of project management is to achieve all of the project goals to meet pre-defined objectives within the given constraints. The primary constraints are generally scope, time, quality and budget. Once the client’s objectives are clearly established they should influence all decisions made by other people involved in the project – for example project managers, designers, contractors and sub-contractors.
“My personal objective for all projects is to ADD VALUE, and produce an outcome that may otherwise not have been achieved in my absence. It’s about building solutions”.
My services may be appointed on an hourly rate or fixed price to a defined scope. The level of service remains flexible, subject to the project’s demands and nature, and my client’s requirements.
- Design / Development Management
- Contract Management & Administration
- Time and Cost Planning
- Budget Management
- Time, Quality, Cost and Risk Management
- Resource Procurement & Management
- Co-ordination of Onsite Construction Activity
- Financial & Job Progress Reporting
- Project Handover Co-ordination
Project Management My Way…….
Every project is unique. It may be the systematic replacement of balcony tiles, a re-roof or road resurfacing programme, or it may be the design and construction of a major regional hospital. The common consistency within each project will be that each will have their complexities, and all require sound management and administration to achieve a successful outcome.
I allow my clients to dictate the level of Project Management services they require and will happily assist with the scope definition to align with the client’s expectations. I can provide all, or any part of, the services ticked below in line with the each client’s requirements. For me, it’s about bringing beneficial change and added value, to solve a problem before, or as it appears, and to co-ordinate a team that will meet the client’s objectives.
Design Management
Design Management Services are offered either as part of the Project Management Service or as a singular responsibility within the construction management structures. Services may include:
- Project briefing and design consultant appointments
- Co-ordinating progress of the design team
- Assessment of buildability issues & construction methodology
- Co-ordination of Development & Building Approval processes
- Cost containment monitoring & budget control
Contract Management & Administration
Contract Management Services are also offered as part of the Project Management Service or as a singular responsibility dependent on the complexity of the project. Services may include:
- Assess & determine commercial risk exposure
- Review of head contracts and subcontracts
- Negotiate & resolve potential disputes
- Administration of the contract agreements
- Preparation of all claims under a contract
- Evaluation of offers, qualifications & conditions
- Determine the accuracy of the scopes of work
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Estimating Services, Cost Planning & Management
This is a specialised service not generally part of the Project Management Process (as opposed to cost control). I have always been responsible for the procurement of projects throughout my career and am competent in measuring and quantifying from drawings and specifications for all design disciplines. My services include:
- Evaluation of tender documentation
- Measure & quantify from tender drawings
- Preparation of full “Builders” Bills of Quantities
- Create submissions, including construction programmes, cash flow charts, statements of methodology etc
- Comply with Codes of Tendering & the Trade Practices Act.
- Conversion of BOQ to job costing budgets
