Project Management

Your Home Builders know that successful management of a building project from concept to completion requires a professional to assume total responsibility for the completion of the project, on time and within budget.

Building Project Management involves the co-ordinated control of the design and construction processes as a single, unified effort from start to finish. This is what Your Home Builders does.

The services we offer and which we tailor to a project’s or client’s specific needs include:

Project Planning
It has been said that 70% of the success of a project is determined by what happens at this stage. This is where the brief is defined, where the objectives and scope of the project are set out, where the budget is determined and where we work through what resource planning and approval processes are necessary. We evaluate the risks and make sure that everybody involved in the process understands their role and what is expected of them.

Project Design and Delivery
It’s about managing the design process to deliver the objectives. It’s developing timelines, procuring and managing tenders, writing contracts and managing risk. It’s where we then manage all the construction inputs, the contract administration and see the project through to its successful completion.

Value Management
This is where we prioritise the degree of worth, concentrating on ensuring that the client receives the best value relative to their objectives. We go back to the brief and test the design brief validity. We review with the client what they want and prioritise what they really need. We look at different design solutions and different products. We start with high-level and then, as we work through each stage, the process becomes more detailed and focussed on cost-effectiveness, buildability and optimisation.

Risk Management
Every project, in one form or another, carries some risk. It can come from outside the project as well as from inside. It can be financial, people, markets, physical, political, regulatory or project relationships – anything that may impact on the delivery of the project objectives. We establish a structure and facilitate a process for the project team to consider and identify the risks, assess the probability and any likely impact. Then we develop mitigation measures and manage their implementation. We will then maintain the process and reassess the risks through the life cycle of the project.

Construction Management
Some projects benefit from the management of contractors directly rather than through a head contractor. This could be for reasons of cost savings, programme acceleration, early sub-contractor design input or preferred supplier arrangements. In this case we will procure and manage the sub-contractors directly on behalf of the client and ensure timely and quality delivery of their work.

Cost Estimating and Control
Our experience in building refurbishment, fit-outs and development gives us the knowledge to identify the hidden costs, visualise the design intent, understand the construction process and anticipate the unforeseen to accurately quantify the real project costs. We will then implement cost-control processes – cost checks, robust change management control, cost forecasting and reporting procedures – to deliver the project on budget.