Project management is one of our core services. We consider property and construction projects having complex interfaces which require careful co-ordination to ensure projects are delivered on time and on budget.

Our Project Managers work closely with key stakeholders to identify project drivers and ensure designers, cost consultants and advisory teams are aligned to achieve practical, measurable deliverables for our clients.

At Utilicom Commercial & Project Management Services, we identify the right people to successfully deliver projects for our clients. Successful project management requires a combination of leadership, motivation and rigorous administration to ensure that the planned project outcome is achieved.

Our Project Manager’s promote transparency across all phases of a project, ensuring a collaborative approach is adopted in managing and controlling the delivery of the programme/project.

Our project management services include:

• Risk management
• Schedule benchmarking
• Change management
• Value engineering
• Procurement management
• Construction and handover management

We have extensive experience in defining and implementing project controls ensuring  regulatory, internal governance and contractual obligations are factored into solutions. Effective project controls provide client’s and project managers with a means by which overall project execution can be organised, monitored and delivered in relation to cost and schedule goals, as well as regulatory, quality and safety standards. We tailor our service to suit the needs of the client, and it can include:

• Regulatory reporting requirements
• Provision of work breakdown structures and execution plans for target setting, schedule creation, resource management, performance management, reporting and control
• Baseline plans
• Robust controls, reports and communications that maintain focus on Earned Value
• Identifying emerging performance issues allowing positive management action
• Integration of progress, change and risk and opportunity management to ensure consolidated governance and desired outcomes.

Cost and commercial management is at the heart of our service which is predicated with in depth expertise and experience.  We have developed a wide range of skills that help proactively manage project/portfolio costs.

We place great emphasis on the control of construction budgets and costs. In combination with an appreciation of design objectives and early stage decisions, this ensures the realisation of maximum value for a client’s investment. Our cost management/quantity surveying services include:

• Project investment appraisals
• Benchmarking and efficiency studies
• Cashflow management
• Change management
• Cost modelling
• Procurement advice and documentation
• Project cost management
• Risk and value management
• Strategic cost planning and estimating
• Value engineering

We operate and provide services across all the important stages of a project lifecycle: 

Pre Contractual:

• Contractual and financial risk analysis
• Audit of tendering documents/bidding files
• Contract management training of the project team (project managers, buyers, legal advisors, controllers)
• Introduction of new contract management approaches/methods
• Contractual assistance to the client’s teams for writing and checking contractual documents
• Defence strategy against overpayment

Post-contractual:

• Writing of contractual letters, claims and contract variations
• Assistance with costs and quantity control
• Quantity surveying
• Cost audit and proposals for corrective actions
• Claim files analysis and negotiation process support
• Permanent defence strategy against cost overruns
• Pre-contention settlement at the fair cost

Project close-out:

• Settlement of the final account
• Assistance in dispute resolution
• Assistance to lawyers in compiling supporting arbitration files
• Commercial settlement strategies and negotiations

• Establishing and implementing contract terms
• Ensuring all parties are familiar with their obligations and remain compliant at all times
• Ensuring information is communicated in a timely manner to ensure the smooth progression of the contract
• Proactively identifying and resolving problems between parties