Project Management
The Project Management Team at WKN works across the full project lifecycle, in providing strategic and tactical project management advice to our construction stage clients. WKN adopts a systems-based approach, utilising the PMBOK (Project Management Body of Knowledge) protocols and the RIAI Work Stages. Our bespoke project controls stage-gate approach includes many touchpoints, inclusive of a comprehensive review of actual construction cashflow against budget construction cashflow.
- Project Initiation/Project Charter
- Project Scope and Brief Management
- Procurement Strategies
- Professional Team Selection and Appointments
- Project Execution Plans
- Management of Design Teams (across all project phases)
- Project Change Management
- Project Risk Management
- Project Controls
- Report Writing
- Contract Advisory
- Project Dashboards
Our Project Management service is delivered consistently with the values that we hold as a business, namely:
- Integrity
- Collaboration
- Trust
- Belief
- A ‘Whole Project Team’ Approach
Our standard suite of deliverables for Project Management include:
- Project Charter
- Feasibility Studies
- The Planning Process, including SHD Applications
- Value Engineering
- Project Execution Plans
- Risk Management/Risk Workshops
- Developing Procurement Strategies
- Change Management Controls
- Project Controls
- DT Appointments
- Collateral Warranties (Investor, Funder, Client, Main Contractor, Specialist Subcontractors, DT)
- Building Contract Administration
Procurement Strategy
WKN provide expert advice to our clients, in the development of the most suitable, and quite often bespoke in nature, procurement strategy for a project.
The procurement strategy identifies the best way of achieving the completion of a construction project – often taking into account the best value for money over the entire life cycle of the building or facility.
The aim of a good procurement strategy is to Achieve the optimum balance of risk, control and funding for a project.
The choice of a particular procurement strategy largely depends on a client’s required balance of cost, quality and time risks.
Some key considerations and questions to pose include:
- develop a clear understanding of the Agreement between the Funder and the Developer;
- develop a clear understanding of the Clients’ project objectives;
- insist on an open book approach, by Client/PQS and other directly involved stakeholders;
- ensure that the pros/cons of all procurement approaches under consideration are conveyed and fully understood by all decision-makers;
- document the process, and final agreement of the selected procurement route.
WKN have developed procurement strategies aligned to standard and amended Forms of Contract including:
- Design and Build
- Management Contracting
- Construction Management
- Traditional Design
