Project Management

WKN's Project Management Team at WKN work across the full project lifecycle, providing strategic and tactical project management advice to our construction stage clients. WKN adopts a systems-based approach, utilising PMBOK (Project Management Body of Knowledge) protocols and the RIAI Work Stages. Our bespoke project controls stage-gate approach includes many touchpoints, including comprehensive analysis of actual construction cashflow against budget construction cashflow.

WKN provides project management services across the following areas:

Project Initiation and 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 Project Management deliverables includes:

Project Charter
Feasibility Studies
Planning Process Management, including SHD Applications
Value Engineering
Project Execution Plans
Risk Management and Risk Workshops
Procurement Strategy Development
Change Management Controls
Project Controls
Design Team Appointments
Collateral Warranties (Investors, Funders, Clients, Main Contractor, Specialist Subcontractors, and Design Team)
Building Contract Administration

Procurement Strategy

WKN provides expert advice to clients in developing the most suitable, and often bespoke, procurement strategy for each project. The procurement strategy identifies the most effective means of delivering a construction project, taking into account of best value for money over the full life cycle of the building or facility.

The objective of a well-defined procurement strategy is to achieve the optimum balance of risk, control and funding for a project. The selection of a procurement route is largely influenced by the client’s required balance between cost, quality and time risks.

Key considerations and questions include:

Developing a clear understanding of the agreement between the Funder and the Developer.
Establishing a clear understanding of the Client's project objectives.
Insisting on an open book approach with the Client, PQS and other directly involved stakeholders.
Ensuring the advantages and disadvantages of all procurement approaches under consideration are clearly communicated and understood by all decision-makers.
Documenting the evaluation process and the final agreement on the selected procurement route.

WKN have developed procurement strategies aligned to standard and amended Forms of Contract including: