General Contractor Services
Workshop for Board – Prepared as advice
Work-shops on Key Disputes:
- How to prepare for negotiations
- Available Options in terms of approach
- Negotiation – Dry Run practice on the specific case, with negotiation training
- Techniques for optimisation of outcomes
These are high level 2-3 hour sessions ( between 2 or 3 sessions depending on the size of the dispute). We prepare a work shop based on the specific event, to help to form a view on how to deal prior to consulting experts, legal teams, to get a co-ordinated view on the subject. These take place with a few key board members is serviced offices away from the main stress of the normal working environment.
This is not generic, it is intended to be based on specific issues, and requires a number of days of preparation to pass relevant concepts and ideas as advice.
Running Companies in the Era of AI in the area of Claims and Disputes
These are sessions of a workshop character where time to prepare and a certain level of information relating to key systems is needed for the purposes of preparation to say specifically relevant things about the existing system of the company. It is intended to show what is pending in terms of using the existing systems and software chosen by the Company some indications of the possibilities of the existing systems of that company. The best software is the one that you know how to use!
1. Preparation prior to Construction Work
- Setting up Cost Estimation for use on the building site
- Setting up Design coding for interface with the planning
- Setting up Planning and WBS
2. How to Manage the Young Talent
- The missing skills that are needed – education areas
- The conflict between process – and personal skill
- Monitoring rather than controlling, and data systems
- Out-comes and performance. Bench-marking and rewards.
- Increased output an the role of the super-manager.
3. How to Manage Senior Staff
- The power of the existing systems
- Leveraging the existing capabilities
- Creating a unified platform without a large ERP budget
- The data flow that matters and when it matters
- Power BI versus AI
- Managing the Future and not the Past
4. Good Organisation
- How to leverage the above for better decisions
- How to leverage the above to exploit change
Workshop for Senior Managers
These are sessions of a workshop character where time to prepare and a certain level of information relating to key systems is needed for the purposes of preparation to say specifically relevant things about the existing system of the company. It is intended to show what is pending in terms of using the existing systems and software chosen by the Company some indications of the possibilities of the existing systems of that company. The best software is the one that you know how to use!
Site Preparation Workshops:
1. Setting up the Site
- Setting up Estimating
- Setting up Design coding
- Setting up Planning and WBS
2. Detailed Planning techniques
- Running projects with the schedule
- Running projects with schedule progress with and without BIM
- Running projects with Power BI and Dash-boards
- Running projects with AI data
- Project documentation and organisation
- Templates and work-flows
3. Standard Procedures
- Responsibility and Authority
- Workflow adjustments and decisions
- The Past the Present and the Future
- Managing the Future exploiting the past
On Site Help - On a Daywork Basis to Help teams in Trouble
We offer the following services for site that are in difficulty:
- Correction of schedules
- Workshops for planners on live sites
- Recovery Programmes
- 4D linking of models to see progress and remaining scope to complete
- Resource driven scheduling, and cost and resource linked suggestions for recovery
- Acceleration schedules
- Claim settlement and general settlement linked to performance commitments
- Mediation services associated with this type of activity
- Supervision of junior planners in their day to day development
- Training in two levels of planning – Basic and Advanced directed towards AACE qualifications for planners.
We do not do
- Taking over the planning of sites
- Renting of planning services