SMED understands the importance of doing proactive planning through continuous critical path monitoring and management throughout the project delivery phase. A well-developed comprehensive contract programme can be used as a management and reporting tool that will enable the project team to always stay on track in the project.
When a project is being tendered, the Contractor needs to produce a programme as part of its tender submission indicating the proposed timeline of project, sequence, and duration of works. The complexity of programme can vary from simple grant chart programs with critical path analysis to comprehensive programme with resource and cost loading. Without a reliable programme at the outset, subsequent planning activities become far less reliable and effective.
SMED provides expert support on preparing tender programmes based on the tender drawings and specification available and what is the requirement as stated in the tender documents.
Trust us with this. We have hands on experience both in programming and running a site and completing project on time. We really mean business here. We know the details well- what is takes to pour a 2000sqm slab or what it takes to erect 100-ton steel structure. When we programme it, we just don’t pull durations out of thin air. We programme it accounting for the right construction methodology to do the job.
Tower crane hook time analysis gives an idea to the Contractor on the utilization figure of a tower crane or how many tower cranes are required in a project over a given programme period, to then allow a price to be obtained from subcontractor/specialist in the market. SMED team has excellent skills and experience to carry out this analysis and foresee the requirement and productivity of tower crane in a project.
Once the project is being awarded and Contract is signed, the Contractor needs to submit the construction programme as a Contract requirement which is considered as ‘Contract Programme’. This will be the baseline programme for progress updates and future EOT claims if any. Therefore, it is important to make this programme technically and contractually sound.
SMED team has hands on experience in developing Comprehensive Construction programmes and can provide advise on how to make the programme Contractually correct in terms of capturing key contractual deliverables as work breakdown structures
We also provide support in terms of doing site visits, monitor the progress and reflect it into the programme and analyze the status of the project and where it is heading to. We can also provide you independent executive status reports and health checks of the programme.
Do you know contractor’s status report to the client is the key if the contract gets into dispute?
How good is your contract reports? Do you know the key aspects to report? We can do it for you
Let it be planning, dispute or training, we got it covered.
SMED provides expert opinion on construction programming & monitoring, project controls, extension of time claims and dispute resolution.