Project Control plays a key role in the effective management of construction projects. Risks are inevitable in construction developments and thus an effective project control system is necessary to continually monitor risks and mitigate, control, and accept risks where appropriate. Our experts will fill such a gap when we were appointed to perform project control services.
Risk Management
Our experts will assist the client, consultant, and contractor to manage risks that may arise from design to construction including, but not limited to, procurement of materials, resource availability, site conditions, authority approvals, and execution of work up to completion and handover, etc. Our team will take a helicopter view of the project inputs and outputs to identify risks in advance and maintain a risk register recording all risk events for appropriate actions. We will assist in conducting risk reduction meetings, develop strategies, and action plans to administrate risks.
Project Planning and reporting
SVEDS’ planning team is highly expert in preparing from micro-level to macro-level planning for small, major, and complex projects taking into consideration the scope, project duration, budget, method of workings, circumstances in which the project is to be executed, coordination required with project stakeholders, risks and contractual deliverables. Our teams can make development plans from tendering stage to the execution of the Works up to completion and handover. We will use innovative technologies with our historical productivity data to determine the planned productivity of the Works and to make sure that the actual performance of the project is without any variances.
Delay Claim Analysis
The growth in the CPM construction schedule over the past fifty years has brought several different methodologies for analyzing construction delays.
We are specialized in forensic delay analysis, in which our team’s construction management knowledge will be applied to establish the critical path delay, including the identification of cause and effect. Our team is an expert in applying retrospective delay analysis (investigation) methods to investigate the actual impact of the delay events by identifying the actual or as-built critical path.
By identifying and analyzing the project’s scope, time, cost, quality, and performance, SVEDS develops an accurate assessment of how the construction process shall be advanced throughout development for timely completion, and within the budget.
Our experts can deal with various methods of delay analysis, including:
Impacted – As Planned
This method involves a delay event to be inserted in the baseline program to identify the impacts of such events. By inserting the delay events, this method modifies the baseline program with the inclusion of new activities and logic to represent delays. The difference between the project completion date in the impacted as planned schedule and the original as the planned schedule is the delay days. It is a simple method and does not require as-built data and thus be a hypothetical.
Collapsed As-built
This approach is opposed to the impacted as-planned method. This method calculates the delay days from the as-built schedule by removing all delay events from the as-built schedule to determine when the project should have been completed “but for” delay events. This method does not require the as-planned schedule and contemporaneous schedule updates.
As planned Vs As built
This method compares the start and finish date of the as-planned schedule with the start and finish date of the as-built schedule, or the progress updated schedule to determine the delay days. This is a simplistic approach suitable for a simple project with a consistent critical path. The key expectation of this approach is that the critical path of the actual completion should not deviate from the critical path considered in the as-planned schedule. Hence, the accuracy of this model is dependent upon the consistency of the critical path.
Time Impact Analysis
This is a comprehensive model in which each delay event is assessed individually in chronological order to assess the impact of each delay event. This approach is based on an as-planned schedule in which the impact of each delay event is assessed by comparing the impact of the delay immediately before and after the delay event. The difference between the project completion date before and after the delay event determines the extent of the delay. This technique is widely used to determine a performance drop in the project.
Window Analysis
It is a retrospective approach in which the total project duration will be divided into smaller periods, called Windows. This method attempts to calculate as-built critical path delays for each of the windows. This method compares the baseline or as-planned forecasted critical path to the as-built schedule reflecting the as-built conditions for each selected window.
The typical life cycle of a Delay claim:
- Baseline programme is established
- Project commences
- Deviation from the baseline programme is identified or projected
- Delay occurrence/discovery
- Delay analysis
- Preparation and submission of claim submission
- Claim presentation (or demonstration)
- Response to claim
- Negotiation (and award of an appropriate extension of time)
- Revised baseline programme is established and agreed
- Dispute resolution procedures (if the award is not agreed)
- Delay claim resolution.
