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Building for the future
Background
Our approach: To understand the project drivers, sponsors and stakeholders, and to take ownership of delivering on time, within budget and to specification.
With no prior experience in construction, our ProAct trained project manager set about breaking the task into its key components, prioritising needs and assigning responsibilities. With less than 3 full working weeks before submission, the team had to firm up on its design & build ideas, translate them into drawings and plans, cost them and then present the various scenarios in a comprehensive bound and printed Technical Proposal supported by a viable business plan embodied within a bound and printed Commercial Proposal.
Challenging the team to squeeze a normal week’s work into a matter of days at each phase of the project was demanding in itself. Constructively challenging professionals on their own ideas and justifications added another dimension— proving especially beneficial in bringing our financial experience to contribute to the Commercial Business Plan.
A Bank Holiday weekend and its attendant absences added to the difficulties, and a fire evacuation at a crucial stage in preparing for publication didn’t help. Worse still, on reading the drafts some essential changes were required. Our project manager made the edits till 4am, was back with the company after a 2 hour commute by 9.15am, and spent that final evening before the deadline with the printers before delivering the finished Proposals to the firm’s office at 11.20pm… just as the MD was coming out.
Amazed by our commitment and leadership, the firm has since sought to take on our project manager full-time.
What better testament to our professionalism! |
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“Taking ownership for delivery”” |
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