Project Management
We manage the delivery of refurbishments on some of the most prestigious properties in the UK and internationally.
What a client-side project manager does.
Construction projects fail in predictable ways: scope drifts, contracts are unclear, variations are unmanaged, payments outpace progress, defects appear at the end. A client-side project manager exists to prevent each of those failures.
We are appointed by, paid by and accountable only to the client. We are not the contractor, we do not earn a margin on the works, and we hold no commercial relationship with the trades on site. Our entire role is to make sure the project the client commissioned is the project the client receives.
How we run a project.
Pre-construction
Brief, budget, programme, design coordination, planning and party-wall consents, contractor procurement.
Contracts
JCT or bespoke contract drafted appropriately for the work, with clear payment terms, retention, and liquidated damages where useful.
On site
Weekly visits, progress reports, variation control, valuation review, instruction of consultants and specialists.
Completion
Practical Completion certification, snagging, defects period management, retention release.
Who we work with.
Private clients
Owner-occupiers refurbishing a recently acquired home, or restoring a period property.
Family offices
Discreet management of works to a principal’s residence or a portfolio asset.
International buyers
Where the client is not in London and needs day-to-day eyes on a project.
Buying agents
Continuity from acquisition into refurbishment, often on the same instruction.
On most projects, the client-side project manager’s fee is paid back several times over in avoided variations, controlled valuations, and a programme that holds.
Frequently asked.
Can you start mid-project?
Yes, and we often do. Where a project has lost direction, we can step in to take over delivery. The earlier the better, but rescue instructions are routine.
What about international clients?
A significant proportion of our project work is for clients based overseas. We report weekly in writing, with photographs and a clear view of progress, programme and spend.
Other services our clients ask for.
RICS Home Survey in London.
Independent RICS Level 2 (HomeBuyer) and Level 3 (Building) surveys, prepared personally by a RICS Surveyor.
Learn more →Schedule of Condition
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Independent, RICS-led review of a project before construction begins. Buildability, cost plan, programme, procurement and risk, interrogated at the point where changes…
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