Construction Management
We provide our clients with science-based construction services.
We offer all the services our client needs in both conventional and demanding building construction projects from planning to execution. We provide for example feasibility studies, briefing, project strategy and studies on different delivery systems, costing and cost control service, procurement and project management and supervision. In addition, we provide facilitation of deployment, project auditing and impact evaluation.
We also help our construction clients to succeed with special services such as research and development and setting and funding environmental and life cycle goals.
Our services are tailored according to the client’s and the project’s needs. We are an independent operator, which means we are not engaged to a certain delivery form, funding model or operator.
Our competitive advantage is based on the Milestone solution we have developed. The Milestone solution helps our clients to reach the quality, cost, and schedule goals in their construction project.
Feasibility Studies and Briefing
We offer high quality services for project feasibility studies and briefing. In effect, we are specialized in providing rapid and user-oriented project briefing services. The users are involved in the preparation, investment options are compared based on up-to-date cost data, and decisions are being made according to planned schedule based on high quality decision-making information.
According to the client’s needs we bring to use the most recent tools needed in project preparation, focfr example a real estate simulation model that helps comparing the alternatives transparently and rapidly. Moreover, we provide functional space modeling, which optimizes the use of the space and the value created for the client.
Project Strategy and Delivery System
We provide project Strategy and project delivery system development services. We co-create the project strategy together with the client and key stakeholders. The project strategy outlines the shared targets and metrics for the project, which steer the decision-making, procurement, collaboration, and project strategy execution. Moreover, according to project strategy and targets, we evaluate the potential project delivery systems and develop the most suitable project model together with client.
Costing
We perform project cost calculations and offer cost steering services in all phases of the project. We apply both conventional and latest cost calculation methods, which enable continuous high quality decision-making information for project leaders and stakeholders. In addition, we steer the project planning and construction according to the client’s quality and cost goals.
Procurement
We prepare and execute public procurements together with the client. We develop the procurement plan and strategy. We prepare the procurement documents that are aligned with the procurement law. We organize high quality market dialogues, coordinate different steps in the procurement process, and we also facilitate the negotiations. We help in evaluation of the offers, preparing the procurement decision documents and in communicating throughout the process. Our expertise lies in quality-based and negotiated procurement procedures.
Project Management and Supervision
We act as the project manager of the construction project, and we carry out project management and coordination tasks throughout the project. We supervise the construction and technical work. We work in such a manner that projects succeed and that people feel comfortable to work in the project.
Project Auditing
We carry out construction project auditing. Typically, in 3 to 6 months intervals we carry out measurements that provide the client current understanding of whether the project is on schedule and whether the cost and quality goals are being reached. The measurement data provides the client an opportunity to tackle possible deviations in time.
Deployment
We help to ensure a smooth deployment and an excellent user experience. We prepare the deployment tasks and the schedule, and in all the deployment project phases we take care of the execution according to the set goals. Our service is based on the deployment process we have developed, which ensures a thorough preparation and organization of the deployment tasks, high quality communication and user training, and a timely execution of the tasks.
Impact Evaluation
We carry out the construction project’s impact evaluation by using a post-evaluation method we have developed together with our clients. In the evaluation, we describe and analyze systematically the project’s internal and external effects, for example the development of a person’s know-how and the value created by the project. In addition, we document the project’s learnings and the proven ways of working for future projects’ needs.
Special Services
We help our clients to succeed with special services that are tailored and targeted according to the project’s special features and needs. Our special services can also be executed as separate entities.
Our special services include risk management, environmental goals, carbon emissions calculation, R&D services, funding specialist, alliance specialist, life cycle specialist, energy saving specialist, special reports and costing, resilience goals, scenario planning, data model coordination, moisture management coordination, work safety coordination and project coaching.
What’s our competitive advantage?
Our competitive advantage is based on the Milestone model that helps clients to reach the project’s quality, cost, and schedule goals.
In the new Milestone model, the entire construction project is divided into milestones. The milestones are divided into takts in the proposal and general planning phases. Planning packages are being used to proceed in the implementation planning phase and the contractors can also utilize takt production in the construction phase if desired.
Dividing the planning phases in shorter periods for which clear goals have been set, also enables the decisions to be made in shorter periods.
Reaching of the goals is being followed in two to three-week intervals in the planning phase, and in a few month intervals in the construction phase. This way, the client has an up-to-date understanding of the project moving forward in planned schedule and that it stays within the set cost and quality targets. When the goals are actively being followed, the client can react if any deviations are discovered in the process.
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Contact us for more information on our services
Petro Pöyhönen
Director, Construction Services
tel. +35840 660 4175