Fences Required Around All Construction Work
Install safety or security fences around physical works areas. Do a safety risk assessment to determine the type of fence required. Allow enough budget.
Allow Costs for Safety in Design (SID) Compliance
You must allow time and budget to do safety in design. This will reduce the structure’s safety risk and your, your designer and your companies legal risk.
Time Forecasting System
A good timesheet and labour forecasting system should make the task of budget forecasting much more efficient and accurate, saving time and money.
Single Source of Data
It is best to have a single source of data in your storage system for all information on a project. It should be easy to use, accessible to all staff, and remove the need for storing documents or information all over the place.
Hold Points
Set hold points for your projects, in the scope documents, specifications and especially on the drawings. Enforce inspection of these hold points, to ensure the scope and quality requirements are met.
Verification Systems (Quality Assurance)
Ensure your company and your project have good, easy to use verification systems (Quality Assurance) in place to ensure that your project delivers to the quality expected by your company and by the client.
Suppliers List
Problem: I have been in plenty of companies and government departments or organisations where each project manager uses different supplier or contractors for the same tasks. Yet these project managers …
Check Your Authority
Avoid problems later by checking early in the project who is responsible for what aspect of the project and who has authority to approve what. Document this.
Clarify Time Based Language
Problem: Many instructions, requests or orders state the due date requirement as something like “due Thursday” or “by tomorrow”, or even “due October”. However, that is unclear. When the person …
Meeting Your Forecast Budget Spend Rate
Problem: Some projects have budget allocated to them, rather than being funded by a purchase order or contract or similar. This is particularly the case with internal projects or government …