Description

Welcome to Property Done Properly, an educational and entertainment podcast in Real Estate, Construction and Facilities Management covering the whole life cycle of a project from inception to realisation. Ian Rogers is your host and is here to share his wealth of experience in the industry to guide you through your own property development endeavours. 

In this inaugural episode Ian will introduce himself, his skills and experience to you, and explain how he hopes to help you in your projects moving forward. He also will introduce the concept of the five pillars of project success ; process, team, commercial, community, design, and underpinned with mind and well being, and the general content within those pillars. 

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Ian is a Chartered Quantity Surveyor and Project Manager with 40 years experience working on construction projects, facilities management contracts and Private Finance Initiative and Public Partnership Projects. Born into a construction environment his father owned a small local building company with about 50 to 60 employees.
• Ian then went to university and achieved a degree in quantity surveying and then worked for construction firms, gaining experience on a number of projects including a major extension to a college, a leisure centre and a substantial college build from the ground up. He then moved into a London project and progressed into more complicated builds.
• He then moved to a Facilities Management role which he enjoyed for the longer term relationships with clients it offered. From this he moved on to maintenance of facilities during which he gained experience in setting up training.
• Ian worked on early Private Finance Initiatives when the system was in its infancy and learned negotiation and teamwork skills being among the pioneers of this system and informing its future.  
• In 2008 Ian started his consultancy business initially looking at how public sector contracts work and advising on PFI/PPP projects. He now works internationally in the Caribbean and the USA.
• This show will look at anything in terms of the built environment ; design process, feasibility studies, financial modelling, funding, the whole life conceptualisation of a project, building information modelling, (a new technology currently being introduced to smaller projects), construction process, facilities management and will include interviews and insights into Ians passions and interests.

BEST MOMENTS

‘So what I want to talk about today is a brief introduction about myself, this series about the overview of the built environment as I see it, the whole life cycle and facilities management and how that all integrates into the design process and an introduction into the five pillars of project success.'

‘From a very young age I was in and around that environment of seeing construction going on, how it was built, watching very intricate, winding oak staircases being built in the joinery shop, being onsite watching the craftsman work.'

‘We had a number of issues on that project, including one of the major contractors going bust and a client then going bust but we still managed to rescue that and get the building built with only a few weeks delay and still relatively on budget.'

‘So I learnt a lot but the big thing that it taught me was bringing in my construction experience and my facilities management experience by starting to look at the holistic, whole life cycle of a project.'

‘When it comes to projects it's a known fact that they all have issues and problems. From various surveys that I've recently read, 55% of all will have challenges and may also fail. The problems can include delay, cost overruns, quality issues, reputation damage, that sort of thing.'

‘I'm going to be looking at this from an American point of view, a UK and European point of view, a Caribbean point of view and how we can mould all these different styles together to get the best out of our built environment.'

VALUABLE RESOURCES

https://www.ianjrogers.com/

ABOUT THE HOST

Ian Rogers is an entrepreneur running businesses in the Real Estate, Construction and Facilities Management arena. Ian has over 40 years' industry experience, as he was effectively born into construction with his father having his own building company and Ian spending time working on sites from the age of 11!. As a result Ian has seen the industry from a trades person perspective, as a chartered quantity surveyor working on large commercial projects, as a project manager and then working on structured project finance through PFI/PPP deals. This has given Ian a unique whole life approach to any project by considering the end game at the beginning.

CONTACT METHOD

 https://www.ianjrogers.com/

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