Description

Ian presents the carved in stone, never to be ignored seven deadly sins that, when indulged in, can see your construction project fail. 

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Excessive change orders. These occur due to poor initial planning resulting in the client realising part way through that they are not getting the desired result. 
• Scope creep. As the project progresses the client realises he needs to change the plans due to, once again, poor initial planning. 
• The dictation of the contractor. Because of poor contract planning the contractor can demand changes to how the work is done or financed and change timings and deadlines.
• Poor client control. This is the client looping often in fantastical, impractical and poorly thought out ways over the recommendations of the designers and initial plan.
• Poor schedule management. This is another poor initial plan in which the order of works and timescale is not fixed comprehensively.
• Productivity Issues. Labour shortages, skill shortages and the contractors desire to cut costs can create a shortfall in reaching planned milestones.
• Lack of communication and documentation. Clear data passing among the different areas of construction is paramount. 

BEST MOMENTS

‘As a result of that you've got cost overrun, particularly if you haven't got sufficient contingency allowed for.'  

‘This can often shift the liability and can also mean the client doesn't get what he wants. Quite often the contractor will try and cut costs by reducing the quality of the installation, the finishes and all of that sort of thing.'

‘It is important that the schedule is dealt with correctly right at the very beginning and is robustly stress tested to make sure that it is robust for the project in hand.'

VALUABLE RESOURCES

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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

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