Design is progressing without a release schedule
Discipline issue dates are disconnected from construction and procurement needs, and packages arrive out of sequence.
Project Management Services A4
Design management: documentation you can actually build from
We manage designers rather than simply handing over a brief. The outcome is a construction-ready documentation set, delivered on schedule and without cost escalation at installation.
How it is bought
- Format
- A standalone Managed Service, or inside a PMC contract
- Fee
- Monthly team rate
- Who it is for
- Owners with their own team but a gap in one competence
- Projects
- 3 projects
We reply within 1 business day. A commercial proposal follows within 5 business days of the scoping meeting.
In substance
What this service is
Most construction cost overruns are created during design: undeveloped details, uncoordinated disciplines, solutions that ignore installation method and material availability. Design management closes that gap before mobilisation. Within the consortium, design is delivered by Prime Design, a first-category licensed design organisation.
When you need this service
Disciplines are not coordinated
Clashes between architectural, structural, HVAC, plumbing and electrical packages surface on site rather than in the model.
Design decisions inflate installation cost
Details are undeveloped, support structures are missing, specified materials have unavailable logistics.
Expert review keeps rejecting the documentation
Comments repeat and every iteration pushes construction start further out.
Changes are uncontrolled
Revisions go straight into working drawings with no assessment of cost and schedule impact.
What we do
Design brief and designer selection
We write the brief from asset and operational requirements, then prequalify and tender design organisations.
Documentation release schedule
A release schedule derived from construction and procurement needs, with delivery tracked against it.
Interdisciplinary coordination and review
Completeness and interface checks, design review and constructability review.
Value engineering
Analysis of design solutions to reduce cost without losing performance — from thermal calculations to installation methodology.
Expert review
We take the project through statutory expert review to a positive statement and close out comments.
Change control
Changes are registered, assessed for cost and schedule impact, and taken through approval.
Deliverables
Deliverables
The specific documents, reports and management products that remain with the client.
- Design brief and requirements matrix
- Documentation release schedule aligned to construction and procurement
- Design review and constructability review records
- Clash register and closure status
- Value engineering report with quantified benefit
- Positive expert review statement
- Construction-ready documentation set
- Design change register
Client outcomes
Documentation you can build from
Completeness and coordination are verified before mobilisation.
Savings from decisions, not from quality
Value engineering reduces cost at the stage where change is still free.
Design duration under control
Documentation release is subordinated to the construction and procurement schedule.
Fewer improvised works
Developed details remove the need for on-site improvisation and rework.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Not answered here? Write to us and we will respond on your case.
It is the analysis of design solutions to reduce delivery cost while preserving required performance. From our own projects: a thermal calculation showed that insulation thickness could be reduced, while an undeveloped façade sub-structure and ventilation gap detail threatened cost growth at installation — the corrections removed the risk of improvised works and held the budget. On another project, detailed setting-out and a change of crane type produced material savings for the client.
Both. In the Technical Customer format we manage external design organisations. Under EPCM, design is delivered inside the consortium by Prime Design, first-category licence.
Yes, and it often is. We start with an audit of the issued documentation and the release schedule, then build a recovery plan for completeness and coordination.
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A1
Technical Customer
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A2
EPCM
A single managing contractor across engineering, procurement and construction management.
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A5
Project Controls
Schedule, cost, progress and forecast: a defensible project status every month.
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B5
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Instrumented structural survey: defects, load capacity, recommendations.
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Shall we discuss your project?
Tell us about the asset and the current stage — we will propose a working format and team composition. A commercial proposal follows within five business days of the meeting.
We reply within 1 business day. A commercial proposal follows within 5 business days of the scoping meeting.