How Real Estate Project Management Consultants Keep Construction on Schedule

This is the reason that many developers work with real estate project management consultants. They are responsible for planning the work, tracking the progress on the site, and identifying any constraints or coordinating various teams to ensure the project remains on track for completion.

Manomav Engineers assists in construction projects by planning, monitoring, coordinating, quality management and cost control.

Creating a Clear Construction Schedule

The critical first step to timely completion is a practical construction schedule.

Project management consultants break down the project into activities, establish a sequence of activities and assign realistic start and end dates. The time required for each activity, the materials required, and the drawings, approvals and dependencies between activities must also be considered.

Manomav has the ability to use planning tools like Primavera schedules to create visibility across the various stages of a project. The planned progress can then be compared with progress on site, to ensure that delays are identified in advance, rather than when they become difficult to catch up.

Planning Linked with Execution

Planning for construction is not just about creating a Primavera schedule.

Manomav links planning and execution by dividing the scope of the project into measurable quantities or quantums. These quantities can be monitored on approved drawings, labour, material ready, and available work fronts.

The project team can track the amount of work completed in the week, rather than just reporting a percentage of completion, for example, “60% completed.

For instance, the number of concrete cubes, masonry blocks, plaster blocks, or any other work item that is planned can be compared against the actual amount produced per week. If production is less than the desired amount, the team can ask, “Why?

It may be due to:

• insufficient labour,
• delayed materials,
• pending drawings,
• Work fronts that are not available,
• coordination issues.

This enables Real Estate Project Management Services to have a better idea of how things are going on the site as compared to what they had planned.

Identifying Bottlenecks Early

There are few delays in construction without warning.

A contractor can be behind schedule. Materials may not be available when needed. A drawing might still be pending or labour might not be available at a critical time in an important activity.

These warning signs can be detected early with regular progress monitoring.

Manomav method takes a holistic look at quantities, constraints and critical activities. This will allow the project team to know not just that the project is delayed, but why and what activity needs to be done ASAP.

Using Buffer Management to Protect the Schedule

Typically, a construction programme requires a certain amount of time contingency to address unforeseen issues.

With Buffer Management, the project team will be able to see how fast this available time is being used up.

Manomav can analyze buffer consumption along with critical path activities progress. The team will receive a heads-up if the project buffer is being consumed at a higher rate than anticipated, and critical activities are also slipping.

Corrective action can then be taken prior to the time contingency’s expiration.

The approach connects the complete time-management process:

This gives a more realistic view of project performance than monitoring individual components.

Keeping Vendors and Contractors Aligned

In big real estate projects, many contractors, consultants and vendors can be operating simultaneously. If they are not coordinated, it can easily impact the timetable.

The project management consultant serves as a single point of coordination. Progress, future needs, restrictions and responsibilities can be discussed together to ensure that a contractor’s delay does not unnecessarily cause a delay to another activity.

When materials, approvals or specialised work needs to be delivered to the site in a specific order, there is a need for extra coordination with the vendors.

Managing Materials and Labour Around Planned Quantities

Resources need to be ready when the work front is ready.

Late deliveries may lead to a loss of labour productivity. When materials are received too early, it may lead to storage and handling issues.

The project team can then determine if there are adequate resources to produce the planned amount of work for the week, by correlating the planned quantities with labour strength and material needs.

This helps to better align resource planning with site needs.

Avoiding Rework through Quality Control

Bad work can add up to another significant delay as work may have to be repaired or rebuilt.

Quality checks should thus be conducted in parallel with progress monitoring.

Manomav embraces Quality Assurance, Risk Management, BIM Coordination & Clash Detection within the project management process. Avoiding the problem of drawing or coordination issues before execution will decrease the risk of rework that will impact the construction schedule.

Conclusion

Staying on schedule on a construction project takes more than just urging contractors to work faster. Planning should be related to real quantities, resources available, site conditions, critical activities and project buffers.

These elements are brought together by real estate project management consultants who has experience in real estate project management. Structured Real Estate Project Management Services also provide developers with greater transparency with contractors, materials, quality, costs and execution progress.

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