schofield lothian

project management

Whatever the sector, whatever the project, success is dependent on quality management. Whether you are looking to fill a specific role, or for a complete cross-discipline team to take a project from inception through to final handover, you can rely on us to provide highly trained professionals across a range of sectors and disciplines.

Moreover, we deliver solutions.

• Project Management - The successful management of projects requires skill, experience and commitment. We work in close collaboration with our clients to ensure their aims and aspirations are fully understood and ultimately, their goals are achieved. Our diverse skills base ensures that whatever the phase of the project, whether it is feasibility or delivery, we can deliver.

Our professionals bring an independent perspective. Their breadth of experience across both the public and private sectors enables them to undertake thorough and effective strategic reviews of a project or an organisation.

Winning new projects is vital to the health of any business, but the process takes resources away from day-to-day operations. We can provide you with the specialist resource with a proven track record of successful bid management, PFI support and mobilisation management.

• Design Management - Management of design professionals is often key to successfully delivering projects. We provide professional managers who are skilled in their management techniques, getting the best out of the design houses and achieving both technical excellence and conformance to standards in the specified timeframe.

• Planning & Risk Management - Any successful project has effective planning and programme management at its core. No project is trouble-free, but with their breadth and depth of experience our professionals can take an objective view of your project, establishing planning controls that can anticipate the unusual, identify solutions, reduce uncertainty and clarify objectives. The identification and qualification of risk based around the real issues which abound in any project adds real value to the delivery of the project.

• Statutory Consents - Whatever the project, whatever the size, we can take away the worry about any form of statutory consent. Whether it is in the preparation of, the assurance of, the conformance with or simply the provision of advice, we can provide it using professionalism and expertise.

• Town & Country Planning - Originally introduced as a support to our consents offering, we can provide a full planning service with experienced professionals to aid our clients in the delivery of their projects.

• Stakeholder Management - An essential service in this modern age where Stakeholders can be numerous and require considerable liaison and consultation to achieve the project goals. We provide experienced professionals well versed in the needs of various sectors to manage and communicate with the project team and the project stakeholders.

• Facilities Management - Space Management, renovation, new build, plant management and maintenance or the establishing or decommissioning of laboratories, we advise and implement effective systems for our clients.

• M&E Design - Our teams deliver design solutions to your specific problems with a full portfolio of supporting documentation including operating manuals and maintenance guides. We can ensure the smooth installation of building services and successfully deliver during this critical phase of any programme.

• Condition Surveys/Asset Management - Today’s growing legislation requires essential surveying of building conditions and equipment to ensure compliance. Our specialists can create effective registers of assets, allowing capital expenditure and maintenance programmes to be properly described. We can then effectively manage these programmes to time and budget.

• Environmental Management – The drive for sustainability, the requirements of today’s environmental legislation and government policies have meant that environmental issues have become more complex, particularly for the construction industry.

It has become increasingly important for organisations to integrate effective environmental management into all aspects of their operations, helping to reduce risk, maximise opportunities and manage budgets and programmes.

We can handle the management of the environmental risk on behalf of clients from inception through design to implementation. Our approach is flexible and hands on, understanding our client’s changing priorities and pressures, and based on extensive technical expertise.

• Environmental Training - Training that enables you to develop your own environmental management capabilities. Our trainers are all practising Environmental Managers able to tailor courses that give your employees the environmental knowledge they need to manage their operations and projects successfully. Over the last 4 years alone we have trained over 5,000 professionals.

Strategic Environmental Consultancy - We can advise on a wide range of key issues from corporate responsibility and sustainability through to carbon management and Site Waste Management Plans.

The following are examples of projects where we have delivered these services:

» baa heathrow t5

» shortlands junction

» westminster schools

» tpws

» whittington hospital

» west london tram