SPM I Services I Project Execution I Detailed Design
Working in close collaboration with our clients, we manage and coordinate all integral elements of the detailed design development aligned to a procurement strategy and reflected in a detailed master programme. A specially selected design team is matched to the specific delivery requirements.
Procurement Strategy
Planning to meet your project goals
Your procurement strategy outlines the suppliers, materials and services involved in the completion of your project and sets out how best to acquire them. It’s important to develop a clear and timely procurement plan to ensure that core business objectives and project delivery are met.
The choice of a particular procurement strategy largely depends on a client’s balance of cost, quality and time risks. By combining our clients’ requirements with our own knowledge and experience of similar projects, we identify the best way of achieving project completion with an optimum balance of risk, control and funding.
Our independence is our key asset when it comes to creating your procurement strategy. We’re not aligned to any design-build, contractors or sub-contractors. The route we advise and our reasons for recommending it are based solely on our experience and what we regard as the best strategy for our clients and their budget. We’re never driven by selling someone else’s services.
In the design phase, we take this initial model and refine it in order to achieve those goals. Adding precise detail, we plot the minutiae of every element, stage and step to create a meticulous confirmation of the original model. The resulting detailed model will consider future demand, process improvements and constraints, and will also identify areas of improvement, define business objectives and scope out the change.
The detailed model is a comprehensive map that allows us to gain insight into which scenarios would best suit the client products, processes and demand in order to reach the proposed project goals.
Facility & Services Design
Maximising the effectiveness of your processes
With the concept for the facility already established, this is the moment when we develop in more detail the functional requirements for each room and every area to ensure that all necessary safety precautions are in place.
To do this, we ask exacting questions about the detail. We walk our clients through the floor plans, asking what is needed, what is necessary and what is wanted in each and every space. This process has three crucial goals.
It firstly seeks to maximise the effectiveness of production processes to ensure a smooth flow of work, material and information throughout the system. It secondly ensures that the needs of people are integrated with the machinery and materials in such a way that it creates a single, well-functioning system. This will involve consideration of transport links, communications and the layout of machinery. Finally, it makes sure that the factory conforms to retailer standards. These are crucial requirement for suppliers of supermarkets to guarantee quality, safety and operational criteria for manufacturers and supermarkets and to provide protection for the end consumer.
Site Selection
Finding & securing the right site for you
Choosing a site is critical to the success of any project, so we work closely with you to find one that meets your current and future requirements, taking into account the interests of internal and external stakeholders.
Your feasibility study will have made a broad prediction with regard to location. In the Design phase, however, we move on to finding the exact site. To do this, we measure the needs of the new project against the merits – and possible pitfalls – of potential locations.
To determine the suitability of a site, we analyse locations on micro and macro levels with regard to numerous factors. We consider all elements such as the challenges of planning permission, size, the structural soundness of the land, the realities of vehicle movement, noise restrictions, wildlife restrictions, regional infrastructure capacity, the proximity to suppliers and customers, business costs, the costs of construction, the potential for expansion and human capital.
We go into intense detail to ensure that the potential site is right for you and your business. We conduct the surveys, evaluate purchasing decisions and conduct negotiations with landowners as part of our totally managed process.
As part of the site selection process, we undertake rigorous impact assessments to ensure your investment delivers on cost, logistics, labour availability and, ultimately, commercial viability. Our range of specialist services include:
— Support on land acquisition;
— Feasibility studies, working closely with surveyors, architects and engineers to assess the suitability of the land and identify possible problems;
— Analysis of topography, transport infrastructure, environmental issues and skills availability;
— Managing stakeholder relations, including local authorities;
— Support during the planning application process;
— A robust handover process to ensure you – along with our own experts tasked with completing the project – have all the information they need to take the plans forward