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Stage 01 of 07

Brief & feasibility

Before anything is drawn, the job is defined.

We manage

  • Client brief and scope
  • Budget and cost plan
  • Site survey and constraints
  • Approvals route

Survey · ground level +0.0 m

Programme

Week 01

Why it needs managing

A building is a thousand decisions in the right order.

Most projects that go over do not fail on the big calls. They fail on the small ones nobody owned: the inspection booked a day late, the window ordered a month late, the variation agreed on site and priced at the end.

01

Sequence

Every trade depends on the one before it. Get the order wrong and the whole site waits.

02

Paper

Inspections, tests and certificates have to be earned at the right moment, or they cannot be earned at all.

03

Money

A budget drifts one unpriced variation at a time. Someone has to stand between the site and your account.

02

What we manage

Six things owned.
None of them yours to chase.

The same six run through every stage of the build. Pick one to see what it means on site.

03

Reporting

Every Friday,
the whole site on one page.

Programme, cost, quality and safety, written for the person paying for the building rather than the people on it.

Weekly report · Week 17

Seven-storey mixed use, West Rand

Sample · illustrative figures
  • Level 4 slab pourPoured Tuesday, cubes takenDone
  • Level 5 columnsRebar inspection ThursdayOn programme
  • Ground floor plumbingPressure test bookedOn programme
  • Aluminium windowsSupplier lead time confirmed at 6 weeksWatch
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Where we run projects

Residential, commercial and industrial.

The same method at every scale: one programme, one budget, one person accountable for both.

01

Residential

Homes, additions, townhouse and cluster developments, and full renovations where several trades have to work as one job.

  • New homes
  • Additions and second storeys
  • Cluster developments

02

Commercial

Offices, retail, fit-outs and refurbishments, often in occupied buildings where the programme has to work around tenants.

  • Office fit-outs
  • Retail refurbishments
  • Common-area upgrades

03

Industrial

Warehouses, factories and yards, where the slab, the services and the access roads carry more load than anything else.

  • Warehouses
  • Factory upgrades
  • Yards and access roads
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How it starts

One brief.
One person accountable.

  1. 01

    Send the brief

    What you want to build, where, and roughly when. Drawings if you have them, a paragraph if you do not.

  2. 02

    Scope and budget

    A project manager goes through it with you and sets out the scope, the budget and the route to approvals.

  3. 03

    Appoint the team

    Contractors from the vetted panel price the same scope. You approve the appointment and the contract.

  4. 04

    Build and report

    The project is run to programme, and you hear how it is going every week without having to ask.

06

Questions

Asked before every appointment.

Owns the programme, the budget and the quality of the work on your behalf. That means running site meetings, coordinating every trade, inspecting work before it is covered, approving payments against work done, and collecting the certificates at the end.

07

Start a project

Have a project to run?
Send the brief.

Tell us what kind of project it is and how far along it is. A project manager reads it and comes back to you on scope, budget and programme.

Sheet 01 · perspective

Project type

Where it is now

Client

You

Project manager

Arabella Infrastructure Solutions

Dwg no.

AIS-PM-001

Rev

E

Status

For brief