Hooker Cockram is able to provide skilled personnel and management tools to work in house for clients.
By utilising this service, clients are able to gain the advantage of Hooker Cockram’s skills, knowledge and systems established in its long history as construction managers.
The principal focus of this service is on the management of time, cost and quality.
Any organisation that is completing project based works, which need stringent control of time, cost and quality can benefit from the project controls service offered by Hooker Cockram.
Examples could include:
- An organisation completing multiple construction projects each year, where construction is outside their core business.
- An organisation completing projects where controlling and forecasting cost is of prime importance.
- An organisation providing services to clients which include a project based component, where control of time and cost parameters is not in their sphere of expertise.
- An organisation that has a project where a portion of the project involves construction works.
- What can Hooker Cockram provide to clients to assist them to manage their projects?
- Skilled personnel with a project mindset, who manage the cost and time parameters on the clients behalf.
The Procost Project Management System for cost management.
- The Procost Project Management System was developed in house with the following requirements:
- A comprehensive format and set of procedures for financial management of projects.
- Provide project teams and clients with progressive information about the financial status of projects.
- Provide a uniform basis for comparison of actual performance against budgets and for taking corrective action to avoid or minimise overruns.
- Provide a document control and document management system that provides full recording and tracking facilities as well as linking cost issues to the costing module.
MOST IMPORTANTLY
"To ensure that at the end of the day our clients gets no surprises in terms of what they expect to pay for the project".
Procost operates using a "Forecast Cost at Completion" methodology. Forecasting is a three stage process, through an estimate, to a forecast, to a commitment. Procost manages the costs at all three stages to ensure that at any time the client knows what the Forecast Final Cost" of the project will be.
Proper use of the tools by skilled personnel will identify problems associated with cost parameters at the earliest possible stage.
Confidence in the reporting of the current status of a project enables management to make appropriate decisions regarding project issues.
Set procedures ensure consistency in reporting and the cost management process.
Early prediction of the Cost at Completion gives confidence in project outcomes.
Integrity of data using a database is guaranteed. Not subject to human error, inconsistency, alterations to standards.
Scheduling
Project activity planning and control is managed through the effective use of construction schedules. These are produced at varying levels of detail to ensure the overall time objectives of our projects are met. Generally, each project will have;
- Master schedule
- Design schedule (Where applicable)
- Pre-construction/Procurement schedule
- Long lead item order and delivery schedule
- Construction schedule – long term
- Construction schedule – short term
- Commissioning schedule
The construction programming software utilised on projects is either Micro Planner Xpert or Microsoft Project. These software systems have the capacity to produce interlinked schedules for large, complex projects.
Our construction personnel are trained in the use of the software packages. To ensure ownership of the process construction schedules are generated, monitored and updated by the individual site teams.
Quality Assurance
Hooker Cockram is committed
to achieving agreed Quality Assurance objectives for every project. Site
specific Quality Assurance Plans are prepared in accordance with the international
standard ISO 9000.
Every Quality Assurance plan is established in compliance with the contract documentation and with the quality objectives of the Client. The objective of the Quality Assurance Plan is to ensure the quality standards are set, monitored and enforced
