Planning & Programming

Thanks to our extensive onsite experience, our effective project planning services can make a very real contribution to ensuring that projects are completed on time and on budget, and in ways that meet sustainability criteria. By leveraging innovative planning software and meticulous baseline reviews, we ensure our clients can meet their contractual obligations.

Effective project planning is the cornerstone of project success, and enables even the most intricate and extensive projects to be completed timeously, and on budget.

The opposite is also true: failure to adequately plan a project increases the risk of encountering financial and reputational setbacks.

Kingsbourne has a proven ability to assist project planning teams on the journey from conceptualisation to tender submission, contract awarding and implementation. To deliver world-class project management solutions, we employ cutting-edge planning software from organisations such as CCS, Primavera and Microsoft.

Setting up tender schedules/programmes

Our baseline programmes and schedules are driven by accurate resource links, and are determined by methods of construction and contractual requirements. We ensure that our baseline programmes are aligned with the relevant tender and contract drawings and specifications, method of construction and contractual requirements.

Baseline reviews

Without a sound baseline programme, claims for extension of time are unlikely to succeed. By engaging Kingsbourne to conduct an upfront review of your baseline programme, you’ll know exactly where you stand from day one.

Once the baseline programme has been set up, we regularly update programmes and reports.

Retrospective programme analysis

As well as prospective (or forward-looking) analysis, we can conduct forensic (or backward-looking) analysis. We adhere to industry-recognised programme delay analysis methodologies including:

As-Planned versus As-Built Analysis
Window Analysis (Contemporaneous Period Analysis)
Time Impact Analysis (Fragnet Analysis)
Impacted As-Planned Analysis
Collapsed As-Built Analysis (But-For Analysis)

Onsite monitoring

We also offer ongoing, onsite project monitoring and support or on an agreed interval basis, as required. This level of objective oversight can eliminate uncertainty and deliver accurate reporting.

Tender advice

Identifying risks – and how they might change – is a fundamental aspect of the enquiry and tender documentation review process. Proactively designing strategies to manage these risks before signing a construction contract is vital if disputes and cost overruns are to be averted once project work begins.

These risks can be either commercial or legal in nature; both have the potential to derail otherwise profitable projects and substantially inflate costs. Inadequate resource-hour allocation and improper allowances within tender programmes often serve as breeding grounds for disputes. Partnering with Kingsbourne ensures that resource allocations will accurately reflect the composition of the tender price, thereby mitigating potential conflicts.

Our experience in contract conditions covers FIDIC, JBCC (South Africa), NEC, COLTO, GCC (South Africa), Australian Government forms of contract and bespoke forms of contract. Should bespoke conditions be required or requested by employer bodies, we possess the necessary flexibility and expertise to accommodate these unique needs, further enhancing our clients’ peace of mind.