Business Overview:
- Civil contracting arm of one of the largest and oldest business conglomerates in UAE.
- Partnership between UAE based business house and a 145-year-old German construction firm
- Built over 75 projects in housing, commercial, industrial buildings, hospitals and infrastructure setups
Base Case Context
- Build a process centric approach to project planning, design and execution
- Devise a dynamic planning mechanism to continuously monitor progress and preempt delay
- Reduce wastage, reworks and improve forecasting vs actual utilization of equipment
- Re-engineer the commercial processes to improve cash realization, claims / variations and client management
Program Management
- We led across 3 layers of engagement management starting from site functional leadership to project leadership and corporate management
- Hand-held and mentored blue-collared and white collared staff on nuances of process based dynamic project planning / execution, information flow and escalation mechanism
Coverage
- Focus on all site, planning, corporate and plant / yard functions
- Covered over 8 projects simultaneously run and over 500 personnel deployed across UAE
- Utilized Kaizen and re-engineering methodologies to improve approximately 90 processes
Impact:
- Improved adherence to the project plan execution and reduction of reworks (by improving communication between client, architect, design and site team/s
- Reduced receivables through better monitoring of quantity surveying, invoicing and clarifications on claims / variations
- Successfully trained and mentored on dynamic project planning and execution
- Implemented a 2-month, 2-week and 2-day site management planning sheets that were dynamically updated to improve overall execution
Synergy with stakeholders
- Designed concurrent processing mechanism to improve integration between procurement and site execution team
- Developed a pre-planning process (comprising estimation, Sr. PM and planning manager) to conduct a comprehensive calibration exercise before mobilizations
- Built an integrated process decommission and utilize site materials in other ongoing projects, thereby reducing the equipment purchase and “on-hire” services
