There are progress meetings on my clients' sites - inspecting the works and understanding the projects' risks. Then back to the office to delve into the plethora of deliverables across other sites: reviewing valuations for stage payments to the contractor, studying drawings, specifications and proposals, analysing new schemes, undertaking due diligence, and much more. It varies greatly and depends on the client. If the project is procured via a framework the contractors will have been pre-qualified. If not, we will handle competitive tendering on behalf of our client from the outset looking at the contractor risk profile, undertaking due diligence on the site and reviewing the financial appraisal. The agreements I administer are mainly design and build contracts. As a result, except for elements beyond the contractor's control, such as weather and utilities, the risk to our clients has been minimised as far as is practical. I use regular progress meetings with the contractors to probe them on construction risks and what they are doing to mitigate these.
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