Introduction to our support services
HPC believe that ‘Planning a Project’ from inception through to defects completion is fundamental to the success of a Project. It not only creates a framework within which all activities are organised but also provides systematic progress feedback to enable slippages in programmes to be identified at an early stage. This in turn permits effective management action to be taken to mitigate the effects of any slippage in the programme due to additional works and variation.
Project Planning, in common with Cost Management, is a subject that touches all the boundaries of a Project. No decision should be made, or action carried out without an understanding of both cost and programmed implications. Planning, therefore, involves everybody on the project.
"Achieving success is when one gains the habit of setting goals and realising them."
Michael Harvey, Senior Partner HPC Ltd
Communicating the programme is also important and to ensure that individuals or Companies receive the appropriate amount of information, the programmes are produced at a series of levels.
The Planning Software adopted on a project should be used consistently across all projects and the specification of “Project Planning Requirements” should be built into all Contracts to enable a unified planning approach to be adopted.
“Assign a deadline to your biggest objectives and stick to it so they don’t become just another litany of “what ifs” and sad regrets.”
Carlos Wallace
Our Objectives
HPC’s objectives at the pre-construction phase are to create an integrated suite of programmes, charts, and drawings which through their production, logically analyses the Project sequencing and timing in order to fully pre-engineer the project.
This pre-engineering philosophy is of paramount importance, in that the work was undertaken during the Pre-Construction period is all about properly and professionally setting up the project so that the construction stage is simply about undertaking the already agreed plans and strategies. This pre-engineering work is fundamental in order that a “nothing is left to chance” environment prevails.
The process of planning a Project is about teamwork and must not be seen as the sole jurisdiction of a single individual. It is vital that the whole Project. The team contributes to, and agrees, to the planning of each stage of the project, be they Owner, Designer, Manager, Contractor or Sub-Contractor.
Communicating the programme is also important and to ensure that individuals or Companies receive the appropriate amount of information, the programmes are produced at a series of levels.
The Planning Software adopted on a project should be used consistently across all projects and the specification of “Project Planning Requirements” should be built into all Contracts to enable a unified planning approach to be adopted.
Poor planning requires luck and circumstance, strong planning acknowledges cause and effect."
Michael Harvey, Senior Partner HPC Ltd