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Phase 02 – Delivery and coordination · Construction and operation

Construction coordination

FM "supervision" · Preparing operations during construction

During construction, decisions are made about changes that operations will then carry every day – and the future operator is usually not at the table.

We coordinate construction from the operations perspective: we make sure the operational requirements from the brief survive changes and cuts, and we prepare operations to start on handover day, not six months later.

We do not replace construction or technical supervision – we add the perspective that is otherwise missing on site.

When to address this

  • Materials, technologies and layouts change on site and nobody evaluates what that does to operations and its costs.
  • Operational requirements from the brief gradually disappear to save money in the short term.
  • Or it turns out at takeover that the equipment cannot be accessed and nobody thought about servicing.

Deliverables

  • Assessments of changes with an impact on operations and costs – evaluating changes during construction from the operations perspective, before they are approved
  • Inspection of critical points from the operations perspective
    • Identifying the places where the future operation is being decided: access to equipment, service spaces and routes, consumption metering, but also critical details of building structures
    • Attending site meetings at points with an impact on operations, with records of whether the requirements from the operational strategy brief are actually being delivered
  • Operations mobilisation plan and its status
    • Selecting the facility manager, contracts for services and energy, team competences – all before completion
    • Continuous takeover of documentation from the contractor goes hand in hand with project information management coordination
  • Register of deviations and defects from the operations perspective – an input for commissioning and building handover, together with a recommendation on what commissioning should focus on

Scope can be narrowed

A common entry point is a one-off assessment of a major change from the operations perspective, or preparing operations in the last six months of construction as handover approaches.

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