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Posted By: Trevor Dury on 09/02/2015.
A change in behaviour is largely brought about by legislation and potential prosecution (fear factor or “stick” to beat you with) or a benefit or commercial advantage (“carrot” to reward you)...
Read morePosted By: Trevpr Drury on 06/02/2015.
Elaine Knutt of Construction Manager asks if it’s time to float a BIM style carbon mandate, with technical input from Trevor Drury
Posted By: Sarah Lewis on 30/01/2015.
Trevor Drury, has been writing a chapter on the subject of The CIOB’s Complex Project Contract for the revised edition of the The NEC compared and contrasted...
Read morePosted By: Sarah Lewis on 28/01/2015.
Try putting dispute avoidance on your Radar!
In his recent article published in Construction Manager magazine, Trevor Drury, Managing Director of Morecraft Drury explains how an anonymous reporting system can help avoid a project crisis...
Read morePosted By: Trevor Drury on 27/01/2015.
What could possibly go wrong?
Quite a lot actually!
The Project Manager sits at the top of the project hierarchy and the buck stops with him when it all goes wrong...
Posted By: Sarah Lewis on 27/01/2015.
Trevor Drury features on the home page of the ResoLex website as part of a them on "Spotlight on the Panel", highlighting members.
Posted By: Trevor Drury on 23/01/2015.
Project Management Services
The RICS published a document in May 2008 called “Project Manager Services – for use with the RICS Standard Form of Consultant’s Appointment and the RICS Short Form of Consultant’s Appointment”...
Posted By: Trevor Drury on 21/01/2015.
The RICS guidance
Considers Project Management is concerned with defining what has to be accomplished, put simply as:
• Planning what needs to be done
• Implementing the plans
• Monitoring and controlling the project work
• Risk management
The required processes should be set out in a Project Execution Plan or PEP for short...
Posted By: Trevor Drury on 21/01/2015.
Project Management is a Risky Business. Part Three – The RICS Guidance
In the 3rd of a series of 5 short videos Trevor Drury, Managing Director of Morecraft Drury explores the role of Project Manager, with reference to The RICS Guidance...
Read morePosted By: Trevor Drury on 19/01/2015.
Appointing a Project Manager : RICS Guidance
This RICS document is its 1st Edition dated April 2013 and is a Guidance Note as far as a Chartered Surveyor is concerned and is “Recommended Good Practice”
RICS members are not required to follow the recommendations however:
“When an allegation of professional negligence is made against a surveyor, a court or tribunal may take account of the contents of any relevant guidance notes published by RICS in deciding whether or not the member had acted with reasonable competence”
So a failure to follow the Guidance Note by an RICS member could place them in a difficult situation ...