DPB CONSULTANCY Commercial and Cost Management
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Skipton
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COST AND COMMERCIAL MANAGEMENT
Contractual and financial risk analysis
Introduction of new contract management approaches/methods
Contractual assistance to the client’s teams for writing and checking contractual documents
Writing of contractual letters, claims and contract variations
Assistance with costs and quantity control
Quantity surveying
Claim files analysis and negotiation process support
Settlement of the final account
Assistance in dispute resolution
Assistance to lawyers in compiling supporting arbitration files
Commercial settlement strategies and negotiations
Benchmarking and efficiency studies
Cashflow management
Change management
Project cost management
Risk and value management
Strategic cost planning and estimating
Value engineering

PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Creating the right delivery strategy for a project depends on a detailed preparation stage during which business requirements, risks, constraints and stakeholder interests are fully understood. Robust controls maintained throughout the life of the project will ensure challenges are effectively addressed to meet your time, cost and quality objectives.
Our project management approach reduces risk and helps clients deliver projects in a consistent and improved manner, no matter what stage of the project lifecycle we are appointed in.
We put client interests first, ensuring we help deliver the outcomes that matter to you. It's the formula that has helped us successfully deliver some of the industry's most complex projects the world over.

PROGRAMME MANAGEMENT
Our programme management services deliver successful projects by ensuring our clients achieve effective programming, sustainability, development, cost and building solutions. Our role is that of advocate and arbitrator: continually evaluating and balancing conflicting requirements to achieve our clients’ construction goals. Programme management is at the heart of the core services delivered by our integrated project and programme management consultancy.

CONSTRUCTION CLAIMS
Claims avoidance
Claims management
Claims drafting
Claims defence
Dispute management and resolution
Commercial settlement strategies and negotiations
Forensic delay analysis
Quantum evaluation
Termination, disruption, extension of time, additional payment and variations-based claims

PROJECT CONTROLS
Project controls are an essential element of a well organised and efficient project. The primary role of an effective project controls function is to provide the client and project manager with a means by which overall project execution can be organised, monitored and delivered in relation to cost and schedule goals, as well as regulatory, quality and safety standards.

RISK MANAGEMENT
We can implement a range of actions designed to enhance the delivery of a project’s cost and schedule elements.
Raising risk awareness
We use tried and tested methods to identify and understand the objectives of the key stakeholders in a risk management solution. From that basis we will then apply communication techniques, including risk awareness seminars, to raise the risk awareness of the client project team.
These activities make implementation of the risk management process easier and are generally essential to successful implementation of the risk management policy and its procedures as a whole.
