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Education nowConstructing Schools: Management

Top ten tips from experience as a Project Manager and CABE Enabler

Clive Birch, Director Buro Four

Wed 10 December 2008

Buro Four

top ten tips – no. 1

St Matthew Academy, Lewisham

top ten tips – no. 1

St Matthew Academy, Lewisham

1. Visit some schools with the architect and services engineer share a common language understand the design before the drawings arrive

top ten tips – no. 2

Folkestone Academy, Kent

top ten tips – no. 2

Folkestone Academy, Kent

2. Understand what design and construction ingredients make a really good school concepts details materials

top ten tips – no. 3

Chafford Hundred School, Thurrock

top ten tips – no. 3

Chafford Hundred School, Thurrock

3. Make sure the design and the budget are compatible don’t take the ‘delight’ out of the building by ‘dumbing

down’ good value engineering preserves ‘delight’ as an

essential no chance to put it back later

top ten tips – no. 4

Bradford Academy

top ten tips – no. 4

4. Really engage with your supply chain collectively at the right time developing real partnerships sharing risk and reward not building contingency on contingency developing component solutions and details

• to save time

• more appropriate to the user

Bradford Academy

top ten tips – no. 5 Leigh Academy, Kent

top ten tips – no. 5

Leigh Academy, Kent

5. Make programme time and contingency available for operational changes – they will almost certainly occur initiate ‘day in the life’ tests talk to a team that may have built a similar school find out where the traps might be

top ten tips – no. 6

Parliament Hill School, Camden

top ten tips – no. 6

Parliament Hill School, Camden

6. Build a typical teaching area early in the programme for trialling on site in the old buildings somewhere else trial with pupils and staff

top ten tips – no. 7

John Madejski Academy, Reading

top ten tips – no. 7

John Madejski Academy, Reading

7. Don’t present a fait accompli programme to the project manager open minded collaborative approach could be better for everyone

top ten tips – no. 8

Peacehaven Community School

top ten tips – no. 8

Peacehaven Community School

8. Find a better solution to remedying snags and defects – it will improve your profit going back into an operational school is at least twice as

expensive as you might believe

top ten tips – no. 9Chafford Hundred School,

Thurrock

top ten tips – no. 9Chafford Hundred School,

Thurrock 9. Leave a legacy that you are personally proud of

top ten tips – no. 10

Leigh Academy, Kent

top ten tips – no. 10

Leigh Academy, Kent

10.Good buildings can encourage good behaviour and outcomes personal behaviour skills, knowledge qualifications

top ten tips – no. 11

Peacehaven Community School

John Madejski Academy, Reading

top ten tips – no. 11

Peacehaven Community School

11. Remember

Collaboration + Cooperation + Commitment

=

Client satisfaction + Improvement + Profit

John Madejski Academy, Reading

project managers and consultants

Clive BirchDirector

cbirch@burofour.co.uk

London Office:300 St. John Street

LondonEC1V 4PP

t. 020 7833 8663f. 020 7833 8560

also in manchester, birmingham and leeds

www.burofour.co.uk

Thank you for

listening

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