Education now Constructing 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 Visit some schools with the architect and services engineer share a common language understand the design before the drawings arrive

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

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 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

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

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

top ten tips – no. 5 Leigh Academy, Kent

top ten tips – no. 5 Leigh Academy, Kent 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

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

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 Don’t present a fait accompli programme to the project manager open minded collaborative approach could be better for everyone John Madejski Academy, Reading

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

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. 9 Chafford Hundred School, Thurrock

top ten tips – no. 9 Chafford 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 Good buildings can encourage good behaviour and outcomes personal behaviour skills, knowledge qualifications

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 Remember Collaboration + Cooperation + Commitment = Client satisfaction + Improvement + Profit John Madejski Academy, Reading

Remember

Collaboration + Cooperation + Commitment

=

Client satisfaction + Improvement + Profit

Thank you for listening project managers and consultants Clive Birch Director [email_address] London Office: 300 St. John Street London EC1V 4PP t. 020 7833 8663 f. 020 7833 8560 also in manchester, birmingham and leeds www.burofour.co.uk