CLPM Pre-Construction Services - Helping You Plan & Build Better

Pre-Construction Services

Are you in the pre-construction phase of your building project? Once you have checked the affordability of your outline designs and obtained planning permission, your architect or designer can move onto the next stage. This involves working up your Building Regulations drawings. Including pulling together the programmes, schedules and specifications required to build.

All designers are passionate about design. But some are less experienced about the day-to-day complexities of construction. Most won’t have the technical knowledge to advise you on the finer details of improving your home’s thermal performance and energy efficiency. They probably can’t help you select the most appropriate heating and hot water systems.

Getting CLPM to review your plans and documentation in the pre-construction phase of your project will help ensure they are the best they can be. Before you begin looking for your build team.

How our Pre-Construction Services can help

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Document Review

Having an independent third party check through all your design information and documentation in the pre-construction phase is a sensible idea. We can check for omissions, errors, inconsistencies, complications and cost opportunities. All of which will save time and money later on.

We will check you have the correct detailed ‘hymn sheet’. This is what is needed for all parties to plan and carry out your build.

CLPM have an expertise in construction methodology, costs, energy performance and heating. So using our pre-construction services at this early stage will enable you to enhance and future-proof your designs.

Having an impartial expert check and query the detail or suggest areas to save money is an important stage to complete before you start to talk to builders.

How a Design Review can help

Architectural Practice Testimonial

“CLPM have an empathy with design-related issues and are team players. They have worked closely alongside us, and we do not feel that, as a result, we have lost any control over the design and detailing of the buildings. We’re definitely batting on the same side.”

– Anderson Orr Architects, Oxfordshire

Schedule of Works

A Schedule of Works forms part of the contract and lists the works required for a building project. It’s a bit like a shopping list. They are often produced alongside drawings by an architect. In addition to specifications and preliminaries (site management requirements). They are likely to form part of the tender documentation and then contract documents for your building project.

If you are carrying out alteration works or a smaller refurbishment and have not worked with a designer, then our project management team can create a Schedule of Works for you. This can then be used as an instructional list for builders to price against.

The more thorough the Schedule of Works. The more accurate the tender returns will be from the contractors. Read more in the case study below.

How a Schedule of Works can help

Programmes

Project start and end dates are a key part of a building contract. But you also need to know what’s happening in-between. As a client you need to control the length of your build. Any delays will lead to extra costs for you – such as storage costs or rental if you need to move out of your home. This is the last thing you want if your builder disappearing on another job halfway through the build.

A detailed, realistic programme with key milestones is a very useful document as it will help you to assess the progress of the works.

CLPM can prepare a programme for your project. Having this information will help prevent delays. It will enable you to make sure that everything is on site when required – and will create a meaningful reference point for discussion with your build team.

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Why CLPM?

Because appointing CLPM to provide pre-construction services will give your project the best possible start.

Whether you choose to have a CLPM project manager over-seeing your build or want to organise and control the build yourself, appointing CLPM before you go onsite will mean you plan better – so you’ll achieve a far superior result.

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