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1 Your gateway to the construction market in the Greater London Region, the Home Counties & the UK

Introduction to Q Projects

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Q Projects is a newly founded business process outsourcing (BPO) and professional services company. We provide back office administration, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and engineering and marketing contact services to private sector organisations from the UK and Ireland. As a small company our flexible structure enables us to efficiently deliver multiple services in a highly cost-effective manner to sole-traders, partnerships and companies across multiple markets in the UK, the Middle East, North Africa, Singapore, Hong Kong and PR China.

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Your gateway to the construction market in the Greater London Region, the Home Counties & 

the UK 

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Also access offered to hundreds of key construction industry contacts in Singapore, Hong Kong and PR China.  

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Q Projects provides new business development; pre‐contract management and construction project management support services for clients in the construction services and built environment industries. 

• The principals at Q Projects are both engineers and marketers as well as being seasoned construction project managers.  Uniquely this allows us to offer an end‐to‐end service to our clients in finding, winning and project managing construction based orders and contracts.

“Our goals are to establish mutually profitable and long‐term business relationships between UK / MENA region construction services buyers on the 

one side and our global client firms on the other” 

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Our Projects Team is made up of both Irish and British born engineers who each have 10 to 35 years construction experience.

Q Projects is staffed by professional designers, project managers, engineers and marketing professionals who as a group have many decades of construction business development and project management experience in the UK, Ireland and mainland Europe. 

We have worked for some of the major ‘Tier 1’ Principle Contractors operating in the UK, on projects such as the following in the Greater London area: ‐

• Olympics 2012• British Aviation Authority – Heathrow & Gatwick Airports• Metronet / Tubelines /Transport for London• Wembley Stadium• Emirates Stadium

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The CEO & founder of Q Projects, Patrick Gunning, first worked in construction in the UK in 1976 and came to live & work permanently in London in 1988.

Patrick has experience ranging from “Greenfield” construction contract Management to final fit‐out completion having worked as an Engineer, Site Supervisor, Site Manager & Project Manager 

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UK Construction Industry ‐ Contractual Documents e.g., JCT /  NEC 1,2,3, etc. Contract standard terms are constantly changing and driven or dictated by principle contractors and / or statutory regulations. ‐ Contractors must be totally familiar with JCT / NEC1,2 &3‐ Knowledge of all current and applicable regulations  is absolutely imperative as any aspect not covered will cause delays and costs.

All current relevant legislation must be strictly adhered to

Proof of ability to comply is now often a part of pre‐tender

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Projects will typically have client imposed project tools and methods of reporting which contractors must fully utilise, e.g., Primavera 6 and 8Oracle's Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management is a powerful, robust, and easy‐to‐use solution for globally prioritizing, planning, managing, and executing projects, programs, and portfolios. 

Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management is an integrated project portfolio management (PPM) solution comprising role‐specific functionality to satisfy each team member's needs, responsibilities and skills. 

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UK Construction Industry – Contract AdministrationDetails of the proposed contract administration system very often must be submitted with the tender. 

• Preparation of Method Statements • Risk Assessments • H&S and Environment Policy 

Statements • Quality ITP,s • Handovers • O&Ms • Document Control • Histograms 

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Setup• Preliminaries• Site set‐up / Deposit payments

Interim• Variations & Interim Valuations

Final A/C

• Final Account Valuations• Final Account Settlement

Finance , Credit,  Currencies, Valuations, Payment ApplicationsWorking with Quantity Surveyors; preparing Project Programmes;  Interim Valuations, Variations, NEC3 Compliance, Managing Compensation Events. 

• Budgeting to Project • Controlling to balance sheet • Managing exchange rates

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Introducing Barbour ABI

Founded in the 1930's, Barbour ABI has over 70 years experience in gathering, processing and delivering information on UK construction contracts. Barbour’s comprehensive construction database combines speed and accuracy with historical activity to identify trends and potential customers just for you.

Barbour tracks all planning applications, then their research team verifies and enhances every construction project by communicating with key industry professionals. Each project is then monitored as it progresses through the planning cycle, until the final subcontractor arrives on site.

Using their innovative and extensive range of products and services, Barbour clients can subscribe specifically to the construction intelligence they require, in the format that best suits their needs.

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"On the Spot" Convenience• No appointment necessary• Bank cards issued in store• Cheques issued in store• Business account switching service

*Subject to Metro Bank Terms & Conditions – please visit Metro Bank website for details on

www.metrobankonline.co.uk

Opening a business bank account in the UK is normally a slow and highly bureaucratic process. But not for Q Projects clients.

Through our partnership with Metro Bank, your new UK company business account can be up and running within days*.

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• Your own UK “Virtual” Office at The Arena, Stockley Park, Uxbridge, West London – close to Heathrow Airport

• Modern flexi‐offices and meeting spaces when you require • UK telephone answering in your company name

Option to outsource part  of your UK  marketing or operational functions  as required to Q Projects 

Q Projects Engineering and Marketing personnel available to your company on a Per Diem or hourly basis 

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JUST 10 MINUTES FROM  HEATHROW AIRPORT TO YOUR UK OFFICE IN STOCKLEY PARK 

HIGH‐SPEED TRAIN SERVICE FROM HEATHROW TO 

CENTRAL LONDON

YOUR NEW UK OFFICE IS SURROUNDED BY AN 

18 HOLE GOLF COURSE

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Q Projects owns and our sister company Fairway Gunning Consulting administers the Construction Who’s Who group on LinkedIn.com, which with well over 5,000 members, is now the single largest UK / MENA* construction‐focused groups on LinkedIn. In total we now have direct access to over 10,000 Construction, Architectural, Planning and Civil Engineering professionals in the UK alone, indirect access to over 35,000 UK construction contacts and to over 100,000 construction industry professional in these categories worldwide.    

LinkedIn is a business‐oriented social networking site which was launched in May 2003 and which now has more than 100 million registered users, spanning more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. Q Project’s LinkedIn group, Construction Who’s Who, was formally launched in August 2010.*Middle East and North Africa

Nellie – Manager of the Construction Who’s Who group on LinkedIn.

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Opportunity to get a kick‐start in to the UK construction market. 

Special access is available to thousands of construction industry contacts through our networks in the UK, Middle East, North Africa, Singapore,   Hong Kong and China from our sister company, Fairway Gunning Consulting 

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Over the past year, Q Projects has built up a database of thousands of the most important key decision‐makers in the construction industry in the UK.Our network now includes numerous CEO’s, Project Managers, Quantity Surveyors, Architects, Designers, Specifiers,  etc. 

Now Q Projects can be yourCalling Card to new clients and contracts in the UK construction market.

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Please do contact me to discuss further: ‐Patrick GunningCEO & General ManagerQ ProjectsShepherd House SuiteThe Arena, Stockley ParkUxbridge, West London, UB11 1AAUnited Kingdom, UB11 1AATelephone:              + 44 (0) 208 899 1732  Mobile (UK):           + 44 (0) 773 590 3803  Facsimile                + 44 (0) 208 181 7881Email: [email protected]: Construction Who’s Who

www.qprojects.co.uk