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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
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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