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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. 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
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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