James started with us as a student intern and quickly progressed to an undergraduate employee while he finished his final year. We were so excited when he completed his studies and became a full time Graduate employee.

Choosing the right contractor isn’t as simple as basing your decision on price alone. A thorough assessment of all aspects of submissions received should be undertaken, with price merely a part of forming your choice of the winning contractor.

Remember the old adage - you get what you pay for!

A project is like an iceberg – the end result is just the tip. There is an immense amount of thought, effort and preparation that goes on under the surface and mislabeling the procurement type can put cracks in the ice.

Raising children and working a fulfilling career should not have to battle. Many choose to put one on hold to prioritise the other, many feel forced into that decision. There’s no instruction manual for the perfect ‘balance’, but here’s Sinead’s thoughts.

When there’s a problem on your project, you can either deal with it or you can avoid it. If you’re the type to avoid it, this article is for you.

Many of the reasons we experience supply chain delays are common, and this commonality makes them predictable. So what can we do to ensure that equipment arrives when we need it?

As government tenders continue to shift to require more social benefits for their local communities, it’s important for consultancies to understand their role and what they can do to stand out.

Properly briefing Consultants is key to the success of your project and ensures that they can provide the services you require in the time and at the price needed.

Projects Managers have the habit of overcomplicating projects. Aside from creating more unnecessary work, overcomplicating projects often ends in failure. So how do you know what to let go of in order to simplify a project?

A project manager should know how to mitigate conflict by being able to identify the resolution that has the least impact on the project timeline, budget, and quality.

Is Buying Local a great policy that delivers long-lasting community benefits or just a set of rules to be worked around?

As a business owner, engineer, project manager, wife, mother, daughter, sister, friend, wannabe runner, lover of cooking and eater of too much takeaway, I certainly do not have all the answers to managing time. What I do have is a work ‘to-do list’ and a strategy of how to prioritise it.

There are so many aspects to communication that we are taught in project management, however as the world we are living in is becoming progressively more digital, that’s all changing. While email is a fantastic tool for transferring information, it is not a medium designed to completely replace conversation.

A good project team is versatile and full of potential but without the right leadership and resources, they won’t be engaged in your project.

When every organisation has their own templates and each person has their own style, tender documents skew the definition of ‘contract’. If tender documents are designed to clarify scope, prevent conflict and reduce risk, why are they often so poorly written?

When the population of GEMS Data Load tools is passed onto an administrative role with no technical background, the likelihood of capturing assets accurately is significantly reduced. While the asset capturing process may appear to be data entry, the comprehension, review and translation of assets requires technical aptitude.

Project Managers are consistently trying to reduce the time and cost of projects in order to achieve targets. Whether the pressure is coming from the sponsors or an impending event, the sands keep falling. When looking for time to cut, it is common to look at the design timeframe.

Often, that is a mistake.

When transferring captured assets to the GEMS database, it’s important to remember how the database actually works and why specificity matters.

Claims for Extensions of Time occur in almost every contract and yet they are one of the least understood matters in terms of criteria for submission.

The purpose of having ‘lessons learnt’ is to provide an insight into how projects can operate more smoothly in the future. However, the process itself isn’t perfect and could stand for some improvement.