CASE STUDY 1 - residential

Multi Phase Residential Development, Northern Ireland.

• Design Team Management: Coordinating architects, structural and civil engineers, planning consultants, landscape architects, quantity surveyors, solicitors, and principal contractors.
   
• Planning & Approvals: Securing new planning permissions, discharging conditions, and engaging with utility suppliers to obtain all statutory services.
   
• Compliance & Assurance: Managing road and water bonding requirements, building warranty pre-registration, and overseeing master document control.
   
• Contract & Cost Management: Preparing contract documents to client briefs, tendering contracts, managing costs and budgets, and providing comprehensive project management.
   

• Project Oversight: Managing site commencement and holding regular meetings with the design team and principal contractors.
   
• Quality & Progress Tracking: Maintaining detailed records of work progress and ensuring compliance with client quality standards.
   
• Contract Administration: Updating contract documents, assessing monthly valuations of works, and monitoring KPIs.
   
• Programme Management: Setting key milestones, re-baselining where required, and providing consistent project management reporting.
   

• Snagging: Carrying out inspections to ensure properties meet client quality standards.
   
• Handover: Managing the process from developer to final purchaser.
   
• Adoptions & Compliance: Coordinating adoption of roads and water services, and appointing management companies for shared/common areas.
   
• Customer Care: Managing purchaser complaints and ensuring resolution to protect client reputation.

Major Quayside Development, Leith, Scotland.

Pre-Construction

• Option Agreement & Appraisal: Negotiation of option agreements, development appraisal modelling, and tendering leading to the appointment of the full design team.
   
• Planning Application (PAN): Managing the full PAN process, including preparation for public consultation, presenting to local authorities and the public, and attending local residents’ development committees.
   
• Regulatory & Financial Modelling: Incorporating legislative changes to rental properties and assessing their impact on cashflow models.
   
• Visual & Technical Studies: Commissioning verified views from critical city viewpoints to support the planning submission.
   
• Land & Title Analysis: Interpreting complex titles, restrictive covenants, and neighbouring development constraints to determine the exact developable area, and clearly reporting findings to the client.
   

• Site Investigations: Coordinating boreholes, trial pits, and laboratory analysis to establish ground conditions.

• Specialist Investigations: Conducting quay wall studies in partnership with the local port authority.
   
• Environmental & Safety Management: Implementing strict protocols for the control and disposal of any hazardous materials.
   
• Site Coordination: Overseeing investigations while accommodating a short-term tenant using the land for temporary storage, car parking, and staff welfare facilities.

Main Distributor Road, Residential Development, Northern Ireland.

• Securing planning permission for an amendment to the road layout of a main distributor road.
   
• Preparing all planning documents for submission and responding to case officer and statutory body queries.
   
• Developing guidance and information packs in advance of the planning committee.
   
• Working with the project team to prepare key messaging for the planning committee and attending the committee as required.
   
• Managing planning conditions, including preparation and discharge of requirements.
   
• Progressing road abandonment procedures where applicable.
   
• Facilitating public engagement and liaising with statutory bodies, including the Department of Infrastructure.
   
• Reporting regularly to the client team on progress and outcomes.

Shore Street Presbyterian Church, Donaghadee, Northern Ireland

• Collaborative Briefing: Work methodically with church members to establish a clear project brief.
   
• Investigations & Reporting: Commission condition surveys and reports to underpin cost profiling and inform decision-making.
   
• Development Guidance: Support the church through all stages of property development within its governance structure.
   
• Feasibility & Funding: Explore project feasibility and funding options.
   
• Planning & Construction Management: Navigate planning, legal, design, and construction processes.
   
• Ongoing Communication: Maintain regular communication to keep the church informed throughout the project, including delivering presentations to the wider congregation.

Retail and Office, Belfast City Centre, Northern Ireland

• Brief: Work with Owner to create improved Asset Value via new lettings, regearing and Cap Ex programmes to improve letting profile (WAULT) and ultimately rental income stream.
   
• Value Creation: measured performance of progress via periodic reporting on gross and net rental income, arrears levels, ongoing assessment of tenant covenant strength, and how these all impact current values and future targeted values.
   
• Risk & Disposal: Developing risk management plans and implementing disposal strategies when the asset reached an optimal value level.