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May 26, 2022

Curtin University Guild HVAC Upgrade

Sometimes small victories are the hardest fought for and call for the greatest celebration.

Sometimes small victories are the hardest fought for and call for the greatest celebration. Recently we celebrated one of these small victories, on a small project, with a small team, but one that gave us confidence in the value of a dynamic project approach, in strong stakeholder and construction management in complex and pressing project environments, and most pertinently, in the potency of the Proven delivery team.

Continuing our strong working relationship with Curtin University, Proven took on the Project Manager/ Superintendent role in delivering a new HVAC system to the guild retail buildings on the Bentley campus. The project presented significant challenges from a project management perspective, with a critical available construction window of 5 weeks over the Christmas break, within which the project was required to run concurrently with a live internal retail fit-out. With only six weeks to tender, appoint a lead contractor and plan an expedited decant, construction and recant programme with mechanical, electrical, and building contractor input while engaging a body of busy stakeholders and meeting the expectations and strict governance requirements of the client, not to mention COVID-19 related disruptions, the pre-construction phase was executed with high pressure but a low appetite for risk.

Meeting the requirements of the university, the guild, the budget and the schedule without forgoing quality in the end product meant Proven needed to negotiate an alternative delivery methodology which included early procurement of equipment prior to executing the contract to mitigate lead time delays, revising specification after detailed design while maintaining compliance and quality, and coordinating a site ownership handover between the two projects lead contractors during the construction programme. Fostering a dynamic approach and then executing using strong construction management practices allowed Proven and the project team to deliver on schedule and within budget for the University and Guild against all the odds.

Many thanks must be given to Chris Smith of Centigrade Mechanical Contracting for his efforts and commitment over and above throughout the project, to Paul Franks of Mizco for all his electrical and BMS solutions, the team at Kwikfit for their quality building services, to Yossy Hartono at SMWC for his expertise and for accommodating and documenting changes to design on short notice, to Rob Meredith at Curtin for his professional oversight and direction throughout, and to all of the team for showing up on holidays, early mornings and late evenings to ultimately deliver a small but gratifying project victory.

For more on how the Proven Project Management team can help you deliver your project, big or small, get in contact today.

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