uncategorized – Rational Move Management Consultancy

Schedule Evaluation

admin — Sun, 20 May 2018 04:07:55 +0000

A properly planned and realistic construction schedule can facilitate timely, coordinated, and efficient project execution and provide a means to identify potential issues impacting project completion and profitability. Rational Move assists contractors, owners, and construction managers with various schedule-related services including:

Contract Scheduling Specification Preparation
Baseline Schedule Review and Contract Compliance Evaluation
Contemporaneous Delay Analysis and Quantification
Recovery Schedule Evaluation

CPM Schedule Delay Analysis

admin — Sat, 19 May 2018 11:25:05 +0000

With the technology advancements and complex business relationships characteristic of the modern construction industry, construction scheduling has become increasingly more important. Rational Move provides a variety of expert services to assist our clients with all facets of scheduling and project management. From the planning and implementation of critical path method (CPM) scheduling to forensic schedule delay analysis and damage quantification, Interface Consulting’s experts have the experience and knowledge to respond to clients’ needs.

Management Consulting

admin — Tue, 24 Jan 2017 04:21:01 +0000

For more than 10 years, Clients, Contractors involved in different industries continue to engage Rational Move to improve their operations through the development and implementation of innovative yet practical solutions that address complex technical, organizational, and managerial problems.

Our goal is to provide tangible bottom-line value designed to meet our clients’ objectives.

Our management consulting teams provide the quality consulting services today’s companies demand, including due diligence, feasibility studies, and turnaround management. Rational Move customizes project teams with an effective combination of technical skills, management experience, construction expertise, and insight according to each client’s requirements. We offer alternative points of view, tempered with the understanding that solutions must easily integrate into a company’s specific culture. Rational Move provides our clients with the opportunity to strengthen their competitive position through leading-edge risk management and business development programs.

Our management consulting services are integral to enhancing our clients’ success in their varied business challenges.

Market Research
Risk Management
Market and Business Development
Feasibility Studies
Due Diligence
Strategic Planning
Reorganization
Mergers and Acquisitions
Strategic Alliances
Operations Evaluation
Productivity Studies
Turnaround Management
Policies and Procedures Evaluation
Industry Trend Studies and Analyses
Business Strategy Development
Business Growth

Project Management

admin — Tue, 24 Jan 2017 04:20:21 +0000

Delivering project success through effective planning, the right team and rigorous controls.

Creating the right delivery strategy for a project depends on a detailed preparation stage during which business requirements, risks, constraints and stakeholder interests are fully understood. Robust controls maintained throughout the life of the project will ensure challenges are effectively addressed to meet your time, cost and quality objectives.

In Rational Move, our project management approach reduces risk and helps clients deliver projects in a consistent and improved manner, no matter what stage of the project lifecycle we are appointed in.

We put client interests first, ensuring we help deliver the outcomes that matter to you. It’s the formula that has helped us successfully deliver some of the industry’s most complex projects in UAE.

Change Management

admin — Tue, 24 Jan 2017 04:19:38 +0000

Create a Winning Program by Focusing on the Factors That Matter

The pace of business is accelerating, and companies must change in response. Yet 50-75% of change programs fail. Companies that implement change effectively give themselves a significant competitive edge by focusing on the factors that are essential to success: ensuring Executional Certainty; establishing effective sponsorship, governance, and a program management office (PMO); enabling the extended leadership team; and engaging the broader organization.

Therefore, we Rational Move create a Winning Program by focusing on the Factors that matter.

Cost and Commercial Management

admin — Tue, 24 Jan 2017 04:18:57 +0000

Driving and safeguarding your commercial interests from start to finish.

Predictability and control of costs are essential principles for all organisations when planning and undertaking capital projects or programmes.

We Rational Move, our approach to cost and commercial management is driven by a real commitment to maximising return on investment for our clients.

We provide you with outcome confidence from day one, helping to establish project viability with a clear, robust baseline.

We optimise cost performance at every stage through our proven methodologies, cost models, cost data, and assurance approach, and with our breadth of market intelligence we secure best-buy in the market.

We will own your commercial agenda – driving to achieve cost and value targets every step of the way and managing threats and changes pro-actively.

Our commercial heritage means we make sure you achieve real value, and with no links to the rest of the supply chain we can provide truly independent advice, delivering the right solutions to protect your interests.

Construction Claims & Disputes

admin — Tue, 24 Jan 2017 04:13:11 +0000

Rational Move offers a highly-specialized team of forensic construction experts to serve you in all aspects of construction management, construction claims, construction accidents and construction dispute resolution.

We, Rational Move assists clients with preparing and analyzing construction claims. Owners and contractors who realize the potential for construction disputes and conflicts rely on the firm’s construction claims consultants who are experienced construction managers and engineers.

The firm’s construction claims consultants possess unique skill sets that enable us to prepare and analyze claim issues promoting timely resolution. Clients depend on our specialized knowledge and expertise of construction claims to efficiently and cost effectively produce persuasive position statements for favorable and informed settlements.

Our team of construction experts can assist with numerous construction claims including the following:

Construction Delay Claims
Labor Productivity Claims
Design and Construction Defect Claims
Force Majeure Claims
Acceleration Claims
Suspension and Termination Claims
Differing Site Conditions Claims
Change Claims

Schedule Delay Claims and Expert Analysis

admin — Tue, 24 Jan 2017 04:11:48 +0000

Construction delay claims are perhaps the most common and misunderstood disputes in the construction industry. Our scheduling experts have advanced hands-on knowledge of CPM schedule analysis and extensive practical experience in the contract claims environment involving delay, disruption, and acceleration issues. We frequently assist clients with schedule analysis and quantification of actual and liquidated damages related to delays, disruptions, and acceleration.

We, Rational Move provides contemporaneous and forward-looking CPM schedule analysis to facilitate the early resolution of schedule-related changes as well as forensic delay analysis for the preparation of affirmative and defense delay claims.

Our scheduling experts specialize in CPM schedule analysis by means of the following industry-recognized methodologies:

Windows Analysis or Contemporaneous Period Analysis
Time Impact Analysis (TIA)
Collapsed As-Built
Impacted As-Planned
As-Planned vs. As-Built

It should be noted that the selection of a particular schedule analysis methodology depends on the project facts, the nature of the events being analyzed, the nature and extent of available as-built information, and the available progress data, and may vary from project to project. Each of the above-referenced schedule analysis methodologies has inherent advantages and disadvantages. Rational Move has extensive experience handling construction delay claims and our construction claims consultants are skilled at tailoring our schedule analysis approach to suit a project’s needs and constraints.

Construction Risk Analysis & Management

admin — Tue, 24 Jan 2017 04:01:35 +0000

More foresight, fewer setbacks. You can identify, prevent and mitigate potential costly delays and disruptions before breaking ground or during project execution with Rational Move’s risk management services. Our construction experts understand the changing engineering and construction industries and draw upon years of experience to provide cost-effective solutions that work. We’ll be there throughout the construction process, helping you to make informed decisions and keep your project moving forward.

Rational Move provides construction and engineering risk management by identifying and analyzing potential risks that may occur throughout the construction process. Rational Move construction management team performs risk assessments on construction projects to assist our clients in preventing and mitigating costly potential delays and disruptions.

As the complexity of construction and engineering projects changes, the magnitude of risk involved for owners, contractors, architects, and engineers increases the possibility of negative impacts and damages on projects. Rational Move recognizes this potential. Our construction risk management consultants adapt to the continuously changing engineering and construction industries while maintaining proven practices and procedures throughout the construction process.

Our Construction Risk Management Services

Risk Identification
Probability Assessments
Constructability Review
Multi-variable Regression Analysis
Sensitivity Analysis
Modeling Risk Profiles
Risk Monitoring
Schedule Forecasting
Cost Forecasting
Delays & Disruptions
Decision Risk Analysis

Construction Management

admin — Tue, 24 Jan 2017 03:52:11 +0000

We, Rational Move provides expert advisory services to its clients to improve management and administrative processes and contract administration. From both the job site and the home office, our construction management experts provide our clients with cost-effective solutions to problems that hinder the success of construction projects.

Our services are geared toward resolving the challenges our clients face in today’s increasingly complex construction industry. Using proven techniques and expertise to develop customized recovery programs, the firm’s experts work with our clients to turn around troubled projects. Whether enhancing project management or infusing highly trained and experienced specialists when necessary, we help clients successfully master the most difficult of challenges.

Clients retain our Rational Move’s construction management experts to assist in the following work disciplines:

Project Planning & Scheduling
Project Risk Management
Estimating
Proposal Preparation
Procurement Improvement
Constructability Analysis
Contract Evaluation
Value Engineering
Project Management Procedures Development
Quality Assurance
Change Order Preparation and Analysis
Project Administration
Claims Management