When organizations have a capital project and lack sufficient internal resources to efficiently manage the project, Blue Marble’s experienced construction management consultants deliver the project from concept to close out acting as the client's outsourced project executive.

The commercial risks of a single project can reduce revenue, defer other investments, consume critical resources, and impact profitability. Blue Marble has the breadth of experience and the depth of expertise to provide project executive services, whether our client is investing in a single project or managing an entire project portfolio.

From knowledge, applied experience and industry research we use ‘best practices,’ templates and tools that span the entire capital investment life cycle. By utilizing our best practice approaches for setting and managing project expectations, our clients minimize the typical project growth and improve or protect returns on investment. Meanwhile our clients can remain focused on their business and operational growth.

Our goal is to help our clients:

• Properly establish project expectations with project stakeholders, designers and contractors
• Deliver the project(s) in accordance with the business objectives
• Minimize cost and schedule delays, which are typically 20-30% for the industry

When organizations need extra assistance to efficiently manage their project(s), Blue Marble's experienced engineering and construction management consultants deliver the project from concept to close out.

We act in either an advisory capacity or directly perform the following owner scopes of work:

Project Development & Planning

Blue Marble’s consultants advise clients during the project development and planning phases. From concept to pre-execution, Blue Marble focuses on the client’s business objective and provides the following services in either a coaching or execution role:

• Capital project strategy development, including financial analyses and feasibility studies
• Site and project parameter selection
• Project scope development
• Schedule, budget and resource assessment
• Financial reporting development
• Contingency management
• Environmental compliance
• Project delivery system establishment
• Risk mitigation strategy identification

Procurement

Whether the client choses to self procure items or contract that function, Blue Marble’s consultants advise clients on procurement strategies to prevent schedule slippages and to promote procurement cost savings. Blue Marble can also prepare Request for Quotation documents and participate in vendor selection and expediting.

Execution

Setting and managing project expectations is the key to achieving a project’s business objective. Due to the dynamic nature of engineering and construction projects, cost and duration increases are frequent and can disrupt company operations and financial planning. Blue Marble’s consultants either advise or perform the following owner scopes of work to reduce inherent project risk:

• Bid preparation, review and selection
• Contract drafting, including provisions for risk sharing, change and delay notifications, change management, acceleration, and dispute resolution
• Cost, schedule and performance monitoring and validation
• Design evaluation and optimization
• Progress meeting attendance and facilitation
• Pay application/invoice review and audit
• Financial forecasting with cash flow and revenue projections
• Timely management of project change and other project disruption issues
• Assist in the resolution of design, procurement and construction issues
• Party communication management
• Safety and environmental policy enforcement

Close-out

The last major phase of a project is close-out where the facility is commissioned and occupied by the owner. Blue Marble assists in ensuring that punchlist work is completed, finalizes the project accounting, and closes out the contracts. Creating a lessons learned database that captures the success factors and unforeseen issues during the project also completes the close-out process. Owners can then utilize the lessons learned documentation to improve best practice performance on upcoming projects.

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