project managementProject Scheduling and Critical Paths

  • Establishes an orderly process
  • Ensures completion by target date
  • Informs other trades for coordination
  • Allows for adjustments in event of construction delays

Preinstallation Planning

  • Structures order in the proper sequence
  • Insures clear tagging of product
  • Acquaints all participants with the “game plan.”
  • Establishes mile stones to be met.
  • Reviews routing requirements and critical dates.

Order Expediting

  • Monitors timely shipments
  • Verifies manufacturers acknowledgements for accuracy
  • Negotiates preferential scheduling with manufacturers
  • Insures delivery schedules coincide with site requirements

Site Verifications

  • Verifies critical site dimensions
  • Ascertains method of vertical transportation
  • Checks loading dock availability
  • Verifies electrical and telecommunication interfaces
  • Secures staging areas

Project Coordination

  • Verifies elevator availability and reserves time with building
  • Schedules deliveries and make reservation for loading dock use
  • Secures insurance certificates
  • Meetings with trades to insure a seamless coordination of labor
  • Keeps the client and client’s representatives informed of the progress

Labor Supervision

  • Insures proper levels of manpower staffing for the job
  • Manages the efficiency and productivity levels to coincide with the project schedules and time tables.
  • Coordinates activities between various trades
  • Monitors quality control standards and insures adherence to plans.

Punch List Resolution

  • Resolves shortages, damages and back orders
  • Checks each office and workstation for conformity to plans
  • Insures that all locks, drawers, files, chairs, lights and accessories are in good working order, ready for workstation occupancy

Disposition of Existing Obsolete Furniture

  • Evaluates the magnitude and condition of existing obsolete furniture to be disposed of.
  • Examines the possibility of selling existing furniture to liquidators or refurbishment jobbers in order to offset removal costs.
  • Coordinates manufacturers buy-back programs
  • Facilitates removal and disposal of unwanted furnishings

See Also:
• Project Management Solutions
• PM Process Overview

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