- Business cases and feasibility development
- Programme management
- Project governance
- Stakeholder mapping and engagement
- Project scope and client brief development
- Design management
- Contract development and administration
- Engineer to Contract / Independent Certifier
- Consultant and Contractor procurement
- Project delivery
- Project reporting
- Project closeout and handover
- Tenancy coordination
Our team is skilled in the project's whole-of-life, from business case to construction delivery and beyond.
Current market conditions, evolving procurement methods, and unique requirements are placing greater emphasis on the need for agile, multi-skilled managers, and cost control professionals on projects, rather than traditional reactive management and cost reporting. To meet this need, we provide a flexible, innovative, and highly professional service with a bench of qualified Project and Cost Managers able to deliver a truly bespoke approach to achieve project objectives.
BUSINESS CASES AND FEASIBILITY DEVELOPMENT
WT’s project management team support clients in developing and refining their vision into a business case, development plans, and actionable strategy.
Our project managers play a critical role in this process by providing expert advice on feasibility, cost analysis, risk management, and ensuring alignment with long-term business objectives. They collaborate closely with stakeholders to gather and present the necessary data, helping to define key project benefits, scope, and financial considerations. By streamlining the process and identifying potential challenges early on, they ensure the business case is robust, realistic, and ready for approval.
EXAMPLE ANSWER Our client’s objectives are at the forefront of each project we engage in.
WT utilise advanced data technology for efficient asset data collection and reporting for all our projects, from airports to Government buildings, to universities, to hospitals.
Our advisory team have a strong track record of success across a diverse range of sectors. Our team customise the Fulcrum app to suit the needs of each client we work with. Customising Fulcrum for each client enables efficient labour time and reduced disruption on site. We work with you to ensure that we are capturing all assets you would like and from there can work with you to create a plan to maintain them in a way that meets each project’s unique objectives.
WT’s asset data collection technology means our team can capture accurate data swiftly, even in remote areas with restricted connectivity, to produce a detailed asset register. Asset registers are pivotal for asset planning, funding, and tax depreciation.
At WT, we excel in compiling comprehensive asset registers, tailored to varying needs from basic to highly detailed objectives, complete with granular data and even QR code barcoding where necessary. Additionally, the accurate asset categorisation feature in the technology we use allows for software integration capabilities to build our clients comprehensive, user-friendly, and robust reports and interactive dashboards if desired.
We have taken many organisations through the process of designing a more compelling asset management future, including organisations in Central Government using the All of Government Facilities Management Panel.
WT create interactive data dashboards tailored to your specific asset planning needs. These include key performance indicators (KPIs), trends, and data visualisations to facilitate decision-making. Our team can support you in conducting scenario analysis and simulate different maintenance strategies or investment scenarios.
▪ We can help you to take a long-term approach for strategy, cost, and sustainability by assessing the effective life cycle of assets.
▪ We enable you to track metrics such as maintenance costs, asset condition, and compliance status.
▪ We can advise you on how to ensure that contractual obligations are met, and the asset is returned with minimal liabilities, ready for future commercial use.
▪ We identify and assess potential risks associated with building assets. We can support you in implementing mitigation strategies to minimise and avoid disruption and losses.
▪ Our scenario analysis allows all stakeholders to identify cost-effective maintenance strategies, investment opportunities, and resource allocation priorities.
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PROGRAMME MANAGEMENT
Our team have extensive experience collaborating with large private enterprises, Government bodies, and local councils, ensuring cost-effective and timely delivery across a spectrum of projects. With a national reach across Aotearoa New Zealand, we proficiently coordinate and oversee numerous assets, facilitating the execution of rollout programmes encompassing seismic strengthening, compliance upgrades, rebranding, fit-outs, capital expenditure programmes, and various other initiatives unique to the project.
Our wealth of project experience and established national networks guarantee consistency in quality and delivery. A benefit of appointing WT as your project management team, is that we have in-house access to quantity surveyors who adeptly manage programme budgets while ensuring cost efficiency at individual sites. Moreover, Clients benefit from real-time updates accessible through our cloud-based dashboard reporting.
Upfront embodied carbon cost management covers Cradle to Practical Completion*:
▪ Product Stage – A1 Raw Material Supply, A2 Transport, A3 Manufacturing
▪ Construction Stage – A4 Transport, A5 Construction & Installation Process
We help you identify carbon and cost ‘hotspots’ by providing upfront carbon calculations with associated costs.
We then offer a unique carbon value engineering assessment (C02VE) to identify areas where alternative option discussions can take place, including alternative designs, materials, products, and construction methods (in collaboration with design teams) to achieve your sustainability or cost goals. Our multi-scenario design assessments allow for data-driven design decisions, making it easier for you to make informed choices and achieve sustainability goals.
*in accordance with BS EN15978
Capital Renewals covers Practical Completion to Cradle*:
▪ Use Stage – B1 Building Use, B2 Maintenance, B3 Repair, B4 Refurbishment, B5 Replacement
▪ End of Life Stage – C1 Deconstruction & Demolition, C2 Transport, C3 Waste Processing, C4 Disposal
▪ Beyond Life Stage – D Reuse, Recovery, Recycling
With our Capital Renewals analysis, we can identify carbon and cost ‘hotspots’. This approach enables data-driven asset management and planning to help you make informed decisions about the future of your building assets.
Using comprehensive asset data, we provide a carbon value engineering assessment (C02VE) to advise on alternative refurbishment and replacement strategies. Our expertise extends beyond use and maintenance, as we identify opportunities for reuse, recovery, and recycling throughout the deconstruction and demolition of assets.
*in accordance with BS EN15978
▪ End-to-end lifecycle coverage meaning that your project has been assessed holistically, ensuring that both the upfront embodied carbon and ongoing operational carbon considerations are addressed.
▪ WT can help you to reduce carbon emissions and energy consumption, offering energy-efficient measures may also lead to significant cost savings in the form of lower utility bills and other operational expenses (OPEX).
▪ You will ensure that alternative materials, products, and construction methods during the product and construction stages have been considered for sustainability benefits.
▪ WT help you to achieve compliance with industry sustainability standards and regulations, such as BS EN 15978, regarding carbon management and lifecycle assessment.
▪ An understanding of your project’s sustainability can support you in societal benefit calculations and putting forward a business case to stakeholders and potential investors.
For any questions please get in touch with our Advisor and Sustainability Lead, Michael Philipsen, at michael.philipsen@wtpartnership.co.nz
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PROJECT GOVERNANCE
Have you ever heard people talking about a project that’s in complete chaos, whilst the term ‘governance’ seems to be overused? Without proper governance a project can quickly descend into chaos resulting in unquantifiable cost overruns.
Our experienced project managers don’t overcomplicate governance, but we will make sure the project starts with critical structures in place, such as a project organisational chart, clear lines of communication, confirmed levels of delegated authority, the project team roles and responsibilities, and importantly clarifying what is ‘out of scope’.
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▪ Considering operational needs and requirements early ensures the final project design functionally meets the needs of the facility and incorporates efficient operations from the outset, avoiding future expensive modifications or disruptions.
▪ Early inclusion allows all stakeholders to make informed decisions regarding materials, systems, and technologies that can minimise long-term operating costs and enhance the project’s sustainability.
▪ Advisors reduce risk as they ensure that design decisions have been thought about holistically with the client’s core objectives at the forefront, alongside cost, functionality, and sustainability.
▪ Facilities management advisors ensure the design complies with relevant regulations and standards.
▪ Having WT advisors present in early project stages allows for technology and automated dashboards to be set up to allow for operational monitoring and efficiencies to be made.
We want you to avoid the risk of a gap between predicted and achieved performance on your project. Often, there is a disconnect between briefing, design, and construction phases, and as a result operational performance is negatively impacted.
Enter 'soft landings' – a strategic approach aimed at smoothing the transition from construction to operational use, maximising building performance, and user satisfaction.
Our approach begins with early stakeholder engagement, involving designers, contractors, and end-users from the outset to ensure the project aligns with their needs and expectations. During the design and construction phases, we maintain a strong focus on performance, ensuring quality control and adherence to design standards for optimal building efficiency.
We facilitate a smooth handover, and our approach ensures that staff are well-prepared to manage the facilities.
Once the building is occupied, our team can work with you on continuous improvement through conducting post-occupancy evaluations to monitor performance and gather feedback from occupants. This allows us to scope out and recommend any necessary adjustments to continuously optimise the building’s performance.
WT’s Advisory Team utilise powerful business intelligence software to gain a comprehensive understanding of your project’s operations. Our software aggregates multiple data sources so that all facilities and asset information can be presented in one place. From there, we create data visualisations as part of a digital dashboard, customised to your project and set up to be user-friendly for all stakeholders to appreciate and understand the operational management aspects of the project.
We can help you to identify and resolve maintenance issues quickly, before they become costly and disruptive. We do this by setting up a user-friendly and automated system that monitors facilities and assets in real-time. If there is a potential issue arising, or apart that may need replacing, the system will notify you before it escalates into a critical issue. You will have the ability to check on the health of any asset remotely by logging on to the system, or in person by scanning a QR code on the asset. We develop comprehensive planned preventative maintenance schedules for all assets which can be utilised for facilities procurement and feed into the financial building operating model.
This is your key to effective facility management to prevent operational downtime.
The Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) is conceptually straightforward in that it is the estimated total costs of goods, services, or construction works over the whole of their life. However, in the context of physical building assets and/or infrastructure, it can present significant challenges to arrive at accurate estimates given the scale and complexity of the initial build, as well as the complexity of operations, maintenance, and servicing over the asset’s service life.
We leverage the extensive experience and expertise of our cost management and quantity surveying practitioners within the WT New Zealand team to fully understand the initial build cost, which we then couple with our asset and facility management data to develop robust whole of life cost models. These cost models allow our clients to make both initial and ongoing investment decisions based on accurate data and figures.
We have a strong track record in executing comprehensive end-to-end procurements for complex building projects. Our team have developed best-in-class methodologies and templates that consistently drive successful outcomes.
WT’s range of sourcing and procurement services includes:
▪ Procurement Strategy: Crafting tailored procurement strategies that align with your organisational goals and deliver optimal value.
▪ Category Analysis: Conducting in-depth analysis to understand market trends, supplier landscapes, and cost-saving opportunities within specific procurement categories.
▪ Full RFx Documentation: Developing comprehensive Request for Information (RFI),Request for Proposal (RFP), and Request for Quotation (RFQ) documents thatclearly outline project requirements and expectations.
▪ Scope Development: Defining detailed project scopes to ensure all deliverables and performance criteria are clearly articulated and understood.
▪ Evaluation Frameworks: Creating robust evaluation frameworks to assess supplier proposals against predefined criteria, ensuring a fair and transparent selection process.
▪ Evaluation and Moderation: Facilitating thorough evaluation and moderation sessions to objectively review and score supplier submissions, driving informed decision-making.
▪ Procurement Reporting: WT offer detailed procurement reports that give insights into the procurement process, supplier performance, and key metrics for stakeholders.
▪ Implementation and Transition: We support the implementation and transition of procurement projects, ensuring that new suppliers and processes are integrated smoothly and effectively.
WT comprehensively review and evaluate the performance of existing suppliers’ customer service, operational delivery, financial management, and adherence to contract conditions.
Our detailed review includes a gap analysis between the client, service provider, and contract. Importantly, WT provide targeted performance recommendations to bridge any identified gaps.
Our team are aware that organisations and stakeholders scrutinise the contribution of facilities management in relation to the project’s overall success, therefore it is crucial to understand how these services are delivered and whether they meet expectations. Our team conducts systematic, objective audits to assess FM processes and resources, comparing them to both client expectations and industry benchmarks. This audit provides a clear understanding of current operations and identifies opportunities to address deficiencies or enhance efficiency, ensuring that your facilities management contributes effectively to your project's success.
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STAKEHOLDER MAPPING AND ENGAGEMENT
Our team spend time in the initial stages of a project to understand all key stakeholders’ interests and investment. This approach mitigates potential future delays, tensions, and costs.
WT understand that every project has a diverse range of stakeholders, each with their individual interests and investments. From environmental agencies and silent investors to funders and insurers, iwi, tenants, neighbours, and asset owners, each bringing their perspective and individual value to the table.
Our team believe that understanding and navigating this intricate network is not just a requirement but essential to project success. Embracing this diversity, we approach each interaction with care and consideration, whether it's consulting with indigenous communities, addressing tenant concerns, or collaborating with asset owners.
We appreciate the nuances of stakeholder engagement; it's about fostering connections, building trust, and finding common ground to ultimately achieve project success.
▪ Procurement Strategy: Crafting tailored procurement strategies that align with your organisational goals and deliver optimal value.
▪ Category Analysis: Conducting in-depth analysis to understand market trends, supplier landscapes, and cost-saving opportunities within specific procurement categories.
▪ Full RFx Documentation: Developing comprehensive Request for Information (RFI),Request for Proposal (RFP), and Request for Quotation (RFQ) documents thatclearly outline project requirements and expectations.
▪ Scope Development: Defining detailed project scopes to ensure all deliverables and performance criteria are clearly articulated and understood.
▪ Evaluation Frameworks: Creating robust evaluation frameworks to assess supplier proposals against predefined criteria, ensuring a fair and transparent selection process.
▪ Evaluation and Moderation: Facilitating thorough evaluation and moderation sessions to objectively review and score supplier submissions, driving informed decision-making.
▪ Procurement Reporting: WT offer detailed procurement reports that give insights into the procurement process, supplier performance, and key metrics for stakeholders.
▪ Implementation and Transition: We support the implementation and transition of procurement projects, ensuring that new suppliers and processes are integrated smoothly and effectively.
Our Long Term Maintenance Plans (LTMPs) offer Body Corporate members increased certainty and clarity regarding future costs as well as ensuring compliance with the UTA 2010.
LTMPs also help mitigate the potential impacts of unplanned maintenance expenses on Body Corporate members. Leveraging our team's extensive expertise and industry best practices, we develop detailed LTMPs tailored to the specific needs of Body Corporates.
Our LTMPs are presented in a clear and user-friendly format via our portal, ensuring accessibility and ease of use. Moreover, WT’s plans can be seamlessly adapted to align with your Body Corporate's funding models and we provide expert advice on the implications of various maintenance and funding scenarios, empowering committees to effectively communicate options to their members.
It is no secret that Body Corporates are responsible for the management of a wide range of assets. To ensure assets meet legislative compliance obligations, are reliable, and lifecycle costs are minimised, their maintenance requirements need to be well understood. Our advisors all come from operational roles in facilities and asset management and have deep and holistic knowledge of property maintenance, asset life cycles, and compliance requirements.
Whether you are in a newbuilding and require preventative maintenance schedules to be set up to ensure warranty obligations are being met, or you are an established Body Corporate that wants to ensure you are maintaining your assets correctly, we are able to complete a detailed assessment of your building's maintenance requirements, setup comprehensive maintenance schedules, and compare these against current service arrangements.
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PROJECT SCOPE AND CLIENT BRIEF DEVELOPMENT
This is a critical phase of every project that is often not given the attention it requires. Based on past successes, we ensure sufficient time is allocated to clearly identifying the needs and scope of the project and obtain approval from all identified key stakeholders before moving into design. Working with the initial project team, this phase is specifically tailored for each project and presented in a non-construction format so that key messages and the project intent are understood. This avoids client-driven variations during the construction phase due to lack of understanding when changes are much more costly to make.
During this initial phase, our experienced project managers will work with you and your team to establish the project governance structure, the project execution plan and the most effective delivery solution to meet your business goal, whether this is a short sharp delivery or a more complex longer phased delivery to meet cashflow requirements.
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DESIGN MANAGEMENT
We understand design management is about helping balance creative design and practical decision-making aligning with constraints such as complex legislation, budget constraints, timelines and safety. Whilst WT’s project management team provide a robust process and structure, we believe inspiration, flair and creativity happen when the team also has flexibility to communicate freely to focus on quality design and the project’s needs.
Your dedicated project manager has the knowledge and contacts to procure and appoint a lead designer or architect, who then develops and coordinates a collaborative design team to deliver a design based on a robust design brief. Our project managers act as the primary point of contact for the client during the design phase. They facilitate communication between the client and the design team, ensuring that the client's needs, preferences, and feedback are effectively conveyed and addressed.
Our project managers act as quality control, cost control, and risk mitigation during the design phase as well as overseeing the quality of the design work, ensuring that it meets the project's specifications, regulatory requirements and standards, and client’s expectations so there are no surprises later in the project life cycle.
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CONTRACT DEVELOPMENT AND ADMINISTRATION
We are experienced in developing bespoke contracts for consultants, main contractors and facilities management engagement. Before commencing contract development, each project, no matter how small, starts with a procurement plan to ensure scope, size, resource availability, location and many other influencing factors are considered. We also specialise in identifying shortfalls and potential risks of contracts that can avoid costly variations. We have a proven track record of delivering end-to-end procurements in complex environments aligning with both private commercial procurement strategy and the NZ Government Rules of Sourcing.
The team assesses each programme of work or project requirement to establish a tailored procurement plan that is achieved by using best-in-class methodologies and templates, that are developed in-house, to drive positive outcomes.
Our services include:
▪ Procurement strategy
▪ Category analysis
▪ Full RFx documentation
▪ Scope development
▪ Evaluation frameworks
▪ Evaluation and moderation
▪ Procurement reporting
▪ Implementation and transition
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ENGINEER TO CONTRACT / INDEPENDENT CERTIFIER
WT are experienced in developing bespoke contracts for consultants, main contractors and facilities management engagement. Before commencing contract development, each project, no matter how small, starts with a procurement management plan to ensure scope, size, resource availability, location and other influencing factors are considered.
Our project management team also specialise in identifying shortfalls and potential risks of contracts that can avoid costly variations.
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CONSULTANT AND CONTRACTOR PROCUREMENT
WT is a globally leading independent consultancy, operating in New Zealand since 2001, with a proven track record of delivering end-to-end procurements in unique and complex environments. The team assesses each program of works or project requirements to establish a tailored procurement plan which is then delivered by industry best practice methodologies and templates to drive successful outcomes and achieve project objectives.
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PROJECT DELIVERY
Our team of project managers are experienced at delivering various construction projects in a range of environments such as new build developments (either Green or Brown Field), refurbishment of existing, live and tenanted environments, busy public inner-city projects to regional and provincial New Zealand.
To provide our clients with peace of mind, each project is led by a project director with increased support during complex stages of the project or to develop strategic delivery models such as staged handover, mitigate business interruption etc. Our project managers will drive the project, consultants and the contractor to ensure that project safety, quality, programme, and budget are adhered to. Through robust document control, our formal reports will provide the client accurate project status updates and highlight any early project risks that can be addressed, avoiding unnecessary surprises.
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PROJECT REPORTING
Reports are an important part of every project as they provide an important ‘snapshot’ of the project status and health.
We understand that time is precious, therefore our reports are relevant and succinct. Our project reports focus on key actions or approvals for that period to support the project moving forward.
Each report is bespoke and caters to a wide range of recipients and stakeholder requirements, including being online in a ‘dashboard’ format.
For executive-level meetings, our reports are developed and presented by our Project Directors to ensure critical aspects of the project such as contractual, commercial and financial matters can be robustly discussed without the need to defer and seek feedback from other consultants, such as the Quantity Surveyor.
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PROJECT CLOSEOUT AND HANDOVER
The handover of any new asset is arguably the most important part of any project, yet it's consistently done poorly.
As early as the pre-construction phase, our Project Managers are planning for a ‘soft-landing’ handover to the owner through the development of our tried and tested Special Conditions of Contract as a pre-requisite for Practical Completion (PC), a project-specific clearly defined schedule of relevant warranties, guarantees and producer statements and a requirement for the Main Contractor to commit to and deliver a well-planned commissioning period and development of As Builts and O&M’s.
Addressing defects during the Defects Liability Period (DLP) is an unwelcome distraction to the new building users, therefore where possible our team works towards a ZERO defect PC, particularly for challenging live environments. If a zero defect isn’t achievable, our proactive team will continue to support the property manager to address defects promptly as they arise.
Final account is a significant and important milestone which is often left to the QS to navigate. Given the knowledge the project managers have at PC, we ensure that our team continues to work with the Contractor, Client and the Quantity Surveyor to resolve all outstanding variations to expedite the resolution of final account.
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TENANCY COORDINATION
WT can be engaged by either the Tenant or the Owner. Our project management team navigate and thoroughly understand lease obligations paired with our efficient fit-out design and delivery process means that a high-quality space is delivered that meets, or exceeds, the stakeholders’ vision.
Our team has extensive experience as appointed project managers for delivering the base build of projects. We've successfully executed a diverse array of integrated fit-outs, collaborating closely with building owners and main contractors to seamlessly coordinate fit-outs with the base build. This approach mitigates abortive costs and potential delays, ensuring a smooth and efficient project delivery process.
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