Construction Consultancy

Apave strictly follows the requirements and investment goals of investors, as well as clients, right from the development of the investment idea up to the project completion, including hand-over and start of operations.

Planning

• Setting up the project implementation plan in detail and in realistic terms, complying with the project scales, usability, financial and business plan of the investor.
• The implementation plan helps the investor/developer have an overview of project development from the early stages to the implementation process and the completion of the project.

Design Management

• Managing and controlling design outputs from concept stage to detailed design stage.
• Ensuring compliance with investor's requirements, construction quality, cost savings to achieve investment efficiency and compliance with current legal regulations.

Quality Management

• Establishing a system of detailed quality management procedures to ensure all factors affecting project quality are under control.
• Managing and controlling the application of Quality management procedures for the entire project.

Progress Management

• Establishing and validating the progress management procedure.
• Developing the project Master schedule, checking and approving the detailed schedule of each package.
• Managing, coordinating and proposing solutions to adapt the General progress requirement.

Management of occupational safety and environmental sanitation

• Establishing and validating occupational safety and environmental sanitation management procedures.
• Checking and approving of the Plan to ensure labour safety and environmental sanitation submitted by contractors.
• Monitoring and ensuring project participants' compliance with regulations.

Cost Management

• Establishing and validating the procedure of cost.
• Budgeting and Capital planning.
• Managing and Controlling the Cost of each package and the variant.
• Payment, settlement, audit for project.

Construction supervision is carried out regularly, continuously and systematically. Ensuring the project meets requirements in terms of Quality, Progress, accurate Quantity, labor safety and environmental sanitation.

Quality Supervision

• All the contractor's sources to be mobilized shall be checked to ensure compliance with the requirements: human resources, materials, machines, equipment... 
• All the project's works shall be checked regularly, continuously, systematically. All the faults or errors shall be required timely for correction.
• The works accepted must meet the quality requirements.

Progress Supervision

• Following up the Project master schedule, detailed schedule of every package, regularly evaluating actual progress: daily, weekly, monthly.
• Strictly controlling the contractors’ resources to ensure the progress is met.
• Proposing solutions to shorten the timeline of each package and whole project.

Quantity Supervision

• Verification and confirmation of the quantity of completed works in a timely and accurate manner complying with the actual construction.
• Verification of all quantity documents for payment and settlement - checking for accuracy according to detailed workload and in accordance with contract stipulation.

Supervision of labor safety and environmental sanitation

• Establishing, checking and approving the plan to ensure labor safety for every work on site.
• Identifying specific high-risk jobs for special attention.
• Strictly supervising the implementation of a plan to ensure labour safety on site.

Helping design documents, project cost estimation more precisely, ensuring load-bearing capacity, suitable with the expected uses, cost savings, increase investment efficiency, complying with current legal regulations.

Design Review

• Checking the capacity of organizations and individuals conducting survey and construction design
• Checking the compliance with applicable standards, technical regulations, and legal regulations
• Checking the rationality of design solutions, lines and technological equipment

Estimates Review

• Checking the application of norms, construction unit prices and other cost items in the estimation
• Checking the consistency between the quantity of the estimate and the design
• Assessing reasonable construction cost to ensure savings in construction investment

Helping the Investor to select qualified and experienced contractors to carry out works with quality, progress and safety at the most reasonable cost.

Preparation

• Developing a plan to select contractors in accordance with the project schedule
• Preparing bidding documents and contract templates
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Organizing for selection

• Preparing and delivering the bidding documents, clarifying bidding information as required
• Reception of bids
• Evaluation of bids

Contract Negotiation

• Negotiating existing inconsistencies between the bidding documents and the tender documents
• Negotiating the contractor's proposals for changes or alternatives

Proposing and Awarding Contract

• Submitting the selection results for approval by the contractor
• Notification of contractor selection results according to regulations
• Finalization of Contract for signing

The technical control mission will be performed in accordance with the needs of the customer, in which, we provide reviewing, assessment, inspection, verification, visual checking and certification services with the most efficient, appropriate and advanced methodologies in order to help prevent the technical hazards (failures in construction), satisfying the client’s needs as well as the insurer (when required).

The contents of the Technical Control Missions can be: Solidity of works, Security of persons, Sound isolation, Access for the disabled, Thermal isolation, Health and Hygiene in the buildings.
The technical controller can give advice on new works, existing works as well as neighboring works... A critical examination will be carried out during the various phases of the project stages:

• - Review of design documents
• - Examination of the documents and implementation studies produced by the companies
• - On-site examination of works and equipment items
• - Review of product certificates and test reports
• - Preparation of the final report before reception
• - Review of the work during the period of perfect completion

It's very useful and necessary for the customer who pretends to invest in any kind of real estate with support from our specific service - Due diligence on technical aspects. Based on our support, the customer can understand the competency & the quality of the real estate (buildings, factories etc), it will help the customer move forward with confidence in taking other necessary decisions in their investment strategy.

• - Due diligence on the historic construction contracts and due diligence on the as built plans.
• - Assessment on current quality of the ready-built-projects (RBPs)
• - Find out all the major defects
• - Assessment of potential CAPEX required to "maintain" or “upgrade” the RBPs within the next coming years’ schedule
• - Benchmarking exercise against other RBP in the same region or similar zone
• - Assessment of obsolescence compared to quality of benchmarked projects
• - Construction cost benchmarking: evaluating the current project and giving advice for the construction cost (if required)