Services
Construction Management Consulting
Team Builder Solutions (TBS) is a dedicated group of industry experts that make up the Construction Management Team, with the experience to achieve successful project outcomes from pre-construction to close-out. We are at the forefront of project delivery, with Advanced Work Packaging (AWP) and Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) as cornerstones to our process.
- Construction Management Process Development
- Feasibility Studies
- Project Set Up
- Construction Management Services
- Best Practice Training
The Construction Industry is competitive, fast paced, and always evolving. TBS has extensive experience in both large and small Cap-Ex (Facility Project Portfolios) projects. While no two constructions projects are the same, the responsibilities within these projects require consistency and rigour on the behalf of the Construction Manager (CM).
Construction contracts form the basis of the relationship between parties. TBS provides a full scope review of all contracts to ensure execution of the project is held to the standard of the contract put forth.
- Complete a methodical review and analysis of contract terms
The work of a CM requires an organized, reflective, and consistent plan for how the scope of work will be performed. Keys to success involve;
- Defined verbal and non-verbal communication processes
- Cross functional teams comprised of Owner, Engineering, Procurement, and Construction
- Roles and responsibilities clearly assigned to each team
- Access to previous projects regarding standard processes and procedures, with the knowledge and ability to implement revisions that are tailored to the current project
It is imperative to have a properly planned and pragmatic construction schedule.
- Timely, co-ordinated and efficient
- Identification of potential issues that may impact project completion and/or profitability
- Ongoing consistent management and updates to scheduling
- Harness Best Practices to ensure schedule and planning process meet project objectives
Team Builder Solution’s early engagement with each project defines delivery methods that work for the clients’ specific needs. Comprehensive feasibility studies assist us in identifying the right method for projects of varying degrees of complexity. Advanced Work Packaging (AWP) brings transparency and accountability to complex projects, and the addition of software can put clients back in charge of their investments. TBS has exclusively partnered with select software platforms to add value certainty to the project execution process.
To ensure seamless adoption of AWP Best Practices, TBS develops a client specific AWP program complete with:
- AWP Procedures
- Process Flow Development
- Work Package Formats
- RASCI Charts
- KPI’s
- Constraints
- Training and Mentoring of all Stake-holders
- AWP Program Management
- SME Deployment to project sites
Field Progress management is typically implemented in larger projects, however TBS does this on every project, large or small. It is a large undertaking that involves a collaborative effort from all construction disciplines.
- It is critical to review progress to-date in order to forecast remaining work and schedule needs
- Contract reporting requirements must be taken into consideration
- All reporting platforms must be integrated within the client project management framework
Reliable reporting of the right data can provide insight into key project indicators and help identify diversions from the project’s initial plan. Basic project controls reporting includes measurements such as;
- Contract profitability
- Installed quantities
- Labour hours
- Productivity and schedule performance
- Constraints management
- RFI & change status management
Most construction projects experience varying degrees of change, typically in the work scope. There are some key factors to maintaining success;
- The ability to identify, analyze, and document any change during a project’s lifecycle
- A successful CM should reflect and implement:
- What is the status of the project now?
- What can we forecast our status to be in the future?
Construction Dispute Consultants
Support for Law Firms and Claims Companies in the US and Canada.
Team Builder Solutions (TBS) has a dedicated group of industry experts that make up the Construction Dispute Consulting Team. We understand that disputes are costly and time consuming. The TBS team provides expertise in a concise and objective manner to great advantage for our clients in the resolution process. TBS’s support services through every phase of adjudication and litigation bring an objective and balanced resource to your dispute, from analysis to opinion development to expert witnesses testimony.
Our investigations are;
- Comprehensive and exhaustive
- Objectively based to distinguish truth from allegation
- Built on detailed review by highly experienced management and field execution specialists
- Focused on dispute resolution
Our team of construction execution experts are well versed on current methodologies, processes, and materials associated with many facets and types of constructions projects. This results in our ability to provide expert consultation, expert witness reports, preparation of expert opinions as well as testimony on aspects of construction including but not limited to:
- Technical review
- Accident investigation
- Bonds and insurance
- Building code compliance
- Building process
- Change directives
- Contract administration
- Contracts
- Construction defects, liens
- Cost estimates
- Construction management
- Construction safety
As construction execution experts we have extensive knowledge and expertise of the construction industry. Project experience includes Industrial, Institutional, Infrastructure, and Commercial. As Construction Dispute Consultants we provide consultation to Law Firms and Claims Companies on varying issues that include but may not be limited to:
- Discovery Support
- Risk Assessment
- Claims review
- Standard of Care
- Site & Execution Performance
- Building delays
- codes and compliance
- construction costs
- construction deficits
- building processes
- Construction contracts
- Financing
- Bonds and insurance
- Construction Management
- Licensing
- Regulatory compliance and government permits
- Impacts : Productivity, Schedule, Engineering, Procurement, Change Management, Site conditions, Safety
Construction claims can result in cost overruns, time delays, and construction defects.
The ability to quantify damages associated with construction claims is an assiduous effort due to the varying roles and aspects within the construction project itself. Our Construction Dispute Consultants are experts in providing some of the following but not limited to:
- Damage cause and effect
- Direct damages that involve (labour, material, equipment, subcontract)
- Extended project costs (general conditions, general requirements)
- Expanded project costs
- Labour productivity loss, disruption
- Cost escalation
Subject Matter Experts
A subject matter expert (SME) provides knowledge and expertise in a specific subject, technical area, or business area in a project/program.They are typically found among those who have been in their roles for a long enough period of time for their knowledge and skills to be “second nature”. An SME should know their job well enough that they rarely have to look up information and, if they do have to, they know exactly where to find the information.
- Define procedures or standards, since they have the knowledge of the right or best way to execute a task
- Define performance objectives, and determine acceptable performance levels
- Provide recommendations for procedural improvements
- Understand the language, terms, or jargon in their area of expertise
- Understand requisite knowledge that underlies effective decision-making and is able to describe where anomalies or flaws may occur in the decision-making for their area of expertise
- Act as the “go to” person within a department or function for questions and problems within their area of expertise
- Explain their area of expertise clearly to others
- Not only answer how things are done, but why
- Ensure the facts and details are correct so that the project’s/program’s deliverable(s) will meet the needs of the stakeholders, legislation, policies, standards, and best practices
- Support the definition of processes and policies, supply business rules and procedures, and communicate the contexts in which the rules, processes and policies are applied
- Accurately represent their business units’ needs to the project/program team
- Validate the requirements and deliverables that describe the product(s) or service(s) that the project/program will produce
- Bring information about the project/program back to the customer community
- Provide input for the design and construction of test cases and scenarios, and may also validate executed test results
- Provide input into and/or create and execute user documentation and training material
- Test the product(s) or service(s) towards the end of the project/program (user acceptance testing), using and evaluating it for accuracy and usability, providing feedback to the project/program team
- Guide other professionals on the project/program to ensure the content is accurate
- Resolve issues relevant to project/program deliverable(s) within their area of expertise
- Obtain or provide approval for changes to rules, processes and policies
At Team Builder Solutions, we have developed a network of SME’s with extensive field execution and management experience. We can provide knowledge and expertise across a broad spectrum of construction related areas, including, but not limited to:
- Construction Management Support
- Owner Representatives
- Advanced Work Packaging Managers
- WorkFace Planning
- Project Assessments
- Time on Tool Studies
Education and Training
Team Builder Solutions facilitates the success of change initiatives by addressing and aligning the people, processes and technologies involved in the deployment of a new program. Our team works closely with clients in designing a training and mentoring program to meet the specific needs of the organization and/or project.
Today’s construction project execution environment is a web of complexity and tight schedules which requires that stakeholders are aligned during all aspects of a project.
Integrated project delivery (IPD) seeks efficiency and involvement of all participants (people, systems, processes, and best practices) through all phases of design, fabrication, and construction. IPD combines ideas from integrated practice, like Advanced Work Packaging, and lean construction principles. The objectives of IPD are to increase productivity, reduce waste (resources not utilized to their best efficiencies), avoid time overruns, enhance safety & quality, and reduce conflicts between the project stakeholders (owners, engineering, procurement, and construction) throughout the project lifecycle.
Advanced Work Packaging has been identified by Industry Leaders as one of the most promising approaches for much needed improvements in project safety, quality, material management, and productivity. It is an enhanced model that is the next logical step from current work packaging practices, encompassing full project life cycle strategies from pre-planning to turnover.
It is built on the understanding that focus on front end planning and detailed engineering leads to improved execution at the work front. Early project set-up and collaborative planning set the framework for coordinated construction, engineering and procurement work packages (CWPs, EWPs, & PWPs). This leads to more effective planning, execution, and monitoring of Installation, Test, and Turnover Work Packages (IWPs, TWPs, & TOPs) through WorkFace Planning
TBS is global leader in this process and can provide training and mentoring for all aspects of AWP.
Traditional Construction Management (CM) generally provides oversight to the planning, design, and construction of a project, from its beginning to turnover. The purpose of Construction Management is to control a project’s budget, schedule, safety, quality, and delivery.
TBS takes these traditional CM Principles, pairs them with methodologies like IPD and AWP, and combines them with technology to provide a well-rounded training and mentoring program for the project stakeholders.
Flexibility and mobility are the key to success when it comes to training your Team. With today’s need for remote access for much of stakeholder training, TBS can provide access to online safety courses from industry-leading training providers.
Realize the benefits of being able to access these hundreds of online safety courses from more than 60 leading training providers across Canada and the United States.
Managing health and safety can be tedious, difficult, and time-consuming. We offer the latest evolution in online safety management software. Realize the benefits of everything our leading-edge safety management software has to offer, including:
- Classroom Calendar
- Training Matrix
- Training Record Management
- Digital Forms
- Equipment Maintenance
- Online Course Library
- Online Orientations
We provide professional speakers who translate their extensive field and management experience into practical business advantages.
These industry leaders have experienced, firsthand, the many challenges faced in today’s highly competitive environment. They help demystify the complexities of modern mitigation strategies by providing insight from real world application.
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