Commercial

Building Project Management.

New building work and large scale refurbishments can initially seem daunting, with so many moving parts to manage effectively to meet your budget and set timeframes – where do you start?

What Does a Building Project Manager Do?

Whether you are a homeowner, investor, asset manager, or property developer, you can work with us to manage the fit-out or refurbishment of your property. Our services ensure:

Overseeing all aspects of health and safety for the site, including any certification needed or providing resources to help meet these requirements.

Assistance in building the right project team for your work. This includes design team and contractors.

Control the cost of the job at hand, from labour costs to resources used.

Assess and predict timescales over both short and long term objectives.

Make quality assessments on behalf of you the client, based on current guidelines and from a wealth of experience.

We work with you from beginning to end to add knowledge and experience to every project, bring life back to old spaces and provide value at every touchpoint. We’ll develop your ideas and requirements whilst working with professional teams and contractors to deliver the project to the highest standard.

Benefit from our honest advice and expertise throughout the whole lifecycle of your project. Our Building Project Managers understand that you require leadership, coordination and accountability presented in a clear and coordinated manner. We can communicate key risks, actions, and costs at each stage.

We then assess what stages you are at with your project and offer advice going forward until the completion date, before offering a broad analysis of the project from our perspective, helping you with any future projects that you have planned.

What Does the Property Project Management Service Include?

Our Property Project Management Services team work on the following core principles:

Overseeing all aspects of health and safety for the site, including any certification needed or providing resources to help meet these requirements.

Assistance in building the right project team for your work. This includes design team and contractors. Then liaising with these parties to ensure that each is clear on their expected scope and all are adequately supported.

Control the cost of the job at hand, from labour costs to resources used.

Assess and predict timescales over both short and long term objectives.

Make quality assessments on behalf of you the client, based on current guidelines and from a wealth of experience.

Creating a schedule of works agreeing the scope, from initial planning to finishing touches.

Managing risk – all risk assessments carried out on time and to code.

Provide risk registers to track, monitor, and mitigate.

Provide key action trackers to ensure all parties are aware of what is required of them and the timescales for their involvement.

Managing cost from labour to resources and further spending.

Reporting through agreed channels of communication to all necessary parties.

We offer a detailed analysis of the project with highlights to reports and end-stage assessments.

Stage reporting to advise on keys actions undertaken in the previous stage and recommendations for the next stage.

Making sure that these core principles are met is key to what we do, and form the basis for any effective project that we are involved with. We also provide full transparency on these core principles, and take pride in doing so.

Our Building Project Management Service

Our team can give you peace of mind that any lease obligations are appropriately benchmarked against the condition of the property, providing protection to Tenants or Landlords with a view to future dilapidations claims. We thoroughly photograph your property with annotations, accurately documenting its current condition, ensuring nothing gets missed, protecting you from unexpected costs during the lease term and at expiry.

Why Choose Fourth Wall As Your Design and Build Project Manager?

We’ve torn down the traditional project management practice – we’ll work and communicate in ways that work for you, and for what’s best for the project. Our team understands that each project and building is unique, which is why we tailor each of our services to your needs. 

Our RICS-accredited team wants to add social value to living, breathing buildings, whether that’s through restoration or from the foundations upwards, we want to get the very best out of the towns and cities in which we live and the buildings which we inhabit every day. 

With Fourth Wall, your project won’t just be one of a thousand other projects sitting in an inbox somewhere. Our trained and dedicated team makes sure to work closely with each site to better understand any possible issues that may arise and actively make day-to-day decisions based on these assessments. Our Project Managers have years of experience in sensible, jargon-free, practical and cost-saving project management. 

Pre Lease Survey FAQs

Browse some of the common questions that our team are asked when it comes to choosing the service that’s right for you.

What Makes An Effective Project Manager?

Organisation, knowledge, communication, and proactiveness are essential to being an effective Building Project Manager. Here at Fourth Wall, we stay up-to-date with current trends and ways to work on-site effectively, communicate between teams and meet deadlines.

A great Project Manager understands that projects often don’t go exactly to plan. They should use their knowledge of the industry they’re in and be proactive in enabling the team to get the project back on track in an efficient manner.

How Do Project Managers Add Value To a Project?

Answered simply, a project manager makes sure that effort expended by members of the build team is best put into practice. When you are assessing the likely costs of a project, you may ask yourself how a project manager can add real, tangible value to the project. We assess: –

  • Start and end times of all staff under our supervision to keep costs at a minimum.
  • All resources arriving or leaving a site, keeping relative costs and any wastage to a minimum where possible.
  • Focus on the needs of your customers and clients, bringing in input and ideas from their end to best complete our goals.
  • Actively assess and review feedback from all channels and fit this into any plans or proposals going forward. Communication is key between channels, teams and services.
  • Maintain monitoring and communication of known and new risks, whether that is cost, discovery of new issues on site, programme review, and feedback on other professional teams involvement or findings.
  • We deliver on our promises. Often, when unexpected challenges arrive on a project, we manage expectations and assess liability where suitable, bringing together outcomes to these challenges and creating new updated goals going forward.

What Our Clients Say.

We could tell you how great our team and services are, but that would be too easy. Why not take a look at what some of our previous clients have said?

“Fantastic report with great technical detail. We recently had a building survey conducted on a property by another surveyor and the report provided by Fourth Wall was leagues ahead.”

– Robert Sykes

“High quality, clear and practical: Really useful report, very clear with helpful photographs and budget for repairs. They gave some really helpful extra insight on the phone post survey. Would recommend.”

– Rachel Morrison

“Great service, with a detailed final report for a good price. Everything was completed on time.”

– Thomas Worthington

“A detailed report was provided in a week. It was well presented, clearly laid out and each point colour coded. A pleasure to deal with. I would highly recommend and will definitely use their services again in the future.”

– R.C

“Our survey was as detailed as the sample one, yet it was easy to understand and explained exactly all the issues. I’d definitely use Fourth Wall again, if I needed to.”

– Louie Parkin

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With Fourth Wall, your project won’t just be one of a thousand other projects sitting in an inbox somewhere. Our trained and dedicated team makes sure to work closely with each site to better understand any possible issues that may arise and actively make day-to-day decisions based on these assessments. Our Project Managers have years of experience in sensible, jargon-free, practical and cost-saving project management. 


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