The decision to rebuild your house bring about a tremendous amount of challenges and the thought of managing the project thru’ different stages of construction is mind boggling.
If we are not careful at the planning stage, the end result would lead to wastage, excessive costs and delays from poor coordination and communication among various stakeholders. These include the architect, professional engineers, contractors and the various approving government agencies.
Before you embark on this sweet and challenging route, please decide on the budget(cost) and the intended needs and design.
The next step is to choose an architect and appoint a professional engineer. The architect will be the key person to liaison with all government agencies.
At the same time, get hold a surveyor and also appoint a soil specialist to conduct investigation of the foundation soil condition.
After we get approval from the relevant government agencies on the architectural and structural design, the architect will prepare the specifications and the tender documentation to call for tenders. The tender documentation will have the specifications on the material and also time line to complete. Of equal importance, is the financial status of the contractor which is the key to ability to complete the project and also references from other projects to have an idea on the quality of workmanship.
Next, upon appointing the main contractor, the nightmare begins as the project life cycle kicks in and project management becomes the key to successful completion of the project.
How can we ensure the timeline is adhered to? The answer is well coordinated collaboration plan with subcontractors and interior designer and any other stakeholders.
At end of the day, when we take delivery of the house, it must be in line with what we expect.
We will be discussing the problems at different stages of the project from the owner’s view soon.
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