Risk & Issue Management
Ramboll provides an unparalleled range of pre-emptive and responsive risk and issue management services. These include providing expertise to manage your projects’ risk process, facilitating project risk and opportunity workshops to identify and analyse potential risks and opportunities.
Delivery services
- Risk management – we can own a projects entire risk management process through the lifecycle, from establishing risk processes, understanding risks, and integrating risk registers
- Issue management – rapidly managing and resolving issues by providing experts to own resolution actions, act and communicate on best resolutions, and update stakeholders
- Hazard management – protecting projects and people through expert hazard management expertise, conducting construction reviews and identifying and eliminating potential hazards
- Risk managers and mitigation measures – providing risk managers through execution phase, advising on risk adaptations and improvements, reviewing impacts to baselined schedules
Advisory services
- Risk validation and analysis – impartial advice on tools, methods and software to support risk management, use of risk modelling tools to understand risk probabilities and exposures
- Financial risks and balance reviews – proposing project insurances, financial risk dispute resolution, determining risk contingency, risk and reward balances, and exposure to appetite
- Environmental and community risk – undertaking site investigations, conducting comprehensive risk assessments, producing action and mitigation plans
Engineering and Construction Management
Ramboll has impressive expertise spanning the built environment, including construction, civil engineering and industrial project environments. Whether undertaking design management services for a new building, providing technical and environmental due diligence, or conducting cost estimates, we can ensure construction project challenges are overcome.
Delivery services
- Construction and engineering management – managing the engineering design process and undertaking feasibility studies, ensuring site safety through construction, planning construction sequences, and managing project quality and contractor performance
- Claims avoidance and resolution – using claims managers, establishing claims management through contract reviews, devising strategies for extensions and liquidated damages
- Design and environmental due diligence (TEDD) – conducting TEDD to new and existing projects, TEDD reinstatement calculations and undertaking built operational cost checks
- Construction Design Management (CDM) – improving H&S by providing CDM expertise, undertaking CDM project analysis and providing assurance CDM obligations are met
Advisory services
- Construction planning and programming – set out project planning approach, define considerations before construction, develop construction budgets, feasibility studies and modelling and construction sequencing
- Cost estimating and value engineering – providing conceptual cost estimates, value engineering estimates and recommending effective cost estimating software, pre-contract bid validation, value engineered cost estimates and functional validation
- Building Information Modelling (BIM) – advanced expertise in BIM and computational analysis, 3D modelling, incorporating sustainability into BIM and resolving clash issues
- Health, safety and security (HSS) – producing HSS plans, processes, procedures and design HSS risk assessments
- Environment and sustainability – sustainability master planning, expertise in WELL, BREEAM and LEED, reducing building energy demands, environmental impact assessments and environmental management documentation
Commercial, Contracts and Project Controls
We establish and deliver effective commercial, contractual and project controls. From advising on benefits and drawbacks of contract types, ensuring project controls are deployed, to developing commercial and contract strategies, we have the expertise to deliver project value and success.
Delivery services – commercial and contract
- Procurement – advising on contract and procurement terms, engaging procurement consultants, contractors and suppliers
- Contracts and claims – managing the project contract and offering fact-based contract and claims management advice, including insurances/guarantees
Advisory services – commercial and contract
- Managing pre-qualification and tenders – advice for PQQ documentation creation, and production, oversight and evaluation and tenders and the award of main and sub-contracts
- Contract administration – providing expert contract managers, ensuring contractors meet obligations and mitigating impacts of contractual changes
Delivery services – project controls
- Cost engineering, management and estimating – providing expert estimators and cost managers to accurately provide quantity estimates, ensure projects are cost engineered, and that costs are considered holistically and are integrated into controllable elements
- Project, documentation and quality controls – project control managers who establish operating procedures and monitor project contractual compliance, expert document controllers and management systems, and quality assurers who devise assurance plans
- Financial, risk and construction change management – accurate forward financial projections, financial system reviews and cost plans, evaluate probability of construction risks and monitoring site operations, implementing change control processes and reporting
Advisory services – project controls
- Project and document controls – proposing project control skills and capabilities needed, establishing a framework for project controls, reviewing project documentation and recommending documentation management methods
- Project funding – advising on project funding sources, project financial management set-up, and undertaking financial modelling and due diligence
