Charl Ras & Co is a professional consultancy providing project planning & controls services to the Construction and Engineering sectors.  Our specialist Project Controls is designed to protect our client's interests in precisely this way as we provide all the necessary expertise in planning, cost control, change control, reporting and risk management.

Planning is not done off hand.  It is prepared after careful and extensive research of our clients organisation to ensure existing processes are being correctly implemented to create, maintain and measure programmes.  Working closely with you from the moment of our appointment, we use our benchmark databases and integrated work breakdown structure to provide you with a clear approach for implementing definitions of scope, schedule, estimates and risk assesments in order to manage your contingency allocation decisions.

Other Key Points

• Programme baseline - Realistic delivery programmes prior to main contractor involvement, involving critical path identification.  Work closely with you to provide scope of works, schedule and contingency allocation.
  
• Reporting and cost scheduling - Certainty of Project Delivery and ongoing accurate progress reporting for minor costs.  Report actual cost and scope completion against baseline during project implementation stage.
  
• Managing risk and change control - Effective integration of the overall Project risks into the programme to ensure mitigation measures actioned where necessary.
  
• Additional support - and guidance to existing Planning team.
  
• Planning and commercial - integrated experience to ensure effective claims analysis and progression to a timely successful conclusion