Kilgallen and Partners has the scope and expertise to deliver completed construction projects on behalf of our clients by providing design and project management services from concept through to project handover.
A measure of the quality of such a consultancy service is the financial control that is achieved on a construction project through innovative and practical design in the pursuit of a finished project of the highest quality. We refer to this as Value Engineering.
Value Engineering (VE) is a management technique that seeks the best functional balance between cost, reliability and performance of a product, project, process or service.
The VE team works as an extension of the design team, and analyses the project from a function/cost standpoint, providing alternative design suggestions that may improve performance, construction and life-cycle costs. They may also improve construction methods or schedules, and may introduce flexibility into operating or maintaining the project.
Unnecessary costs can creep into projects for a number of reasons such as:
- Strict adherence to the terms of reference outlined in the project brief without challenging their necessity;
- Reuse of design features that have worked previously but may be out-of-date, unnecessary or inappropriate;
- Lack of a key creative idea;
- Technological changes in processes, products or materials;
- Temporary decisions that become permanent when time, budget or other constraints or factors do not present opportunity for reassessment and when cost trending is not carried out as part of the management of the project.
Kilgallen and Partners always apply VE techniques thus providing the Contracting Authority and/or individual Clients with the confidence of a cost effective quality design, and we consistently provide a service that delivers cost-effective solutions without compromising the quality of the finished project.
We set our standards by commitment to agreed milestones with our clients and ensuring that these commitments are honoured.
Kilgallen & Partners has a strong management structure in place ensuring that each project receives the appropriate level of experience and expertise and that all our clients have a point of contact at senior level to maintain good client-consultant communication through the life of a project. The company comprises two Directors, one Regional Director and one Associate Director, project engineers, graduate engineers, and supporting administrative staff.