Service 05
Project Management
Project Management
& Site Supervision.
One point of contact from mobilisation to completion certificate, managing contractors, suppliers, and the site on your behalf.
One point of contact from mobilisation to completion certificate, managing contractors, suppliers, and the site on your behalf.
Project management is where design ambitions are either realised or lost. Most projects that fail to deliver on the design do so not because the drawings were inadequate, but because the site was poorly managed. We prequalify contractors, manage the programme, maintain quality control, and supervise the build from the first day on site to the moment we hand you the keys.
We do not simply accept any contractor who submits a price. We prequalify, reviewing track record, financial stability, team competence, and quality of completed work in comparable projects. We invite selected contractors to price the works, evaluate their programmes and methodologies, and recommend the most suitable appointment. You make the decision with complete information.
Once the site mobilises, we are present. Our site supervision is not a periodic check-in, it is active management of the programme, quality of workmanship, and adherence to the approved design. Issues that would otherwise be discovered at handover are identified and resolved during construction, before they become costly. Every critical milestone is inspected and signed off before the next stage proceeds.
We maintain a live programme and a detailed cost tracker throughout the project. Variations are managed formally, with your approval before any additional expenditure is committed. At the end of the project, we coordinate the completion certificate process, handle all authority inspections, and ensure the handover is complete and documented.
Through a structured tender. First we prequalify contractors on track record, financial stability, team competence and the quality of comparable work. Selected firms then price the same drawings and specification package, so the bids can be compared like for like. We evaluate each price alongside the contractor's programme and methodology, and recommend the strongest appointment. You make the final decision with complete information in front of you.
Every change to the agreed scope is handled as a formal variation. The contractor prices it, we review it against the contract and the design, and nothing proceeds until you have approved the cost. We keep a live programme and a detailed cost tracker throughout, so you can see at any point what has been committed, what has changed, and why.
Handover is managed, not left to chance. We run snagging inspections, make sure every defect is closed out, coordinate the final authority inspections and the Building Completion Certificate or Modification Completion Certificate, and hand over the property with its documentation complete. Co-founder Abdallah Massarweh's background spans contractor, consultant, client-side and government-authority roles, so the studio brings experience of that close-out process from every side.
Contractors build. They do not represent your interests against themselves. A project manager works for you, prequalifies and manages the contractor, supervises quality, controls programme, and protects design intent on site. The vast majority of issues we resolve are ones the contractor would not have raised on their own.
Daily or weekly site presence depending on phase, snagging at every milestone, signing off concealed works before they are covered, coordinating between contractor and consultants, chasing material approvals, and producing weekly progress reports. We are on site so the client doesn't have to be.
Both. We frequently supervise builds where the design was done by another firm, sometimes international, and the client wants someone in Dubai protecting the design through construction. We bring the same rigour either way.
Typically as a percentage of construction cost, scaled to project size and intensity of supervision required. We propose a fee at the start of the engagement based on a clearly defined scope. There are no hourly rates and no surprise charges.
Yes. We are on site so you do not have to be. You receive weekly progress reports, and nothing that affects cost or design proceeds without your approval.
Yes, selectively. Most of our work is luxury residential, but we also manage projects for boutique developers and for F&B and hospitality operators where the standard of delivery matters as much as the design.
Before the contractor. The most valuable decisions in project management happen during prequalification and tender, when the right contractor is chosen and the scope is fixed. Appointing us at that stage means the programme, budget and quality controls are in place before anyone is on site.
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