10th January 2019
It is one of two medical cities (the second is located in Jeddah) ordered by King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, in order to provide specialized and advanced health care facilities to the Ministry’s staff and security officers. These medical cities are part of a plan to provide integrated medical services across the country, including patient transfer from other hospitals. This is a vast project comprising three hospitals at the heart of the facility, comprised of:
Before our engagement, and following the announcement of the winning tender, the client decided to move the entire project from the original site to a new location, with different ground conditions and site layout. It was at this point that Linesight came on board and was tasked with overseeing the many variations that resulted from this move. This necessitated a complete revision of previous assumptions from the tender stage, as well as a complete re-measure, rate revision and cross-check exercise. In turn, this facilitated the provision of a full report on the cost of each building to ensure the quantity and cost provided by ABV at tender stage was accurate and sufficient
It is imperative that the design cost is kept within budget, which we have ensured primarily through the evaluation of submitted designs and provision of cost reports with recommendations and potential risk areas. Our team also evaluated the possibility of cost recovery, providing detailed reports assessing whether the cost increase/decrease had come from scope change or variation. The Client used this assessment to form part of a $500M claim for additional works.
In order to improve cost efficiency and identify potentially superior solutions during the project’s early stages, we provided cost advice to the design team before the submitting of Transmittal**. In addition, we conducted value engineering exercises for ABV and advised on the cost of potential claims and variations.
Building a strong relationship with our clients is crucial to the success of all projects. We pride ourselves on forging positive and enduring working relationships. We do this by finding the correct solution to the Client’s particular problem and meeting all stakeholder expectations. Our ability to provide broad knowledge of the medical sector gained from previous large-scale projects helped with building the Client’s trust in Linesight, as did the professionalism of the entire team. These factors led to us being appointed as leader of the project’s team of cost managers.
We were key advisors to the client on the legal matters of the contract, which involved understanding, analyzing, checking and identifying the most cost-effective solutions. The signed contract was a lump sum; however when we compared the contract against local legislation, we found discrepancies that benefitted our client (e.g. the contractor is entitled to payment for works actually carried out, contrary to the original lump sum contract).
In order to overcome measurement variances between Linesight and the Client in-house cost management team, we presented their associated quantity back up using the CostX Program. As the Client cost management team did not use CostX as their primary quantification tool, a CostX Viewer was used by the Client.
During the design process, we were able to identify alternative solutions that would lead to improved efficiencies, both in terms of cost and time, through extensive cost analysis processes. Areas in which this was particularly relevant included structural design alternatives for the main hospital, alternatives to infrastructure pipework and various façade options for the main hospital and residential villas.
* Utility buildings include chiller & boiler plants, standby power plant, electrical substations, engineering offices, vehicle maintenance workshop, plant nursery, warehouse, central laundry, medical gases, workshops, waste water treatment plant and irrigation reservoir
** Document Transmittal is the process used, usually on a construction project, to formally dispatch Technical Documents such as Drawings from one party to the other. It is therefore a contractual process and the transmittal documents themselves are contractual ones
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