Project Oversight

Ongoing professional construction support at any stage of your project, without the cost of a full-time Project Manager.

Project Oversight provides experienced guidance throughout the life of your project.

It’s designed for those who want confidence, clarity, and professional reassurance, while remaining hands-on with their build.

This is not day-to-day project management. It’s practical and jargon free oversight, helping you make better decisions, at the right time, reducing risk and knowledge of the next steps.

Who project oversight is for

Project Oversight is suited to you if:

You are planning, building, or completing a residential project
You are managing your own consultants and contractors
You want professional guidance and reassurance at key decision points
You value experienced input, without handing responsibility to a third party

It’s particularly valuable if you want:

Greater clarity around sequencing and decision-making
Support navigating builders, contracts, and site progress
Confidence that important issues are being identified early

Project Oversight is designed to support and guide you, not to take control of your project or deliver it on your behalf.

What Project Oversight is (and isn’t)

Project Oversight is:

Ongoing professional guidance and review
Support at key decision points
A sounding board for technical, contractual, and process questions
Senior oversight from a Chartered Construction Manager

Project Oversight is not:

Full project management
Contractor supervision or site management
Day-to-day coordination of trades or consultants
Delivery of the project on your behalf

Responsibility for delivery remains with you and your appointed team, Project Oversight exists to support, guide, and protect you as you do so.

Project Oversight is not intended for one-off troubleshooting or reactive issue resolution outside a structured support period.

How Project Oversight works

Project Oversight is provided on an ongoing monthly basis and can begin at any stage of your project, pre-construction, during the build, or towards completion.

Support is structured, professional, and focused on:

Regular check-ins
Review of key information before decisions are made
Guidance on issues as they arise
Input at defined milestones

Where Project Oversight begins during pre-construction or the build stage, it typically runs over a minimum three-month period to allow sufficient time to support proper sequencing, decision-making, and delivery.

Where support is required solely at the completion stage, Project Oversight may be provided on a shorter, one-month basis.

Examples of support

Project Oversight adapts to where you are in your project. Typical examples of support include:

Plan It - Pre-Construction Support

Structuring and Sequencing Your Pre-Construction Programme - examples include:

Guidance on how your project should be sequenced, what needs to happen when, and how early decisions affect everything that follows. This includes helping you understand and apply a pre-construction programme, rather than leaving you to work it out alone.
Preparing for Builders, when to engage, what to share, and how to avoid false pricing
Support around when to approach builders, what information they should receive, and how to avoid premature or misleading pricing before the project is properly defined.
Navigating Builder Selection, Tenders, and Contracts with Confidence
Professional guidance through shortlisting builders, reviewing tender information, understanding key contract considerations, and knowing what questions to ask before committing.

Build It - Construction Phase Support

Interpreting and Using the Builder’s Programme to Control Progress
Support in understanding the builder’s programme, when it should be issued, what to look for, and how it becomes a key tool for tracking progress, planning decisions, and protecting your investment.
Managing Variations, Change, and Cost Risk During the Build
Guidance on how to approach variations, understand their implications, and make informed decisions before agreeing to changes that affect cost, programme, or quality.
Contracts, Payments, and Working with Building Control
Advice on having contracts properly in place, structuring and agreeing payment stages in advance, and understanding Building Control inspections, reports, and any actions required as a result.

Certify It - Completion and sign off support

Understanding What Goes into an Operations & Maintenance (O&M) Pack
Clarity on what information should be provided at completion, why it matters, and how to ensure critical documents, warranties, and manuals are properly collated.
Planning Final Inspections, Sign-Offs, and Information Gathering
Support in organising final inspections, coordinating sign-offs, and gathering the right information from installers and contractors without last-minute pressure.
Closing Out Final Payments While Retaining Proper Leverage
Guidance on when and how to make final payments, ensuring work is properly completed and signed off, while retaining appropriate leverage should issues need to be resolved

Additional Support

Where appropriate, Project Oversight can be supplemented with one-off pieces of additional support, such as:

Preparing a bespoke pre-construction programme
Focused reviews at specific milestones
Additional professional input during particularly complex stages

Any additional support is agreed in advance.

Fees and commitment