SERVICES
What We Do
Project
Management
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The DECON approach to project management is to take on, own and solve our clients’ problems. We work in a highly transparent way in our dealings with our clients, suppliers and collaborative partners, using our extensive knowledge of what works to take end-to-end responsibility for creating category-defining, experiential spaces for our clients.
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Our background of managing multisite rollouts and pipelines for our clients means that we plan for the future by driving efficiencies in the design and build process. Keeping things simple, driving value, managing suppliers and contractors, so that client teams can achieve the opening targets in a timely fashion.
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Known in our industry to be some of the toughest negotiators around costs, we pride ourselves on delivering cost solutions for our client base. We offer a comprehensive service of tendering, value engineering and managing the entire procurement pathway for new sites. Due to the volume of projects we deliver each year, we are able to leverage this buying power to pass cost savings to our clients.
Cost consultancy and management involves budgeting, cost estimation, financial planning, value engineering, risk assessment, cost control, contract management, and ensuring projects stay within financial constraints.
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We recognised that no one in our industry offered a fully comprehensive financial cost tracking process to manage all project costs. We ensure transparency of all project payments with cash trackers, weekly cost plans and management of all purchase orders. We have a dedicated team in house to liaise with client finance teams to ensure project costs are being updated and distributed consistently.
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By providing detailed and accurate site feasibility studies for new sites, our team can provide you with a detailed cost estimate, top line programme and a risk register within 24 hours of any site survey. This empowers our clients to make swift, sound commercial offers based on site specifics and challenges, saving weeks / months of protracted negotiations.
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Our team are adept at working with businesses and franchisors wishing to franchise their brand. From creating standard design and construction manuals to maintain brand consistency, we also support and manage external franchise partners with supply chain, procurement and delivery.
Services
Design
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We collaborate with your architect or interior design team to transform the finalised concept into a CAD drawing pack. Including detailed plans, elevations, sections, architectural details, legislation information and the co-ordination of services, this pack is sufficiently detailed to be shared with contractors for tendering purposes. The drawing pack showcases layouts, materials, finishes and fixtures, ensuring that the design concept is constructed accurately and implemented seamlessly as part of the design and project management service. It serves as the blueprint for the successful execution of your finalised interior design concept.
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Where a project is intended for rollout across multiple locations, we will create scalable and replicable design solutions with capacity to flex according to the demands of different sites. We recommend taking a consistent approach to brand application while adapting design elements according to the demands and constraints of each site. The goal is to achieve a desirable degree of uniformity and familiarity across an estate while accommodating specific local requirements and minimising costs or overruns. DECON’s capacity to offer both design and project management in-house makes this part of the process more straightforward as our consultants work as a team to protect the integrity of the design within the constraints of budget and timeframe.
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DECON’s dual design-project management capacity is hugely helpful in terms of value engineering. Our designers and project managers work together to optimise the design while balancing cost, functionality and aesthetics. Both teams are mindful of the importance of evaluating materials, systems, construction methods and layouts to minimise costs without compromising quality, functionality or customer experience. The shared goal is to deliver a high quality, efficient space that answers your needs and matches your budget.
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Working alongside the project management team we supervise the construction process to ensure that the design is implemented correctly and accurately on site.