Design management

Ensuring your gas network, utilities and construction designs are compliant, suitable, deliverable and safe.

Our design consultancy focuses on design assurance – providing an independent technical authority that interrogates designs for their compliance and suitability. This interrogation considers all relevant influencing factors e.g. client specifications, industry standards, engineering best practice and compliance with the UK regulations applicable to that project. By addressing these, and identifying key deliverables required, we create logical steps to manage construction project design – on time, on budget and to standard.

Using our design management service allows you to:

  • Identify and map out the key project aims and milestones.
  • Understand and digest all relevant specifications and design requirements.
  • Identify key risks relating to design, construction and maintenance from a health, safety and environmental perspective with a "safety by design" approach.
  • Verify the design risks (HAZID, HAZOP, HAZCON, HAZDEM) through our tried and tested integrated approach to Formal Process Safety Assessments (FPSA) procedures in line with client requirements and using our approved QEM chairman.
  • Ensure the design and the design process is compliant in accordance with the Construction, Design and Management Regulations 2015, including providing principal designer duties and CDM advisors.
  • Have a clear and effective approach to managing design contractors from tendering, tender analysis and recommendation, design checks, approvals, auditing and verification of compliance and - where necessary - validation of integrated approach to design.
  • Develop clear and concise project design plans.

Design management services

Why QEM?

Confidence

Proven design expertise instils confidence that the project's design and construction will be right first time.

Compliance

Ensuring that both the design and the design process are compliant with all relevant and required regulations and international standards.

Risk mitigation

Development of risk mitigation by design ensures safe buildability, operability and maintenance.

Flexible resource

Our skilled resource is mobilised and administered from in-house, making our provision scalable, timely and cost-effective. We can provide skilled people on ad-hoc, part-time and full-time availability as required.

Full stakeholder vision

We use practical, site-experienced design managers and engineers with technical understanding of client management systems, so that they can develop an integrated design process that will also assist the contractors.

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