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CASE study overnight guests weren't disturbed, Claridge's hosted several high-profile events during construction, including the Harper's Bazaar Women of the Year Awards and the hotel's annual Christmas tree launch. To minimise disruption, frontof-house staff devised a traffic light scheme highlighting times of caution and complete silence. "When we were working directly below the existing building, the noise would reverberate up through the hotel, but we were able to sequence work in Asta Powerproject to ensure we met noise schedules." While initially, staff would block out whole days for important events, this impacted the progress of extension works. To avoid delays, the front-of-house team worked with McGee to determine times when work could continue (for example, during drinks receptions with a lot of background noise) versus critical silent points (such as wedding speeches). Asta Powerproject's detailed timelines meant Michelle and her team could work tasks around hotel activities to continue as effectively as possible while minimising the inconvenience to paying guests. A FIVE-STAR FINISH, DELIVERED AHEAD OF SCHEDULE With significant structural risks, out-ofthe-box techniques and the restrictions of a live hotel to contend with, a lot could have gone wrong with the construction of Claridge's Hotel mega basement. But meticulous planning and execution through Asta Powerproject ensured that McGee delivered the five-storey extension on time and to an exceptionally high standard. In fact, McGee delivered the agreed programme six months early, so Claridge's Hotel could expand the brief to add further elements. This incredibly ambitious project quickly captured the construction industry's attention, with the judges of the 2018 Fleming Award stating that, "it really did stand out in terms of rigour, technical complexity and innovation that ran through the project from start to finish". It was also highly commended at the Ground Engineering Award in 2019, with one judge remarking that "the project was undertaken within extraordinary operational constraints and with exceptional human endeavour." Most importantly, the new mega basement has been very well received by Claridge's Hotel customers, who continue to leave five-star reviews. MAKING CONFIDENT CUSTOMER PROMISES Before embarking on the Claridge's Hotel project, Michelle described herself as a "nervous" Asta Powerproject user, but her confidence and expertise have grown since then. She has just completed an 800-line programme for a new engineering project, and the development of her Asta Powerproject skills (and her colleagues' skills) have helped shape the way McGee plans and executes construction work. "Rather than creating an initial high-level programme and trying to figure out how long a project will take, we can now look at how long each task takes, and Asta Powerproject will give us the overall length of the programme. It's made us more confident in our promises to our clients." Moreover, Michelle sees the value programme management software can bring to site operations - particularly in cities, where lack of space makes logistics challenging. "Project management software isn't used enough at site level. We're not waiting for a planner who doesn't know the ins and outs of a project to do a weekly site visit. Because we have Asta Powerproject, we can share data and discuss the effect of doing one thing versus another in realtime. I think that's invaluable." The power behind successful projects: book a free demo to experience Asta Powerproject. 12 September/October 2023
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