About the Author:

Alan Edwards has worked in the construction industry all his life since starting work at 16 years old for a local building contractor in Hampshire and Project deliverance, England.

His career progressed to working for a larger building and civil engineering contractor (as part of the ABF Group) throughout the UK and then to the Middle East on a large hotel construction project in the UAE.

He then started working for project and construction management consultants managing major hotel projects on behalf of corporate clients in the Caribbean, the Hotel Corporation of the Bahamas.

Upon return to the UK, he worked for large property development blue chip clients such as P&O Developments, and Prudential on office developments in London and the Home counties. Alan was involved in the extremely successful Chelsea Harbour mixed-used development between 1986 and 1990.

Alan progressed to working directly for infrastructure clients such as Crossrail, Railtrack/Network Rail, and Docklands Light Railway (Where he was seconded by Arup Project Management for the Stratford International Extension project) directly on major rail projects in the UK and Internationally.

From extensive experience of managing residential, commercial, as well as railway infrastructure projects, Alan knows the design and construction process intimately, and he has countered many claims from contractors on occasion.

Alan set up Alpus Group in Slovenia in 2015 to give the benefit of his experience to property investors and sponsors of projects in the UK, the European Union and Europe outside the EU, the Middle East and South Africa.

Why People Should Read Project Deliverance.

Anyone who is engaged in the procurement or sponsoring of property development or infrastructure project deliverance would be well advised to read about the author´s experience of the best ways to organize design and construction.

Alan will explain what worked well with different types and forms of contract, such as NEC, JCT, Design and Build contracts, FIDIC, I Chem E (Target Cost) arrangements.

You will read about the experience of the most successful property developers such as P&O Developments and Project Deliverance some of those that failed, and the reasons why that happened, from Alan´s first-hand experience of these projects at the time.

If you are an infrastructure client you can learn how to set up your project for success without incurring the costly lessons directly yourself.

What People Will Learn From Project Deliverance

Readers of Project Deliverance will easily assimilate the lessons learned from literally dozens of construction projects of various types of residential, commercial and infrastructure projects, carried out for numerous different clients both private and public sector.

One of the key lessons that will become apparent from reading the book is not necessarily the relevant merits of the different standard contracts such as AIA, NEC, FIDIC, JCT IChemE etc.

Rather the reader will be encouraged to look at the risk profile of their particular project and to set it up so that those best placed to manage a particular risk should be allocated with that responsibility.

You will also learn why comprehensive stakeholder inclusion and management can be a key factors in ensuring the success of your project.

Over and above the technical aspects of project management is the need to set your project up for success by ensuring that you arrange a collaborative environment for the various parties to contribute in a constructive way to solving the complex problems that arise with any major project.

The final chapter of “Project Deliverance” summarizes 20 key critical factors for the success of any project, that you really need as a checklist for setting up your next project