Plan A’s Key Responsibilities

• Preparation and distribution of sub-consultancy agreements including scopes and responsibility matrices. This allowed the Architect to focus on their core design skills.
• Sub-consultant invoice management.
• Change control including additional works.
• Design management documentation including trackers, execution plans and weekly progress reports. The benefit of the trackers was to provide clarity on what decisions needed to be made and when.
• Overall design schedule in addition to design programmes for each design stage.
• Tracking and resolution of design issues.
• Definition of design deliverables and level of detail per stage.
• Support in the procurement process on behalf of the Architect at Contractor appointment (two stage design and build route).
• Chairing Client and Team meetings and reporting on progress.
• Meeting schedule, agendas, and minutes.