Services

Cost Management

AHC helps our clients protect their investment by establishing an affordable budget that meets their aspirations, then and managing the costs throughout the whole process, from inception design and procurement to construction and maintenance. AHC by utilising AHC Subject experts in Cost Management. All AHC’s projects are actively partner led, giving our clients the benefit of our most experienced people.

Project Management

AHC helps our clients to manage the project with AHC’s project management team who ensures the time, cost, and quality aspects of client’s requirements are achieved in project cycle.

Contract Management

Management of contracts starts with a proper, thought-out strategy, followed by identification and allocation of risks, definition of obligations and responsibilities. AHC’s consultants have contractual and legal backgrounds that help clients manage their contracts efficiently.Managing multiple contracts with complexity and value is the normal for AHC. With growth, and an increase in suppy chain, the need for contract compliance from the creation of contact agreements, to requisitioning and generating purchase orders, through to invoicing and payments. Increasing the frequency with which obligations must be actively monitored and managed is a necessity of modern day Projects.

Contract Administration

Contract administration involves all activities related to the monitoring of suppy chain, contractors. and service providers' performance in the fulfillment of their contractual obligations. the contract administrator will ensure appropriate actions are taken to promptly remedy any deficiencies in contract implementation, scope or terms and conditions. our highly experienced commercial managers, contract managers, and contract administrators support our clients in drafting letters, responding to letters, administering contracts and complying with the provisions of the contract including the preparation of notices. AHC can Strategise and manage the contract administration both up and down the supply change placing our clients in the best contractual position.

Contract and Claims Advisory Services

Project outcomes can be positively influenced by timely specialist intervention. AHC 's contract advisory consultancy Services provides the best influence possible. Key services include contractual advice, procurement, project recovery plans,variations, claims, adjudication, arbitration. dispute management, dispute resolution and expert witness services.

Claim Avoidance and Claim Preparation

AHC helps our clients to avoid claims and disputes. AHC can provide early strategic advice and hold regular meetings with our clients to avoid claims. AHC drafts clear, concise, and robust variations and claims which facilitates easy analysis and evaluation. AHC ensures our clients receive structured evidenced, organized constructed variations and claims and reports.

Claims Assessment

AHC through our subject matter experts prepare and analyze claims and disputes for Construction and Engineering, Oil and Gas projects throughout the world. AHC assists our clients by identifying, analyzing, quantifying, and presenting their claims on a project.

Equally AHC can prepare a defence for a client which is subjected to a claim or dispute. AHC prepare the defence or provide an independent recommendation on the strength and weaknesses of the claim or dispute including developing strategies for our client's management of the claim or dispute.

Forensic Planning Services

AHC provide baseline programme validation and rectification, identification of critical paths, analysis of delay events and forensic analysis of delay events. AHC's forensic planning methodology utilizes tried and tested techniques together with the latest specialist planning software packages such as Primavera P6, MS Project and Acumen Fuse / Risk AHC can investigate and identify differences between schedules and capture historical progress information. This allows AHC to create and recreate baseline or as built programmes, which can then be used to assess delay events, impact and entitlements. AHC captures, interpret and analyse data to produce graphical outputs which are easily understood and can demonstrate cause and effect.

Expert Services

AHC’s experts provide support to the developers, contractors and the legal profession in the preparation and defence of arbitrations, litigation and alternative dispute resolution matters.

Expert Advisory

Our experts assist from the outset of a dispute right through to giving evidence and being able to be cross examined under oath.

Independent Expert

AHC works to discover all of the necessary and relevant documents and information required to prepare expert reports.

Independent Determination

AHC’s experts are trained RICS independent determiners and are capable of providing an independent determination on a disputed matter by the examination of the Parties submissions and where necessary inquisitive investigation to provide and independent determination of the matter disputes by the Parties.

Testifying Expert

AHC’s experts are trained to internationally accepted standards and adhere to published and recognized best practice in the delivery of evidence in support of the Arbitration Tribunal or in litigation, whether in written or oral formats.

Arbitration and Litigation Support

AHC fully supports and engage with Claimants, Respondents, other instructed experts, appointed by the Arbitration Tribunal, Courts, or Party appointed. AHC’s experts value their independence and recognize their duty to the Arbitiration Tribunal and Courts to aid the Tribunal / courts to decide the disputed matter, whilst providing a truly independent professional opinion and evidence. AHC’s experts have testified in several different jurisdictions and under various Arbitration rules.

Expert Witness Services

The right expert witness testimony can provide insights related to a case that is grounded in a deep knowledge of their area of expertise. Our experts are authorities in their field, often with experience in public speaking. They can deliver a clear and logical analysis of the evidence and facts presented during tribunals and litigation, helping to back up our clients' cases.

Alternative Dispute Resolution

Alternative Dispute Resolution is an informal process by which the parties to a legal dispute meet with a third party "neutral" who will assist them in settling the case. This format poses several decided advantages over litigation. AHC have experience in resolving disputed matters as part of alternative Dispute Resolution such as

• Negotiation
• Amicable Settlement
• Dispute Avoidance and Adjudication Boards (DAAB)
• Dispute Avoidance Boards (DAB)

AHC’s experience in resolving disputes is down to AHC’s extensive technical and commercial abilities, with an expert knowledge of Construction Contracts, combined with excellent written and oral communication skills which allows our clients to have their disputes voiced and to reach a resolution. AHC’s team of experts have credentials and qualifications to act as negotiators, experts in their fields of expertise, mediators and arbitrators.

Mediation Services

As an experienced and certified mediator, AHC initially focused resolution on mediating disputes in employment law, business matters, landlord tenant cases, and other tort and contract claims. AHC over the years, has intentionally offered this method of dispute resolution as the way to resolve disputes with the agreement of the Parties and in negotiations.

Whole Life Cycle Costing

Assessing the cost of construction of a building or facility goes a long way beyond just calculating the materials and labour. Now, more than ever, it’s important to have an accurate understanding of what a development's costs will be from the 'cradle to the grave'.

Mentoring and Training Programme

AHC sees mentoring of people entering the construction industry and Quantity surveyors as the key to there being successful in their careers and acting in a professional manner.