Design and development management · UAE and Saudi Arabia
Design management, development management and project direction for developers and owners. Forty years of setting up, running and rescuing building projects across the UK, Hong Kong, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
01 · Services
Engaged as an interim or seconded lead, on a monthly retainer, or by the day. Every proposal states the days per week committed.
Design programmes, design responsibility matrices, stage gates and interface control. The design team adds value as the design develops, and the programme holds.
Record: Gateway, Dubai · Happy Valley Racecourse, Hong Kong · Tiffany Tower, Dubai
On the developer's side from feasibility to handover: brief, financial model, appointments, approvals, value engineering and board reporting.
Record: Raffles Jeddah · Abu Dhabi Arena · Marasi Village
One accountable lead across the client team, consultants and contractors, from mobilisation to handover, with health and safety first on every agenda.
Record: New Ahmadi Hospital, Kuwait · GEMS schools, UAE
For a project that has stalled or gone wrong: an honest assessment first, then a plan to get it back on programme.
Also
Procurement strategy · Construction management · Consultant appointment · Tendering support · Delay analysis · PMO set-up · Market analysis · Operational management · Family office project planning
02 · Our work
Kuwait · 2012–2014 · USD 350 million
Client's Representative leading the 50-strong PMC team for Kuwait Oil Company on a 300-bed hospital already under construction.
Dubai · 2006–2009 · USD 550 million
Design delivery for design-and-build contractor Taisei: three towers of 47 to 58 storeys over a 14-storey podium, more than 500,000 sq m.
Jeddah · 2014–2015 · USD 350 million
Senior Project Director (Development) for a stalled 162,000 sq m hotel and residential scheme on the Jeddah Corniche.
03 · Insights
What a century of construction reform tells us about delivering complex projects, and what a designed project organisation contains.
Read "Designing the Project Organisation""We are not in the business of smothering a project in 'management'. We believe in getting the right people into the team and letting them add value to the project."
04 · About
Neil Mowat is a chartered structural engineer and project director with more than 40 years' experience of complex buildings. He has worked for developers and owners, consultants and contractors in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Hong Kong and the UK.
He began as a structural engineer at Arup and Buro Happold, ran structural design teams in Hong Kong for 12 years, then moved into design management, client-side development management and project direction in the Gulf. He has prepared or helped prepare six expert witness reports on technical and delay disputes.
If a project has not started and you want it set up so that it does not go wrong, or it has gone wrong and needs an honest read, we would like to hear from you.
