The TOVP management Team has recently made an important decision to hire the assistance of a world-leading Project Management Consultancy (PMC) company, Cushman and Wakefield, to partner with them for the completion of the TOVP by the proposed 2022, Gaura Purnima time-frame.
This is a standard practice in the Construction industry for projects of this extraordinary size and complexity, and essential for the timely and budgeted work ahead now that the temple superstructure is finished. Cushman and Wakefield have been a household name in the Construction industry for over one hundred years with over 45,000 employees now operating in 40 offices and 70 countries around the world.
The role of a PMC is to take the lead management role in the design management, cost management and construction management of the project, acting as the extended arm and implementation team of the client for whom they are working in full cooperation to achieve their ultimate vision. A PMC offers the most efficient management solution for increasing and improving the overall efficiency and outcome of a project. This is accomplished by undertaking a planned series of synchronized and budgeted activities through well thought out planning and coordination, resulting in a highly organized, monitored and controlled strategy to produce a functionally and financially viable project that will be completed on time, within authorized cost and to the required quality standards.
After several months of rigorous research, interviews and evaluation, Ambarisa prabhu selected the best of the best, the company he felt would be the most qualified and experienced to handle the needs of the TOVP project and bring the optimal results. A company that would offer outstanding professional construction oversight, superlative financial management and timely completion of the project to fulfill Srila Prabhupada’s dearmost vision of the Temple of the Vedic Planetarium.
With the services of Cushman and Wakefield on board Ambarisa prabhu and the TOVP Team are now fully confident that our combined goal of offering Srila Prabhupada the completed TOVP will be achieved by 2022. That year will not only celebrate the Grand Opening of the temple, but the most auspicious fiftieth anniversary of the Mayapur project as well. It will be a time of great rejoicing throughout ISKCON as Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s samkirtana movement reaches new heights of expansion and development that will have far-reaching effects into the future for generations to come. And the blessings of Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakur will undoubtedly be showered on one and all, as stated by Srila Prabhupada:
“If you all build this temple, Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakur will personally come and take you all back to Godhead.”
Now is the time we need your help the most to join the TOVP MISSION 22 MARATHON to complete the TOVP by 2022. The time is right, the place is right and the circumstance is right to offer your heartfelt support to establish the spiritual legacy of Sridhama Mayapur by helping to build the TOVP. If you have not yet made a pledge to support the TOVP or would like to make another, or if you can increase your pledge or your monthly pledge payments, please go to Seva Opportunities page now and do so. You and your family members for generations into the future will be the benefactors of such a seva:
“If the devotee offers something to the Lord, it acts for his own interest because whatever a devotee offers the Lord comes back in a quantity a million times greater than what was offered. One does not become a loser by giving to the Lord; one becomes a gainer by millions of times.”
Srila Prabhupada, Krsna Book, Ch. 81
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Why the TOVP Needs the help of a Project Management Consultancy?
1. Project Scale and Completion Timelines: The existing scope of the Base Superstructure approximating 6 lakhs (600,000 sq ft) was executed over nine years with a single Contractor, Gammon, who were also the coordinators for other miscellaneous works executed onsite. The new phase of Interior Fit-out (Finishing) would entail involving more than 20 new contractors, and additionally the completion is targeted in less than half the above time, or 3-4 years. This would result in a shortage of specialized TOVP staff with the industry expertise since at present the supervisory staff conversant with the latest construction techniques is not available. Hence, the PMC can add this expert augmentation to the existing team to deliver this aspect of the project.
2. Project Sequencing: The TOVP Project to date has been linear and sequential in its execution mode with minimum parallel and overlapping coordinated items. To complete the interior fit-out works most of the sections of construction will have to be coordinated with parallel and overlapping timelines and appropriate multi-directional overlapping sequencing of works. Currently this is a weakness that needs to be augmented in the existing process and system of construction. The PMC would enable this new methodology by introducing a management system to organize all the multiple, dependent aspects of fit-out works, properly sequencing them, and pro-actively tracking, monitoring and controlling the schedule.
3. Project History Documentation & Audit Compliance: An institutional project as prestigious as the TOVP would need historical documentation to ensure the best governance based practice, such as PMC governance, has been appointed within the process to execute the project. This documentation would always be vulnerable to audit reviews and cross verification from within the fraternity of ISKCON as well as other statutory bodies. It is hence extremely important that the documentation process become tougher, especially with the increase in the number of sub-contractors, vendors and suppliers inducted within the project.
4. Risk Sharing & Transfer: The TOVP, despite being the owners and clients, are currently holding the entire project risks due to in-house design and in-house construction management. With the increase in the numbers of sub-contractors, vendors and suppliers it is imperative that a PMC is appointed who will be in a position to also own the risk and provide a hierarchical risk transferring structure to ensure the risk is not with the client alone.
5. Segregation of Duties: The Client (TOVP) is kept limited only to a core vision team and provides vision, strategy and direction to both the Design Consultants and the PMC to deliver the project. There is a clear role definition between the Client, the Design Consultants and the PMC within the following well-defined categories:
- Client: The Client remains and behaves as Owners/Visionaries/Funders/Approvers of the Project.
- Design Consultant: They remain focused on performing their role of providing creative and functional design solutions to suit the aspirations and requirements of the Client.
- Project Management Consultants: The PMC behaves as the extended arms of the Client to Lead, Drive and Manage all aspects of the project. This would also include coordinating with all the vendors, managing the process, safety coordination, and sequencing to ensure the project is delivered on time. They would also provide peer review to the Design Consultants’ drawings for statutory & code compliances.
- Contractors: The Contractors becomes the implementation team under the direction provided by the PMC & Design Consultant.
6. Advantages of the Full-Fledged End to End PMC Model:
- Complete sense of Ownership and Risk is transferred and shared by the PMC Firm.
- Complete ownership is taken by the PMC for cost, time and quality aspirations of the client.
- Complete Audit Compliant Independent Reporting & Documentation by the PMC.
- Connectivity, clout and reputation of the PMC within the industry and construction market will help the Client to influence the vendors/suppliers chain to provide the most competitive rates.
- Technology enabled processes and systems enabled by the PMC would be added to the existing Client systems which will allow accurate tracking, control and management procedures.
- Since the sequencing is planned there would minimized cost impact due to wastage and re-work.
- The finances and time saved by utilizing a PMC to properly direct the project would easily cover the expenditure of their services.
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