Integrated Project Management

Gerhart uses Building information modelling (BIM)

Building information modelling (BIM) is a collaborative way of working, which provides everyone working on the project with accessible, accurate data. It leads to better communication, greater efficiency, more precise programmes and estimating and reduced risk.

Gerhart will produce an accurate three-dimensional virtual version of your project containing every detail. By producing a three-dimensional model in advance of master-planning, and design/build construction, we make sure that every aspect of the design is right before we get on site.

The technology links up with mobile devices in the field, such as iPads, enabling people on site to access the model and the latest plans. This translates into big cost savings from dramatically fewer defects, and a shorter installation period.

Mobile technology also speeds up the quality assurance and sign-off processes. It cuts down on paperwork and provides evidence that faults have been fixed, all at the press of a button.

Bim software integrates with Gerhart project management software underpinned by Icsbusinessbox.

Gerhart is involved in all levels of research with respect to sustainable and environmental design for spaces, buildings, neighbourhoods and cities. Research is both singular and collaborative with a proven track record of working with industrial and academic partners on singular and collaborative research projects.

We are continuously researching new methodologies and technologies. This includes windows, renewable energy technology, green facades, smart facades/envelopes and the modelling of processes and flows, to mention a few.

MASTERPLANNING
To bring design, operation and the smart city together, we are creating decision support tools for city architects and urban planners with respect to how to design their city and its subsystems at any stage of the cities life.

This includes tools to inform urban development plans, tools to inform and incentivise the integration of Renewable Energy Technologies and ICT and Control Technologies, and tools to optimise an existing cities systems and networks.

Our research for retrofit design and decision making focuses on how to use simulation to adapt and upgrade existing buildings to be sustainable and energy efficient throughout their lifetime.

The aim is to provide tools that will assess the way in which current buildings are operated and help find solutions that will be adaptable over time, as well as for performance contracting.

REAL-TIME CONTROL
Our research focuses on how the simulation environment can be exploited to intelligently control the building. This includes investigation into Model Based Control for Fault Detection Identification Analysis, Optimisation of the Building while in use and Predictive Control based on future weather data.

The aim is to provide appropriate and accurate information to allow Energy Managers to understand where inefficiencies are present and mitigate or eradicate these inefficiencies completely. This information will help to plan energy efficiency actions based on actual energy production and consumption, presented as real savings and end-user’s comfort levels.

SMART CITIES
With a focus on how a city can operate intelligently, we are investigating the interactions between a portfolio of buildings, the electricity grid and Renewable Energy Technologies.

This includes demand response and tariff analysis and examining the interactions and connections of buildings at district level. Further investigation into the simulation of water and waste networks to maximise energy efficiency is also being carried out along with investigations into transport routes and the electric vehicle networks. The ultimate aim is to understand how the city performs as a set of sub-systems.

As part of our Gerhart alliance program,we will work closely with Gardiner and Theobald.

We expect objectives and goals of a programme to be typically at a strategic level so that the client organisation achieves benefits and improvements in its business operation. We start with strong leadership in our team to set the tone of cooperation, collaboration and open communication with all stakeholders to the programme. We understand the factors that drive programme success, providing the knowledge and tools for effective implementation that enable all resources to be in place for successful delivery.

Our primary programme management service allows clients to choose services from a menu including:

> Programme/project definition (including processes and procedures)
> Programme management office
> Schedule management
> Projects controls (schedule, budget and cost control)
> Contract management of the delivery teams
> Stakeholder and communications management
> Building information modelling development and integration
> Sustainability
> Logistics and phasing
> Scope and change management
> Risk and opportunity management
> Procurement and supply chain management
> Safety management
> Quality management
> Human resource management
> Construction management of the on-site operation teams

Agile project management is a value-driven approach that allows Project Managers to deliver high-priority, high-quality work to their stakeholders. It’s nothing like the plodding, costly and error-prone approach to project management, which has delivered inconsistent results for years.

Software projects change constantly. When customers are expected to finalise requirements before they can test-drive the prototypes, overhead and long delays often cripple the project. Agile Project Management is about embracing change, even late in the development stage. It’s about delivering the features with the greatest business value first, and having the real-time information to tightly manage cost, time and scope.

New technologies and innovations are changing the building landscape and making smart buildings more efficient. In particular, the adoption of sophisticated energy management systems in commercial buildings has been proven to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. The ability of these systems to process and analyze huge volumes of energy-related data has shifted the way buildings are designed, built, and operated, but it has also proven challenging for the people who operate buildings on a daily basis. Recent economic conditions have caused building owners to cut back on both the numbers and types of personnel that they hire, shifting operational priorities from efficiency generating projects to those that are an absolute necessity for the daily maintenance of the building. Under these conditions, building energy management systems become an afterthought, inhibiting their true value and limiting their potential return on investment.

Smart building managed service providers have stepped to the fore to address these challenges for building owners and managers. These managed service vendors work closely with clients, effectively becoming an extension of the building’s own staff. The competitive landscape for smart building managed services is evolving at a quick pace driven by new technologies, big data, and a wide variety of service models. Large established market players and OEMs such as Johnson Controls, Siemens, and Schneider Electric have a strong foothold in managed services. More focused companies such as Ecova and Pacific Controls have leveraged their independence from the larger OEMs to build strong relationships with their clients, while large IT companies such as IBM and HP have become strong competitors as well.

This Pike Research report examines the global smart building managed services market trends, along with opportunities and challenges, business strategies, and key industry players. The report examines the technology issues in the smart building managed services market and includes profiles of 18 vendors. Market forecasts include total market growth from 2012 through 2020, market share and growth rate comparisons, and projections for five world regions.

Gerhart will provide you with first class services that are essential to the management of your real estate assets, utilising the entire group's know-how to improve the profitability of your investments and long term value while reducing the cost of your assets and maximise the quality of work environments.

> We use cloud based technology to control your building in realtime
> Provide value-added services to stakeholders
> Ensure physical and technical maintenance of your building
> Make your building sustainable and energy efficient
> Increase the value of your asset

Gerhart Capital is a division of the Gerhart Group specialising in the financing of direct & indirect real estate investments.

We have a number of private and commercial investors that we have successfully joint ventured with over the last ten years. We will be happy to discuss the funding of your project on the completion of confidential and non disclosure documentation.

> Gerhart invests alongside our clients – aligned and incentivised in all the transactions we promote
> Accountability – our capital and reputation are always on the line
> Gerhart has internal legal and audit professionals that have recognised credibility world wide
> Gerhart Excellence – we strive to be the best in all investments
> Integrity – transparency is key
> Entrepreneurial approach – enables us to identify opportunities overlooked by others
> Our clients come first
> Our people are dedicated, talented and high achievers
> Gerhart carefully review and manage risk
> Our goal is to provide superior returns

The Gerhart Group are working towards a sustainable future. While standard building practices are guided by short term economic considerations, sustainable construction is based on best practices which emphasize long term affordability, quality and efficiency. At each stage of the life cycle of the building, it increases comfort and quality of life, while decreasing negative environmental impacts and increasing the economic sustainability of the project.

A Gerhart building designed and constructed in a sustainable way minimizes the use of water, raw materials, energy, land … over the whole life cycle of the building. The global impact of the building sector on environment

The Earth’s ecosystems are now at a critical stage: they are not only being severely damaged but human activity currently leads to irreversible losses of critical (i.e. life-supporting) ecosystem functions. Buildings and construction works have the largest single share in global resource use and pollution emission. In OECD countries the built environment is responsible for around 25-40% of total energy use, 30% of raw material use, 30-40% of global greenhouse gas emissions and for 30 to 40% of solid waste generation.

Gerhart will actively promote Green Efficient Building as a best in class activity as part of improving the central role of buildings in people's livesIn addition, in OECD countries, people spend almost 90% of their life inside buildings. In the United States, the annual cost of building-related sickness is estimated to be at $58 billion. Consequently, healthy and comfortable indoor environments contribute significantly to human health and well-being and offer a large potential for reducing ‘external’ costs to societies through lowering diseases.

The challenges of urban-ism Beyond individual buildings, poor patterns of building development often lead to congestion and inefficient use of land, resulting in greater energy consumption and travel time, loss of productivity, polluted runoff to surface water and waste-water treatment systems, loss of agricultural lands, fragmented habitats, and fiscal stress to local communities.

Smartflow is the clever engine that lies at the heart of icsbusinessbox. Gerhart uses Smartflow to drive intelligent efficiency as you use icsbusinessbox to manage your project.

With infinite configuration possibilities, Smartflow is key to delivering value to your project. Your organisation is proactive, with live data being monitored, updated and distributed through a combination of workflow based communication channels.

Smartflow scans icsbusinessbox twenty four hours a day which enables your project manager to concentrate on value added exercises that cannot be delivered by technology.

Smartflow delivers a customised, automated service which provides your project with a sophisticated level of integration and control.

Smartflow can also be used to notify employees of their involvement in a particular project. For example, Smartflow can communicate with a project manager, informing them that they are due to contribute to a upcoming milestone.

Not only will this feature provide the project manager with a set of instructions and relevant information, but our Smartflow emails have the ability to attach documents, such as drawings ,charts etc, thus providing the project manager with the information and instructions required to carry out the task, all without any human intervention.

Smartflow aligns the awareness and understanding of Gerhart projects by communicating incremental amendments in real time. The efficient distribution of timely emails allows drawings for the sound collaboration between project managers, increasing productivity