Project management · Construction management
I coordinate the whole project: the design team, the programme, the budget and the works on site. You make the decisions; I make sure they arrive properly defined, on time and within budget.
I act as your owner’s representative with architects, engineers, interior designers and contractors. One point of contact for the entire project.
Renovation, refurbishment and new build in Ibiza (Eivissa), Mallorca and Menorca. Technical architect, Reg. No. 386.
What the service covers
A project goes wrong when one of these five is neglected. That is why I run them in parallel from day one.
The basis of the work is constant communication with the client, the consultants and the contractors. I prepare a regular project report: a photographic record of progress on site, a summary of how the design is evolving with the options and decisions still open, and the construction matters that need your call.
What you get · Knowing exactly where your project stands without setting foot on site.From the earliest stages I coordinate every consultant involved — architecture, interior design, engineering, acoustics, audiovisual, landscaping, kitchen — so that all the information is delivered in line with your brief and properly signed off before it is built. I also review coherence between documents and partial projects to avoid issues at later stages.
What you get · A design closed before work starts, not improvised on site.I produce a design programme setting out the calendar for each consultant’s partial project, and a detailed construction programme, updated regularly, covering every trade and the milestones needed to complete on time.
What you get · A realistic programme built around the milestones that actually drive handover.All project costs sit in a development appraisal that you receive regularly for a complete overview. From the earliest stage it carries an estimate based on the general concept, replaced by real costs as the design and the contracts take shape. I prepare a complete bill of quantities so that every item is included and extra costs are avoided as far as possible.
What you get · Knowing at all times what has been spent and what is left.I split the bill of quantities into packages — brickwork, MEP, aluminium windows, joinery — and take each one to tender, requesting three quotations from different companies so that you pay a fair market price. Packages are contracted directly between you and each specialist firm, and my technical team coordinates them on site.
What you get · Real cost efficiency by avoiding a main contractor that marks up its subcontractors.Why packages
The usual model
You hire one company that subcontracts every other trade.
My model
Each trade is contracted directly with you and I coordinate the whole.
Who it is for
You have bought a villa, a traditional finca or an apartment and need someone to define the scope, obtain comparable bids and supervise the works.
You cannot visit the site every week and need reports with photographs, progress and pending decisions to follow it from wherever you are.
New build from excavation to handover, with structure, services, pool and garden coordinated as one.
You need independent cost control: valuations reviewed, variations assessed and contractor bids compared.
Why a local building engineer
A project manager who flies into Ibiza for your job starts from zero. A technical architect who has worked on the island for twenty years knows things that are written down nowhere — and it shows in the price and in the programme.
Who meets deadlines, who finishes properly, who works clean and who inflates the price of variations. That is not in any directory: it is learned project by project.
Every town hall on the island applies its own criteria. Knowing them keeps a permit application from stalling for months over a badly framed document.
Something unexpected gets resolved the same day, on site — not over the phone, and not at next month’s visit.
When a construction problem appears, the argument is a technical one. Being able to propose the solution on site, with authority and a signature behind it, is what unblocks a situation.
Testimonials
We hired Aran to find the plot. She found us an architect, checked every measurement and ran a tender with three contractors until we chose one.
Throughout the works she looked after us: she reviewed every new price the contractor put forward and warned us in advance. That gave us real reassurance, and it let us organise the payments with our bank.
We renovated our home starting with the bathrooms. Aran helped us choose an interior designer and find the design we liked, and from that design she produced the survey drawings and the quantities.
Shall we talk about your project?