Method
Projects don't drift off line all at once. Neither does control.
Five stages, one fixed reference. The MPS method is how coordination against a reference line becomes daily practice rather than a slogan.
The five-stage sequence
Strategy
Establish the reference line: what the project must achieve, how it will be governed, and who decides what — before commitments harden.
- Project charter, governance, and reporting structure
- Delivery model and contracting strategy
- Programme baseline and budget alignment
- Team mobilization and authority mapping
Design
Hold the design to the brief and the brief to the owner — aligning consultants, deliverables, and interfaces to one standard.
- Design management and consultant coordination
- Value engineering with intent protected
- Interface resolution across disciplines
Procurement
Take the strategy to the market with structures that minimize disputes and put the right contractors on the right packages.
- Tender management and contractor selection
- FIDIC-grounded contract structures
- Risk registers that drive decisions, not paperwork
Construction
Site-based leadership where the project is actually won: supervision, quality, safety, and progress held against the line.
- Supervision team leadership and contractor performance
- QA/QC and technical compliance
- HSE governance
- Progress, cost, and change control with transparent reporting
Handover
Finish properly: commissioning, documentation, claims resolution, and an operator ready to take the keys.
- Commissioning and defect management
- Operator readiness and brand-standard compliance
- Claims and final account resolution
- Handover documentation and lessons captured
Standing disciplines
Present in every stage. Non-negotiable.
- Cost
- Budget stewardship and value engineering without erosion of intent
- Schedule
- Programme logic, critical-path discipline, early-warning reporting
- Quality
- Disciplined QA/QC against contract documents and design intent
- Risk
- Identification and mitigation across design, procurement, and execution
- HSE
- Safety leadership embedded in site culture, not appended to it
- Stakeholders
- Owners, authorities, consultants, contractors, and operators held to one line