VDDB provides project control services. Successful control of projects is part science, part art, but most of all the ability to manage data and information such that it forms visible patterns and is shaped to become usable for decision-making. Information management is therefore a key concept in our thinking and to us, a normal way of working.
It is not the big do-it-all so called system that enables data to become useful information, but rather the ability to use the powerful tools that is available to the modern information manager; and without losing sight of common sense and the vast information handling experience of centuries. Manual is not a swear word, nor is pen and paper, but as we travel in sophisticated motorised vehicles today, and use mobile phones and have many other things of technological tooling at our disposal, the powerful information and communication tools must be used.
Saamwerk.co.za is an example of the participation at the forefront of harnessing the latest tooling, which has in fact taken the magnitude of information warehouses and processing plants, of VDDB for project information management.
The core service of project cost management remains very active in our service offering, and it extends increasingly to project controls, information management and business process management.
Project cost management (PCM) embraces cost structuring, quantity surveying, cost accounting, budget management, change management, contingency application and everything necessary to maintain a project cost ledger.
“The right information at the right place at the right time”
We work in teams, combining the best traditional quantity surveying skills with accounting and information management.
This skills combination enables us to provide project information management (PIM) and complete business process management (BPM) systems.
Services are delivered to a variety of projects for mining and industrial client and range from performing a particular task such as providing a bill of quantities to taking charge of a comprehensive cost structuring, capital estimating and project cost management service through to final accounts and close-out.
