Name: Phillip Clarke MCIOB
Employer: Lend Lease
Project: One New Change, London, EC4
If ever a project needed a safe pair of hands it was this one. It found them in Phillip Clarke, who managed out the substantial risk on a contract worth a quarter of a billion pounds.
With 100 different Lend Lease staff onsite at some time, as well as 35 subcontractors and countless professionals, he established the robust systems needed for change control and information distribution. He set up clear lines of control and communication, promoting a respectful and non-adversarial culture that successfully mediated the inevitable clash of ideas.
He steered the project through a controlled process of value management whose fruits were extensive use of 3D design for the frame, the cladding and the M&E, and the decision to construct the basement top-down. His exemplary leadership in establishing the interfacing design principles for the ground source energy loops to be installed in the structural piles settled the big issues.
And when late utility diversions, demolition hold-ups, an archaeological investigation and the introduction of piled caissons for the main cores left the project facing a 14-week delay, he threw himself into pulling the time back. He reprogrammed and resequenced energetically, resetting the cladding, M&E and fit-out. He finished in the time frame the client needed, with superb quality and within budget.
Value: £260m