Because business change is generated through projects, capable project management is key to ongoing success. Arup delivers projects intelligently and with a focus on business outcomes, not just a finished job.
Finishing projects to the required time, cost and quality is vital. Arup goes further, taking a creative approach to project and programme management that often generates innovative solutions.
Arup's 500 project managers around the world have strong technical backgrounds. With well-developed interpersonal and leadership skills, they add value, not bureaucracy. Seeking to shape a better world is what sets the Arup project manager apart.
Innovative, independent and sustainable
Arup's culture encourages innovation and a focus on environmental and social sustainability. An independent firm, Arup is trusted by clients to provide the best advice for any project.
Strategic advice
The firm advises from strategic level to programme and project management, including project delivery. Arup's management and project consultancy expertise makes it ideally placed to act for clients as trusted agent and project adviser.
Programme management
The key link between strategic corporate objectives and project-level activity, programme management aligns business activities with change initiatives. By treating change management as an integral part of the agenda, Arup provides a comprehensive service to the benefit of clients' businesses.
Project delivery
Arup's design management service includes managing professional designers, providing the client with a single point of management. The firm also offers construction management, including contract administration.
Technical edge
Composed of professionally qualified project managers, Arup's team also has access to world-class technical skills from within the firm. This allows the team to offer expertise at all stages of a project and reduces the need to seek external technical input, so minimising bureaucracy.
Arup's project specialists managed the firm’s multidisciplinary design teams in Sydney, London and Beijing to produce the iconic and innovative National Aquatics Center ('Water Cube'). They managed approval both for the client organisation and for local authorities.
Specialist skills
Meeting clients' project management needs requires a wide range of specialist skills. Arup's project management services include PPP technical advisory services, risk management, value management, relationship management, scheduling, 3D, 4D and 5D modelling, cost planning, procurement advice and change management services. The firm also offers Safety in Design (SiD) coordination and safety management as part of its compliance service. Tailored online project management tools and systems complete the offering.
Global network
Arup provides its skills to clients around the world – its project managers are connected by a global knowledge management system. A Deutsche Bank Global Program Partner, the firm is able to fulfil multinational requirements in a consistent way, thanks to its worldwide network.
Arup offers a single point of consulting service, including broader technical and management expertise. Clients can also make use of a stand-alone service, providing expertise in specific areas.
Combining innovative insight, a pragmatic approach founded on deep technical understanding and industry experience, Arup offers expertise at a strategic, programme and project level.