Within scope, without surprises. Program & Project Management

Within scope,

without surprises

Number of dollars and days Toronto’s York University Research Tower ran over budget and schedule—another project we helped a client deliver to a predictable outcome.

Projects, when successfully delivered,

can strengthen your organization

and the communities you serve.

However, we all know that projects

can be full of surprises—escalating

costs, schedule delays, scope creep,

or worse. But what if your project

Our community of program and project management specialists is passionate about achieving predictable project outcomes for our clients. By taking on projects as if they were our own, our business, technical, and project management experts work with you to strategize, plan, and implement projects that help you achieve your organization’s objectives.

Our award-winning team has managed thousands of projects across all sectors— buildings like hospitals, airports, and entire university campuses; critical infrastructure such as mass transit and water treatment facilities; energy and resource assignments that include mines and wind farms. We know from experience that delivering a complex project without surprises doesn’t mean there won’t be challenges. But our creative approaches to strategy, planning, and controls can head off most problems and provide early warnings on the rest, meaning you can manage with confidence and without crisis.

Achieving

predictable

project outcomes

$30 million

On the Edmonton Clinic Health Academy project, we led a value analysis process that saved our client upwards of $30 million without compromising user programs or major design elements.

University of Alberta Edmonton Clinic Health Academy | Edmonton, AB | Architect: HOK / Stantec Architecture | Targeting LEED® _Silver

On Edmonton’s South Light Rail Transit Extension project, we managed over 80 contract packages during the 11-year, $700 million program, which we delivered on time and on budget.

Program and project strategy services

Our project strategy services help turn your business objectives into a business case that your board or senior leaders can approve. We start by addressing the fundamental question to your success: Is this the right project? Answering this question might require market and funding research, preliminary scoping, or feasibility studies. You may need to align stakeholders around a project’s expectations or determine its optimum delivery strategy. Perhaps you have to establish a project governance structure that supports timely and informed decision-making and provides real leadership. Or you might want to analyze risks and figure out the best way to manage them. Whatever the case, we can help you determine the project or program that best aligns with your business objectives.

The right project

Fort McMurray Airport Authority Airport Expansion and Redevelopment | Fort McMurray, AB | Architect: McFarlane Green Architecture + Design

Integrated planning services

Winston Churchill said, “He who fails to plan is planning to fail.” Not on our watch! Once you have the right project approved, we can help you develop a project plan that will lay the foundation for success. We use a project chartering process that aligns project stakeholders to the primary project driver—typically one of cost, schedule, or scope. Our plans integrate budget, schedule, and scope and, through scope definition and work-breakdown structures, we detail everything that needs to be done and clearly identify who’s responsible for what. We help you assess project risks and determine how they’ll be managed, and we establish strategies for regulatory approvals and contracting for procurement and construction.

Our integrated project plans also include an approach to scope control based on a clear project definition and front-end planning using stage gates. This way, you can implement your project feeling confident that your plan will help to keep your project both on track and aligned with your business objectives.

The right plan

A Construction Industry Institute study of 609 projects valued at over $35 billion showed that front-end planning resulted in an average of ten percent lower costs, seven percent shorter schedules, and five percent fewer changes.

10% 7% 5%

Our 81-page project manual guided the multi-firm Courtice Water Pollution Control Plant team on a project we helped to deliver on time and $7.2 million below budget.

Program and project controls services

From planning through to project implementation, our controls services let you stay on top of scope, cost, schedule, changes, contingency, and workflow. They help you manage planning, design, procurement, construction, and commissioning. They provide predictive cost forecasting and trending. And they help you monitor and manage risk, all with the help of project management systems and processes chosen to meet your specific needs. This way, if challenges do arise, you can make timely and informed decisions about what to do. But don’t ask us. Ask our client, Janice Oliver, the now-retired executive director of the Canadian Opera House Corporation: “Stantec’s project controls processes enabled us to see at all times where we were and where we were going.”

The right control

Courtice Water Pollution Control Plant and Related Infrastructure | Courtice, ON | Architect: CH2M Hill

Forming a project community

Every client is different, but all client relationships share one thing in common. They’re built on trust. That’s why we often start with a small assignment—such as reviewing your management processes and capabilities, completing a business case, or conducting a health check on a project that’s underway. Once we establish some trust, we can scale our involvement up or down throughout the project life cycle, depending on your needs. From business and project strategists to planners, schedulers, and cost controllers to full-on program and project leaders, our specialists can help you with all your project management needs. We can also tap into Stantec’s network of technical, design, and scientific experts for advice. Whatever the extent of our involvement, we strive to contribute to a project community that is committed to achieving a predictable project outcome.

How we’re different

Focus on strategy

and planning

The best project managers know that projects succeed or fail based on the quality of work completed long before construction starts.

Blend of business and technical perspectives

Professionals, and Project Management Professionals. Together, we can help translate your business strategy into successfully delivered projects.

View that project management

is risk management

Your approach to project management must be closely aligned with your project expectations and risk tolerance level. This enables you to make informed decisions so you can deliver your project more predictably.

Access to Stantec’s global network

of subject matter experts

Our thousands of design and technical colleagues are experts in a wide variety of sectors and disciplines and can provide advice to help you make sound strategic decisions that are in the best interest of your project.

Experience

For over 40 years, we’ve been providing independent, objective advice to clients on thousands of complex major capital and operational projects in a diverse range of sectors.

Ability to bring clarity

out of complexity

Our approach helps transform a complex undertaking into a clear and precise plan that you can implement in an orderly fashion.

Design with community in mind

We’re active members of the communities we serve. That’s why at Stantec, we always

design with community in mind

.

We collaborate across disciplines and industries to bring buildings, energy and resource,

and infrastructure projects to life. Our work—professional consulting in planning, engineering,

architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, surveying, environmental sciences,

project management, and project economics—begins at the intersection of

community,

creativity,

and

client relationships.

Since 1954, our local strength, knowledge, and relationships, coupled with our world-class

expertise, have allowed us to go anywhere to meet our clients’ needs in more creative and

personalized ways. With a long-term commitment to the people and places we serve, Stantec

has the unique ability to

connect to projects on a personal level and

advance the quality of life

in communities

across the globe. Stantec trades on the TSX and the NYSE under the symbol STN.