The Beams team removed all the stress and matched me with a wonderful contractor."
Teresa
Queen's Park
On time and on budget. A real pleasure."
Eleanor
Stoke Newington
Completed our renovation project within budget and on time."
Evelyn
Bow East
What Project Management Support is
Every Beams renovation includes a build advisor. On the standard service they visit at the four agreed milestones, review the evidence your builder submits before you approve a payment, and step in when you and your builder can't resolve something between you.
Project Management Support upgrades that to weekly. Weekly site visits timed to the project's risk points rather than its milestones. Hands-on coordination on sequencing, suppliers and programme. And someone looking for problems before they surface, which is where most of the value sits.
What your build advisor does week to week
A weekly site meeting with an agenda and notes. A written progress report within two days of it. Site visits at every milestone plus whenever the programme needs one.
Responses the same working day. Variation pricing reviewed in three to five working days, so a change doesn't stall the job while everyone waits.
A risk register kept from pre-construction onwards, milestone evidence verified before you approve payment, and at the end a snag protocol, warranties collated into a handover pack, and check-ins at 30 and 90 days.
If something goes wrong, your build advisor works it through with the builder first. If that doesn't land it goes to our Operations Director, and if it still doesn't we can replace the builder.
Who actually runs the site
This is the part most project management services leave vague, so here it is plainly.
Your builder runs the site. They are the Principal Contractor, they hold the legal responsibility for health and safety and for delivering the work, and that does not change when you add Project Management Support.
Your build advisor is on your side of the table. They check, coordinate, verify and escalate. They do not instruct your builder's trades or take over the contract, because a project manager who cuts across the building contract creates more problems than they solve.
That split matters. The alternative models are a builder who manages themselves, where nobody independent is checking, or a project manager who takes the contract on and becomes the thing being checked. This is neither.
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What it costs
Project Management Support is 20% of build cost.
Published figures for renovation project management in the UK run from 10% to 20%, most commonly 15% to 20%. Almost nobody states what they're charging a percentage of, and the broader the base, the more the headline number flatters. Ours is one number on one basis, and no Beams project management fee is negotiable or tiered.
Extra site visits beyond the agreed schedule, a clerk of works, extended snag management or additional designer and engineer input are priced separately, only if you ask for them, and itemised on the invoice.
When it's worth it, and when it isn't
It tends to make sense on a whole home or a major extension, on projects with several specialist trades sequencing together, on heritage or conservation work, and when you won't be on site much yourself because you're working, abroad or have moved out.
The standard service is the right call on a single room or a modest scope, when you're around day to day, and when you'd rather run the builder relationship yourself and keep the cost down.
Most Beams customers are on the standard service and most of those projects go well. This is an upgrade for the situations where the extra structure earns its fee.
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