See link below for one of our online adverts on Planning Planet:

We are looking for 2 to 3 planning professionals to permanently join our consulting team over the next few months. So if you think you have the relevant skills and experience, apply now.

Ever wondered who, how, and what goes in to planning, organising, implementation and managing of a massive event like the Tour de France. Obviously the individual cycling teams have their own logistical nightmare to sort out, but what about the Event Organiser themselves.

A whole year goes into the planning of this 3 week race, and Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO) are the legendary company that successfully does it year in and year out.

There’s the organisation of physical requirements like: Accommodation & Transport, Infrastructure & Equipment, Transmission & Telecommunication, Security & Access Control, Promotion & Signage, but there’s also the intangible arrangements for Insurances, broadcast licesensing, Marketing, merchandising, etc.

In terms of planning, the tour de france when measured against construction projects, would be like the largest ever shutdown project ever to be planned.

We can only imagine the number of line items to be tracked and the resource loading required.

We’d welcome the opportunity to have a crack at this Programme..what do you think they use, P6?

Following on from the resounding success of the Society
of Construction Law Australia’s (SoCLA) Inaugural Annual Conference and Annual Dinner held Perth (and sponsored by JCA) in June 2010, the Society of Construction Law of Australia takes great pleasure in inviting all to be a part of their 2nd Annual Conference
‘Rethinking Adversarialism’.
Construction law and dispute resolution practices in recent decades have increasingly recognised the importance of
co-operation and trust between project parties, at the expense of a traditional, adversarial approach. How and to what extent
will this trend continue and what are its implications?
SoCLA Conference 2011 will be held from 5–7 August 2011 at the Sofitel Brisbane Central, Queensland, and we hope you
will take advantage of the opportunity to enjoy the city and its surrounds. Brisbane offers the very best in food, wine, arts,
entertainment and major sporting events. Also within an hour’s drive of Brisbane are the famous and pristine Gold Coast and
Sunshine Coast beaches.

JCA looks to be represented at this year Conference, and encourages others with an vested interest in Construction Law to also attend.

Vote now HERE:

JCA’s are pleased to announce that it has thrown it’s support behind the Society of Construction Law’s Inaugural Australian Conference, to be held in Perth. JCA has formalised sponsorship of the Conference’s Gala Dinner, and looks forward to participating in the conference with it’s peers.

The Society of construction Law is the peak body representing legal professionals within the construction industry (ie members involved in Dispute Resolution, Arbitration, Litigation, Adjudication). Established in the UK in 1983, the society is worldwide, only recently establishing a chapter in Australia with delegates covering all capital cities.

With the inaugural conference being held in Perth next month, JCA was keen to support the event, and help showcase Perth’s local expertise to the national delgates in attendance.

JCA, Western Australia’s preeminant Project Planning and Forensic planning experts, has members of the Society in it’s ranks who will be also be represented throughout the conference.

JCA, with 30 years of project planning experience, have provided expert forensic planning (delay and disruption analysis) for numerous projects, including acting as experts in Arbitration/Litigation.

We wish the Society success in it’s inaugural Australian conference

30 years is a long time to be in business, by any measure.

JCA are proud to have been delivering professional project planning and scheduling services to the construction and engineering sector for the last 30 year period.

In 1980 when our founder (Mr James “Father-time” Clark) started this little concern, he thought he’d only try out this new computerised construction programming for a year or two, as he wasn’t sure that the industry would be ready for it. How wrong he was !

Not only did the industry wake up to the importance of project planning, the technology and legal importance of project planning have escalated rapidly over that time, meaning that proper professional project planning for the Construction & Engineering sector is here to stay.

We will be offering some special limited discounts to our clients over the next month to celebrate this milestone, so look out for these.

We look forward to the next years.

JCA have recently become members of the Master Builders Association of Western Australia following fruitfull discussion between both parties. It seems both agree that strong synergies exist between the two, with MBA keen to arm their members with the skills available through JCA (both consulting and training services).

We are in the process of formulating specific Project Planning courses to be held in MBA’s West Perth offices, for MBA members. Details will be announced shortly.

JCA will also offer an exclusive special for MBA WA members. Details of this will also be announced shortly.

JCA will also be contributing various articles for MBA WA for inclusion in their newsletters and website, on matter pertaining planning. ie “planning for success” and “Forensic (Delay and Disruption) Planning”.

Who has a crystal ball, anyone ? anyone ?…

We’ll leave the forecasting to the experts, but at JCA we’re slowly starting to see some signs of life returning to our little market sector, and anecdotally, we are hearing of alot of upside from our client body.

At JCA we are gearing ourselves to service this potential upswing, whilst being cautiously mindfull that talk doesn’t automatically equate to actual work in hand. All the same we are ready to provide our expert planning services to our clients. Our Forensic team last year welcomed Mr Anders Axelson, a skilled planning profesional with a legal background, who was instrumental (with others) in setting up the Australian Chapter of the Society of Construction Law.

Our Building and Engineering Planning consultants have also been busy honing their skills, and are ready for action.

We look forward to a busy year.

The above video in no way is meant to insult any consultants or govt departments working on the Education Revolution Stimulus Package projects, and is not a claim that these projects have been poorly managed.

Well the most anticipated announcement on the West Australian and National agenda finally occurred.

The worst hidden secret (will they or won’t they give the green light) was announced to fan-fare on Monday 14th September 2009. So the Gorgon Team have finally confirmed the speculation that the project (valued at A$43billion) will proceed.

Although for WA contracting businesses much of the value of works likely to be committed locally has already been committed or about to be. By far the biggest value of contract awards will be to overseas supplier/contractor/designers. Having said that some big contracts are still to be let (and open to local contractor’s - we wish them luck).

We at JCA have already had the pleasure of being involved in the project for local civil contractors for forward work contracts, and like many other local consulting firms will be looking to assist on the project throughout the construction life.