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Client: McCormick Middle East FZE
Location: Jebel Ali Free Zone, Dubai
Project Value: AED 27 million
Purpose: Project management services for new build facility
Project Background
McCormick is a spice blend production company with factories in the US, UK and Europe supplying food manufacturing companies worldwide. McCormick’s business in the Middle East was growing and they required a new office and production facility to supply their customers in this region. The client had employed a contractor to design and build the facility, however without any local knowledge or in-house construction expertise they employed Cavendish Maxwell’s services.
Our Services
Conduct a full contract review to ensure contract terms were fair.
Inspect the tender package and conduct a full design review of the proposed drawings to identify the risk of variations to the client and establish the quality of design for their needs.
Project management of the work on site to ensure compliance with proposed drawings, quality of workmanship and adherence to the project programme.
Valuing works completed on site against submitted payment requests and issuing payment verifications.
Snagging the completed facility and assisting the client in winding up the contract.
Client Benefits
Impartial, transparent and skilled management and reporting mechanism provided ensuring adherence with the contract terms.
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P P Varghese
MSc
Partner, Strategy and Consulting
P P Varghese leads Cavendish Maxwell’s strategy and consulting team. Varghese comes with over 17 years’ experience gained through advising government, private and institutional clients on single-use, mixed-use, standalone, and master planned projects. He has been exposed to consulting and operations functions with his expertise spanning development planning and strategy, cost-benefit analysis, operational reviews and monitoring, hotel operator search and negotiations, as well as arbitration support and dispute resolution for hotel management agreements.
In his previous role, Varghese served as Partner - Real Estate Strategy and Consulting at Knight Frank Middle East. There he was responsible for advising clients on real estate development strategy, optimising department processes to enhance revenue, and developing client acquisition and retention strategies.
At Cavendish Maxwell, Varghese will lead an expert team that provides development advisory, feasibility, portfolio analysis and real estate research for all real estate asset classes and will identify new growth opportunities for the business.
Varghese is a Master of Management in Hospitality, majoring in real estate investments and finance from the Cornell School of Hotel Administration, Cornell University, New York.
Paul Barker
BSc (Hons), MRICS
Partner, Commercial Valuation
Paul has 20 years of experience in valuation and consultancy services and has worked in leading international practices across the UAE, Oman, Europe and the UK.
His professional knowledge encompasses all property asset classes including large, complex master plan developments of mixed-use properties in office, retail, industrial, leisure, hospitality and residential sectors. Paul is professionally qualified to value minerals, waste and recycling properties as well as environmental land considerations.
Paul’s client portfolio includes international and local banks, lending institutions, developers, investors, owner occupiers as well as accountants, legal firms and insolvency practitioners. As joint head of the Commercial Valuation department he is responsible for valuations of all property types. He ensures quality assurance and provides timely RICS Red Book/International Valuation Standard Council (IVSC) standard reports.