Zada Project Services
Zada Project Services provides professional advice to organizations in the areas of Oil & Gas (Upstream, Downstream and LNG), Energy (Power Generation, Transmission and Distribution) and Infrastructure.
The company core activitiesare:
- Project Assessment
- Planning
- Cost Control
- Risk Management
- Risk Analysis
The Company has successfully assisted Clients of different nature; i.e. Contractors, Operators and Investors.
The following knowledge basis are used and referenced in the execution of the work:
- Australian Standards.
- AACE Recommended practices.
- PMBOK (Project Management Book Of Knowledge).
- Common Industry practices.
The Company experience spans through projects at different stages (Basis of Design, FEED and Execute) supporting:
- Feasibility Studies
- Final Investment Decisions
- Interim Execution Assessment
- Corporate Assessment
Zada Project Services assists Clients who require a Project Assessment through the following tasks:
- Estimate and Forecast reviews to assess the level of confidence, completeness and achievability.
- Verifications that the approved Scope of Work is correctly represented in the estimates and forecasts.
- In-depth verification of the Progress Achieved and Forecast to Complete
- Schedule linked Cash Flows.
- Verifications against existing industry benchmarks.
According to Clients requirements the Company can perform Project Audits:
- Audit ongoing operations versus existing approved procedures and Contract requirement
- Review Project Management Plans, Processes and Flow Diagrams.
- Integrity assessment of Change Controls processes and inclusion in the estimates and forecasts.
Planning is one of the Core Strength of Zada Project Services. The Company can assist Clients’ Planning efforts through:
- Verification that Scopes of Work are properly covered through the different schedule levels.
- Setting-up and verification of Work Breakdown Structures.
- Development of different schedule levels (From Level 0 to Level 4 and below).
- Analysis and identification of key milestones and interfaces.
- Manpower assessment through schedule driven resource loading.
- Schedule health checks to verify integrity and consistency of activities and logic.
- Definition of Progress Measurement systems (Earned Value).
- S-Curves preparation and maintenance.
- Preparation of Planning Basis Documents (Schedule Basis Memorandum).
Zada Project Services provides tracking of the ongoing costs of a project and forecast the total expenditure at the end of such project by:
- Monitoring expenditures against initial budget
- Measuring variances from authorized budgets (Change Orders) and review action to be taken
- Forecast potential over-expenditure in a timely manner to enable decisions to minimize cost impact.
- Provide Management with routine reports showing the actual expenditure and expected final cost forecast to allow action to be taken accordingly.
Zada Holdings provides Estimating services in both Greenfield and Brownfield projects though its professional team of Estimators.
The team ensures that the Estimate provided represents real implementation/construction cost. Zada provides fully costed estimates with a level of definition analogue to the level of definition of the Project; i.e. Order Of Magnitude and Classes 1 to 4 as defined in the AACE standards.
The Estimate package is complete and comprehensive with a detailed list of labour, plants, materials, take-offs/bill of quantities to develop a proper baseline and track the projects.
Zada Project Services assists Clients in the Area of Risk Management through the following key activities:
- Set-up and/or review Risk Matrixes covering the different risk areas (Cost, Schedule, Safety, Integrity, Reputation, etc).
- Define or audit the existing Risk Management processes to verify that risks are effectively managed.
- Definition of mitigated and unmitigated risk profiles, residual risks and action tracking.
- Visual and graphic aids (for example bow tie diagrams) to facilitate risk management.
Zada Project Services has the knowledge and ability to perform Cost and Schedule Risk Analysis.
At high level the process followed goes through:
- Numerical Cost and Schedule Risk Analysis using Montecarlo simulations.
- Definition of P10, P50 and P90 outcomes and allocation of the deterministic estimates.
- Definition of required contingencies to achieve the desired probability of outcomes.
- Verification of the existing project contingencies.
Community Activities
Zada Holdings has been involved with Visibility and Vision Australia in several community projects.
Recently Zada sponsored the Mannequins Mosaic Project by the Mosaic group of Visibility. Such project involved two mannequins cover in beautiful mosaic pieces done by the clients and volunteers in Visibility.
Zada has also designed and 3D printed tactile aid tools for Vision Australia. The purpose was to assist its vision impaired clients with learning task. Particular focus was given to assist visually impaired users to operate smart phones and assist kids to learn the Braille system.
Such aids have been donated to Vision Australia.
Zada
2006-2018
CEO and Founder
Rufus
2020
PR and Security Manager