A complete advisory and execution service for the discerning principal.

Most project failures are decided long before the first contractor arrives on site. AAPS's pre-project work resolves the structural questions — feasibility, jurisdiction, programme realism, cost envelope — when changing course is still inexpensive.

Deliverables typically include:

• Feasibility assessment — physical, regulatory and commercial viability of the proposed scope.
• Scope definition document — written articulation of what is, and is not, within scope.
• Regulatory framework review — applicable building permit pathway, copropriété or freeholder consents, fire and thermal compliance (in Monaco, Arrêté Ministériel n° 2018-1079; in the UK, the Building Safety Act 2022 and Approved Document framework).
• Preliminary cost plan — capital expenditure envelope with contingency analysis and benchmark commentary.
• Risk register — identification and weighting of project risks, with mitigation strategy.
• Procurement strategy — recommendation on contract form, tendering approach and consultant team composition.

Pre-project work may be engaged as a stand-alone advisory mandate where the principal wishes to test viability before proceeding.

AAPS coordinates the appointed architect, MEP engineer and specialist consultants — heritage, acoustic, audio-visual, lighting, joinery — so that the technical package presented to the contractor is complete, internally consistent and free of latent conflict.

Scope includes:

• Consultant team appointment — drafting and negotiation of consultant terms on behalf of the principal, where the principal has not pre-appointed.
• Drawing and specification review — coordination across disciplines, identification of clashes and unresolved details.
• Technical specification sign-off — formal review and acceptance gate before tender release.
• Design query resolution — management of contractor RFIs during execution, ensuring rapid and accurate response from the appropriate consultant.
• Change control — design changes proposed during construction are evaluated for cost, programme and downstream impact before authorisation.

The execution phase is where standards are either upheld or quietly compromised. AAPS is on site twice weekly throughout active construction, with formal inspection regimes designed around the trade sequence.

• Scheduled site inspections — minimum twice weekly during active construction, with attendance increased at critical stages (tanking, first fix, plaster sign-off, final fix, snagging).
• Workmanship and materials compliance — verification against specification, with non-conforming work documented and rectification tracked to closure.
• Photographic progress records — comprehensive dated photography of all works, archived and indexed by trade and area.
• Defect logging — live defect register maintained throughout the project, not deferred to handover.
• Trade coordination — interface management between trades, particularly at sequencing pinch-points and where one trade's work depends on another's prior completion.
• Programme tracking — weekly comparison of actual versus baseline programme, with recovery planning where slippage is identified.

Practical completion is not the end of the project; it is the beginning of a 90-day window in which the residence is genuinely commissioned. AAPS's involvement continues throughout.

• Practical-completion walk-through — formal inspection with the contractor against an agreed checklist.
• Snagging schedule preparation — comprehensive document setting out every item requiring rectification, with photographic evidence and target date.
• Compliance verification — electrical installation certification (BS 7671 or local equivalent), gas safety, fire detection commissioning, smoke ventilation and emergency lighting.
• Operation & maintenance documentation — assembly and verification of the O&M file: warranties, manuals, as-built drawings, commissioning certificates.
• Final account agreement — review and agreement of the contractor's final account, including assessment of variation claims.
• 90-day post-handover window — AAPS remains available to coordinate rectification of any latent defects discovered during the first 90 days of occupation.