After leaving College with Graphics A Levels and 2 City and Guilds in AutoCAD, Technical
Drawing was an immediate fit for Nick. He joined Novy Engineering, where he started to
produce 2D AutoCAD drawings alongside Board Draughtsman. Nick soon worked up to on-
site Coordinator.
Nick became UK and Overseas CAD Manager of Circa Services Ltd, a position he held for 7
years. After this time Nick decided to become a contractor in order to diversify his
experience. In this time, he worked with a variety of clients, ranging from Installation
Companies to Consultants. He was then able to gauge an understanding of the specific
needs of each, tailoring his work to suit the project.
Before Starting PCS Ltd Nick was working with WSP as the BIM Manager, helping to deliver a
complex 3D Project. The project involved managing resources between 6 offices, presenting
both UK and overseas challenges.
After many years running his own company ‘CADScope Ltd’, Nick decided to collaborate
with old colleague Geoff Mills, forming ‘Project Completion Services Ltd’. Nick and Geoff aim
to provide working solutions to drawing production. Due to the diverse demand of clients,
Microstation, CADDuct, Revit and BIM are all part of their services provided.
A solution for all your design needs
BIM/Revit
Building Information Modelling (BIM) involves representing a design as objects. Design tools allow the extracting of different views from a building model for drawing production and other uses.
Commisioning
Commissioning Management The successful implementation of the commissioning management role necessitates that a complimentary controlling documentation regime is instigated and maintained throughout the currency of the programme. Our knowledge in this field dictates that the essential elements of commissioning management are as summarised below: Verification that the test facilities provided are adequate for the intended […]
2D & 3D Conversions
We specialize in providing high quality paper to CAD conversions at the most economical rates and a quick turnaround time. Our technical expertise, state-of-the-art infrastructure and flexible production capacity guarantee the success of your conversion project.
Point Cloud Modelling
A point cloud is a set of vertices in a three-dimensional coordinate system and typically are intended to be representative of the external surface of an object. Most often created by 3D scanners, these devices measure in an automatic way a large number of points on the surface of an object.
Utility Mapping
Certainty of supply, environmental protection and efficiency of operations requires good basic data. Excavation damage can be largely avoided when reliable information regarding location and description of underground utility lines are available.
3D City Mapping
Three-dimensional models of urban environments are useful in a variety of applications. They are typically represented either as Digital Surface Models (DSM) or triangular 3D meshes. DSMs and 3D models can also be obtained from Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) or from airborne laser scans.
Marketing Media
Simple sale plans for single/multiple family /site plan in vector based software for easy scalability to suite various print/web sizes. • Colour floor plans • Colour sale plans for residential/retail using architect/developers • Colour sale plans for residential/retail • Interactive Floor plans • Architectural illustrations
Water Treatment
Pre-construction phase. Offsite assembly and pressure testing. Air testing (Pneumatic) Water testing (Hydraulic) Offsite pressure testing, particularly involving the use of water, is often the first stage at which bacteriological contamination can occur, so early precautions are necessary to avoid problems. Construction phase. On-site assembly, pressure testing and preservation. On-site pressure testing (Pneumatic and Hydraulic) […]
About Us
Project Completion Services Ltd. was formed by Nicholas Aldridge and Geoff Mills to consolidate considerable experience in both Drawing Production and Commissioning Management into a handover solution for the construction industry.
Project Completion Services include Drawing production/management, Commissioning, Water treatment, Documentation management and O&M Manuals for projects both, in the UK and overseas.
Any industry demands value for money and we feel that a company like ours, with limited overheads can offer a high standard of expertise and service that companies which have been established long before us will find difficult to match.
As a modern, dynamic and young company, we are confident that we can offer you all the services that require and would appreciate consideration on your current and future contracts.
Services
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BIM/Revit
Building Information Modelling (BIM) is the process of generating and managing building data during its life cycle. BIM involves representing a design as objects – vague and undefined, generic or product-specific, solid shapes or void-space oriented (like the shape of a room), that carry their geometry, relations and attributes. BIM design tools allow the extracting of different views from a building model for drawing production and other uses. These different views are automatically consistent – in the sense that the objects are all of a consistent size, location and specification, since each object instance is defined only once, just as in reality. Drawing consistency eliminates many errors. Typically it uses three-dimensional, realtime, dynamic building modelling software to increase productivity in building design and construction.
The use of BIM goes beyond the design phase of the project and takes an important role during the construction phase of a project as well as the post construction phases and in facility management. The entire purpose of BIM was to make the construction process more efficient and eliminate as many uncertainties as possible before starting the construction process. The concept of Building Information Modelling is to build a building virtually prior to building it physically, in order to work out problems and simulate and analyse potential impacts.
BIM offers:
- Improved visualization
- Improved productivity due to easy retrieval of information
- Increased coordination of construction documents
- Embedding and linking of vital information such as vendors for specific materials, location of details and quantities required for estimation and tendering
- Increased speed of delivery
- Reduced costs
Level 0 Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 Level 5 Level 6 Unmanaged CAD
including 2D drawings,
and text with paper
based or electronic
exchange of
information but
without common
standards and
processes. Essentially
this is a digital drawing
board.Managed CAD, with
the increasing
introduction of spatial
coordination,
standardised
structures and formats
as it moves towards
Level 2 BIM. This may
include 2D information
and 3D information
such as visualisations
or concept
development models.
Level 1 can be
described as ‘Lonely
BIM’ as models are not
shared between
project team
members.Managed 3D
environment with data
attached, but created
in separate disciplinebased
models. These
separate models are
assembled to form a
federated model, but
do not lose their
identity or integrity. In
the UK the
Government
Construction Strategy
published in May 2011,
states that the
‘…Government will
require fully
collaborative 3D BIM
as a minimum by
2016’.A single collaboration,
on line, project model
with construction
sequencing (4D), cost
(5D) and project
lifecycle information
(6D). This is
sometimes referred to
as ‘iBIM’ (integrated
BIM).Construction
SequencingCostings Project lifecycle
information
PCS Ltd provide an
electronic O&M
manual that links
hyperlinks from Revit
model LOD 300 – 500Not PCS Ltd
Not PCS Ltd
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Commisioning
Commissioning Management
The successful implementation of the commissioning management role necessitates that a complimentary controlling documentation regime is instigated and maintained throughout the currency of the programme.
Our knowledge in this field dictates that the essential elements of commissioning management are as summarised below:
- Verification that the test facilities provided are adequate for the intended purpose and the production of a commissionability review.
- Production of control documentation and programme management systems tailored to meet the particular need of the project.
At this point, we involve the client to ensure that all particular needs are catered for. This documentation has to be structured to include an overall project method statement, the synchronisation and co-ordination of the packages method statement, the preparation and maintenance of a commissioning programme (using project management software) and the development of logic diagrams.
- Provide pre-requisite anticipation of potential technical problems that might otherwise cause delays to the commissioning effort and to ensure their elimination prior to them occasioning difficulties. Solutions to these problems will be devised and brought before the design team and the client for approval.
- Key date and milestone control/monitoring will be undertaken via project completion tracker documentation identifying all pre-commissioning and commissioning activities to ensure that any recalcitrant parties are brought into line and not allowed to disrupt the overall mission objective.
- Quality reviews to ensure that all documentation is professionally prepared and is presented in the format required by the client for final issue.
Hands-on commissioning
Where required, we seek to undertake work testing so as to reduce the time taken for on-site commissioning in the interests of Best Practice.
During the dynamic commissioning phase, our management emphasis will ensure that the established method statements are fully observed and that the requisite level of commissioning witnessing is achieved.
We will deploy our expertise to solve any problems that might occur during the dynamic commissioning phase and will produce solutions to problems without making unnecessary calls on the design team. Parallel to this we will develop contingency plans for dealing with intransigent problems so that acceptable alternative methods can be deployed, as required.
As a component of our management brief, we manage and oversee the IST and Black Building Testing. We oversee plant operation to ensure effective performance and environmental monitoring and, to ensure that contractor’s maintenance commitments are being fully observed.
Throughout, we provide support and assistance to aid the client through to practical completion.
To ensure a smooth conclusion of the project, we deploy sufficient resources for effective defects liability monitoring.
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2D & 3D Conversions
We specialise in providing high quality paper to CAD conversions at the most economical rates and in a quick turnaround time. Our technical expertise, state-of-the-art infrastructure and flexible production capacity combine to guarantee the success of your conversion project.
Our highly skilled experienced team understands and converts hand sketches, complex paper drawings, hand scribbles and survey notes into a set of complete architectural plans with consistency and diligent quality control, using latest drafting software.
We offer many services, each custom tailored to meet your individual and specific needs. All drawings are manually redrawn to CAD, not scanned or vectorised, to produce 100% digital duplicates of the originals.
Drawings are done at full scale and are dimensionally accurate to the original. We use your standards: Layering, Colours, Text Style, Dimension style Border and title Block. Our Paper to CAD conversion services can be beneficial to many industries including:
- Architectural – Interior Designing – Landscaping
- Engineering (Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, HVAC etc.)
- Facilities and Plant Management
- Mapping and GIS
- Building Construction
- Manufacturing Page 6 Page 7 Bank Station Bentley Microstation to Crossrail standards
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Point Cloud Modelling
Point cloud is a set of vertices in a three-dimensional coordinate system and is typically intended to be representative of the external surface of an object. Point clouds are most often created by 3D scanners. These devices measure in an automatic way a large number of points on the surface of an object, and often output a point cloud as a data file.
The point cloud represents the set of points that the device has measured. While point clouds can be directly rendered and inspected, usually point clouds themselves are generally not directly usable in most 3D applications, and therefore are usually converted to polygon or triangle mesh models, NURBS surface models, or CAD models through a process commonly referred to as surface reconstruction.
Point Cloud/Laser scan is the latest technology to visualise/analyse the built and another way to get BIM information. Point cloud applications are Civil engineering, Transportation & Surveying, Construction (Architectural & Structural), as built of Industrial Plants & Facilities, Forensic etc.
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Utility Mapping
Major investments need to be made in society’s utility supply lines: water mains, sewage systems, telephone lines, power lines, gas mains, etc.
Often the geographic location is recorded on inferior quality maps and in some cases it is not documented at all. Certainty of supply, environmental protection and efficiency of operations, however, require good basic data. Excavation damage can be largely avoided when reliable information regarding location and description of underground utility lines are available. Repair and replacement of utility lines can be carried out in the optimal manner when based on an efficient GIS/utility mapping system.
Our Expertise: supply lines; water mains, sewage systems, telephone lines, power lines, gas mains, etc. Locations and characteristics are stored systematically.
- Easy access to the information for users without any specialist expertise.
- A simple comparison of data about different types of utility lines and base maps.
- Flexible extraction and analysis options
- Efficient updating
- Links to register data and consumer information
- Project planning
- ROW management
- Staking automation
- Easy map distribution via digital or hard copy
- GPS vehicle tracking
- Integration with billing for easy updates.
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3D City Mapping
Three-dimensional models of urban environments are useful in a variety of applications. They are typically represented either as Digital Surface Models (DSM) or triangular 3D meshes. The standard technique for obtaining the geometry of a large-scale city area in an automated or semi-automated way is to apply stereo vision techniques on aerial or satellite imagery.
DSMs and 3D models can also be obtained from Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) or from airborne laser scans. Recently, ground-based data acquisition systems have been developed, which are capable of scanning the geometry of building facades as seen from the street level.
Our Expertise:
- 3D visualisation models have a variety of applications in geography and urban studies: site location analysis, emergency facilities planning, design review, marketing, etc. While they are generally used to simply visualize the built environment, there are early signs of them being used as 3D interfaces to more sophisticated simulation models.
Areas of usage include :
- Gaming companies
- RF Planning Companies
- Real Estate
- Navigation
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Marketing Media
Black & White floor plans:
Simple sale plans for single/multiple family /site plan in vector based software for easy scalability to suite various print/web sizes.
- Colour sale plans for residential/retail using architect/developer’s colour schemes to suit overall marketing package.
- Colour Floor plans with furniture & options.
- Colour sale plans for residential/retail using architects furniture layout for more elaborate explanation of floor plans.
- Interactive Floor plans.
- Flash based applets to explain various options for single family homes.
- Architectural illustrations: Special service for architects to present their plans & elevations in full colour & materials.
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Water Treatment
Pre-construction phase. Offsite assembly and pressure testing.
Air testing (Pneumatic)
Water testing (Hydraulic)
Offsite pressure testing, particularly involving the use of water, is often the first stage at which
bacteriological contamination can occur, so early precautions are necessary to avoid problems.
Construction phase. On-site assembly, pressure testing and preservation.
On-site pressure testing (Pneumatic and Hydraulic)
Flushing/Chemical cleaning
Water supply
Drainage
Flushing/Chemical cleaning process
Post flush maintenance and after care
Documentation
Considerations
Water spillage
Records
Post flush equipment checks/actions
Building Information Modelling (BIM) is the process of generating and managing building data during its life cycle. BIM involves representing a design as objects – vague and undefined, generic or product-specific, solid shapes or void-space oriented (like the shape of a room), that carry their geometry, relations and attributes. BIM design tools allow the extracting of different views from a building model for drawing production and other uses. These different views are automatically consistent - in the sense that the objects are all of a consistent size, location and specification, since each object instance is defined only once, just as in reality. Drawing consistency eliminates many errors. Typically it uses three-dimensional, realtime, dynamic building modelling software to increase productivity in building design and construction.
The use of BIM goes beyond the design phase of the project and takes an important role during the construction phase of a project as well as the post construction phases and in facility management. The entire purpose of BIM was to make the construction process more efficient and eliminate as many uncertainties as possible before starting the construction process. The concept of Building Information Modelling is to build a building virtually prior to building it physically, in order to work out problems and simulate and analyse potential impacts.
BIM offers:
- Improved visualization
- Improved productivity due to easy retrieval of information
- Increased coordination of construction documents
- Embedding and linking of vital information such as vendors for specific materials, location of details and quantities required for estimation and tendering
- Increased speed of delivery
- Reduced costs
| Level 0 | Level 1 | Level 2 | Level 3 | Level 4 | Level 5 | Level 6 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unmanaged CAD including 2D drawings, and text with paper based or electronic exchange of information but without common standards and processes. Essentially this is a digital drawing board. | Managed CAD, with the increasing introduction of spatial coordination, standardised structures and formats as it moves towards Level 2 BIM. This may include 2D information and 3D information such as visualisations or concept development models. Level 1 can be described as ‘Lonely BIM’ as models are not shared between project team members. | Managed 3D environment with data attached, but created in separate disciplinebased models. These separate models are assembled to form a federated model, but do not lose their identity or integrity. In the UK the Government Construction Strategy published in May 2011, states that the ‘…Government will require fully collaborative 3D BIM as a minimum by 2016’. | A single collaboration, on line, project model with construction sequencing (4D), cost (5D) and project lifecycle information (6D). This is sometimes referred to as ‘iBIM’ (integrated BIM). | Construction Sequencing | Costings | Project lifecycle information PCS Ltd provide an electronic O&M manual that links hyperlinks from Revit model LOD 300 - 500 |
Not PCS Ltd |
Not PCS Ltd |
Nicholas Aldridge
8 Step Plan
This will show a schedule of all deliverables to be produced, and key dates for each stage. Each member of the drafting team will be allocated a set of drawings to produce. It cannot be assumed that simply putting a team together in a communal office will engender a co-ordinated approach. The team must be managed such that each person is clear as to how their work will contribute to the successful delivery of the programme of works. Regular, scheduled team meetings are held to air views, pool information and identify problems.
All parties need to be clear as to who has what responsibilities, both on the CAD team and with the various clients’ representatives. All communication between the site teams, CAD teams and relevant project personnel will come through the nominated team lead
Project Completion Services Ltd issue the BSRIA design responsibility document for all projects to the drawing team.
There are many ways to bring together the various parties responsible for the production and progressing of drawings. However Project Completion Services Ltd firmly believe that there should be an agreed and formal set of regular meetings held proactively between the designers, installers and the draftsmen to ensure timely production against programme. We would therefore allocate time for workshops within our deliverables programme to resolve the drawing issues efficiently.
Before drawing production we will understand the project delivery requirements and bodies responsible for services information. Project Completion Services Ltd offer a detailed check list for each drawing. As information is procured it is ticked off against the list. Late information can be readily identified and pursued. This basic format can clearly be adapted to suit the complexity of each drawing.
Using the checklists, the draftsmen can assemble the information packs required for each drawing. Normally we would try and have this information collated one week prior to drawing commencement so any problems can be resolved.
The CAD manager will assist and review the information packs once complete. This ensures the information is checked for accuracy by a senior member of the team This will reduce the possibility of errors in the information becoming a serious design and construction problem.
All parties should now be clear on how to resolve issues before they develop into problems. The client can be given a clear indication of progress
Organization Structure
Geoff Mills
Geoff joined Andrews Weatherfoil Ltd as an apprentice straight from school. After a five-year technical apprenticeship, involving M&E office and site based duties along with a five-year college course, Geoff achieved an HNC with merits in Building Services.
Geoff then joined The D&C Group as a commissioning engineer, progressing to the position of Project Manager before leaving to form his own company.
In 1997-2003, Geoff formed his own company ‘Capital Commissioning Services Ltd’ to undertake commissioning and installation works. Later the installation work was dropped, and in 2004, Geoff formed ‘Circa Solutions Ltd.’ Circa Solutions focused on CAD and Commissioning activities. In 2011 the company changed their name to ‘Circa Management’, recognising the changes in clients’ requirements.
In March 2015, Geoff formed ‘Project Completion Services Ltd’ with the aid of a new partner Nicholas Aldridge. Geoff and Nick have both adapted to changes within the M&E market, adding BIM, Revit and Microstation to their provided services. This allows them to cater for a diverse, demanding market.
Geoff then joined The D&C Group as a commissioning engineer, progressing to the position of Project Manager before leaving to form his own company.
In 1997-2003, Geoff formed his own company ‘Capital Commissioning Services Ltd’ to undertake commissioning and installation works. Later the installation work was dropped, and in 2004, Geoff formed ‘Circa Solutions Ltd.’ Circa Solutions focused on CAD and Commissioning activities. In 2011 the company changed their name to ‘Circa Management’, recognising the changes in clients’ requirements.
In March 2015, Geoff formed ‘Project Completion Services Ltd’ with the aid of a new partner Nicholas Aldridge. Geoff and Nick have both adapted to changes within the M&E market, adding BIM, Revit and Microstation to their provided services. This allows them to cater for a diverse, demanding market.
Contact
Office
Project Completion Services Ltd
4 The Courtyard, Denmark St
Wokingham RG40 2AZ
4 The Courtyard, Denmark St
Wokingham RG40 2AZ
+44(0) 1344 893362