grif organized in 1998 the international Symposium of Commission W92 of CIB on Procurement.

In 2005, grif held an international meeting on asset management.

In 2002, grif prepared the first International Conference i-Rec
on information and research for reconstruction.

 

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consulting at grif

grif offers knowledge transfer to private companies of the building industry, public organizations linked with the built environment and non governmental organizations.


 
 
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- [one] general consulting services

General consulting services offered by grif within the institutional means of the Université de Montréal:

-  Project Feasibility Report: including economic and technical feasibility.
- Bid Document Review: reviewing of tender documents and performance specifications before being issued.

- Constructability Review: ensuring that the project is "buildable" at a reasonable cost, within a reasonable time. It involves the review of design drawings and specifications.
- Maintainability/Lifecycle Cost Review: ensuring that the facility will be durable and can be efficiently maintained and operated.

- Project Procurement: Advising on the appropriate procurement strategy and the organizational design to be used.

- Scope Management and Value Analysis: challenging a project from its first principles in order to identify cost savings.

- Time, Cost and Risk Management: assuring time efficiency, cost efficiency and reducing the negative influence of harmful risks.

- Quality Management: quality planning and control; including the monitoring of specific project results to determine if they comply with the performance specifications.

- Communication and Information Management: identifying ways of increasing access to information for the companies of the building industry.

- Design Management: advising on management of the initial contracts of the project.
- Construction Management: advising on supply management, tendering, organizational design, security, etc.


 
 

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- [two] specific consulting services

Specific consulting services for Non Governmental Organizations: Advising on project initiation, development-oriented objectives and sustainability.

- Consulting services for post-disaster reconstruction: including consulting on immediate sheltering, temporary housing, permanent reconstruction, community participation and sustainable development.

- Training in project management: specific courses targeted to employees and officers of construction companies and NGOs.

 
 
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  [trois] recent examples

Examples of previous consulting projects conducted by grif:

- The thesaurus of construction and urban studies, conducted in 1978 and 1979 for the Department of Trade and Commerce of the Government of Canada.


- First multilingual construction thesaurus, conducted in 1972 for the Groupe Latin, Centre scientifique et technologique du bâtiment and Department of Industry and Commerce (Government of Canada).

- Study on the adequacy and production of low-income housing, prepared in 1971 for the Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation of Canada.

- Online question and answer service, produced for Cibât in 2005.


- Evaluation of lo
w-cost housing projects for the municipality of Facatativa,
Colombia, 2007.
 
 
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Our recent invited lecturers include::

- Robert Nadeau (Project Manager, Decasult, Montréal)
- Dr. Mark Napier (CSIR, South Africa)
- Dr. Peter Kellett (Univ. of Newcastle u. Tyne, UK)
- Dr. Dave Root (Univ. of Cape Town)
- Dr. Winston Shakantu (Univ. of Cape Town)
- Architect Sebastian Miguel
- Architect André Labelle (Decarel)
- Project Manager Pierre Alègre (Bombardier)
- Dr. Cassidy Johnson (Barlett School UCL)
- Project Manager Clément Demers
- Dr. C.J. Katsanis (Ryerson University)
- Project Manager Robert Couvrette
- Dr. Alicia Sliwinsky (Wilfrid Laurier University)


 
 
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