About Us
rfm Construction Management Ltd offers clients the ultimate construction management service, an efficient alternative to the traditional construction process. A service that eliminates heavy financial risks for the client and, with structured management of each and every element of the project significantly increases the speed and efficiency to produce high-value results.
Our Story
RFM Construction Management was established in 2000 by our Founder and Owner, Patrick Rooney. Although the firm remains a family concern - rfm have, on occasion, scaled up to 150 tradespeople as and when projects require. Thus keeping overheads low whilst managing and advancing long-standing, trusted supply-chain relationships when necessary.
The business has been built on the philosophy that transparency and understanding build strong, committed working relationships with both Developers and Trades and, in turn, deliver to the best results.
Over 20years RFM Construction Management have completed over 100 projects ranging from small flat conversions to complete multi-story office builds. We have worked in every Borough of London, from the City & Westminster, to Barnet, Brent, Kingston & Watford. Out of Town projects have been conducted as far afield as Reading.
With budgets ranging from £1m to £20m, RFM are proud to have made cost savings of between 10%-20% on each project when compared with like-for-like quotations from Main Contractor suppliers.
We believe our collaborative approach is the way forward for the construction industry. Indeed, the advent of formalised BIM (Business Information Modelling) principles detailed in ISO19650 from January 2019 brings the industry much closer to the business practices that RFM have used since our inception.
The BIM concept allows effective ‘virtual construction’ of a facility prior to its actual physical construction, in order to reduce uncertainty, improve safety, work out problems, and simulate and analyse potential impacts. In this way, RFM coordinate input into the project from our contractors in every trade to allow a smooth-running project with shortened deadlines, reduced costs… and fewer disagreements!
Consequently, in recent years RFM have grown considerably. Testament to the quality of work, the reduction in costs on behalf of clients, and, not least, the development of the working practices in the industry.
Meet The Team
Pat Rooney
Director and Founder
Patrick is Director and Founder of rfm Construction Management, having started the business in 2000 following nearly twenty years prior experience in the Construction Industry as a qualified Quantity Surveyor/Project Manager and becoming Director at a Tier 1 Contractor.
Primarily, Pat was driven to start rfm through experiences in the industry and the knowledge that a balanced and allocated risk and collaborative approach to building would appeal to ambitious residential developers growing a portfolio across London. This was achieved through of our own delivery model of Construction Management form of contract, supply chain management and collaboration and project costing that ensured the client achieved ultimate transparency and value.
Within our first 12 years we had successfully completed circa hundred residential developments across London, focusing on Clerkenwell, Bethnal Green, Kings Cross and Hackney, with our own exponential growth matching that of our key client’s who retained our services for their projects.
A welcome transition in the latter 2000’s saw rfm focus on the growing commercial market in Shoreditch, Old Street as well as further afield in Watford and Reading, forming strong relationships and bringing our own expertise to different projects with new clients.
Pat continues to provide critical input throughout the early stages of a new project, using my QS background and extensive knowledge to equip the client with information that can allow the project to proceed, and to further develop a robust cost plan following an understanding of the design and in line with the client’s requirements.
Pat now strongly focuses on the individual strengths within rfm and enjoys developing a strong team that can manage project delivery within our framework, allowing him to concentrate on the ways rfm can expand, diversify and bring our expertise to different markets!
Nick McNeely
(BA[Hons] MSc)
Project Director
Nick is Project Director at rfm, having joined in 2013 as Graduate. He has delivered 15 projects for rfm having first joined as Assistant Project Manager. He works closely with the commercial side of the business to procure accurately and scrupulously, as well as liaising with the client and design team to understand the project and their vision.
Over the past 8 years he has focused on always improving his technical ability to develop high value and cost-effective solutions for a diverse range of clients with different needs and expectations. The close relationship he has established with all our Trade Contractors have provided him with a reliable and trustworthy team that support rfm’s ethos and enable us to deliver to the client.
Within his Masters Degree Dissertation, he considered sustainable methods for delivering high density housing, this led to a continued engagement in the ever present sustainability focus construction projects now demand – keen to decrease the significant strain construction work has placed on the environment.
Ellie Rooney
Commercial Manager
Ellie is the Commercial Manager at rfm, and has been working for the company since 2015, starting out as an administrative assistant and going on to develop into the commercial side of the business. She works on financial reporting to the client which requires regular updates from the site-based team to provide an accurate picture of how the costs are evolving in line with the progress of the works.
Collectively with the Project Director she works closely with our supply chain to establish value-engineered costs for the project and the effective relationships we have developed with our Trade Contractor’s across the years have streamlined the procurement process.
Having studied a Postgraduate Diploma in Law she also oversees the exchange of contracts between the Client and the Trade Contractors, as well as collating the information legally required for the Operations and Maintenance Manuals once the project has achieved Practical Completion.
She is particularly interested in the positive role that construction can play in regeneration across London, putting the community first and building with ethical values at the forefront of our business model.