Why Good Contractors Are A Project Manager’s Best Asset - Adam Green - EP 35

Adam Green is a project management consultant working in commercial fit-out, with a focus on public sector and educational projects across London. Before founding Ninety Four Group, Adam spent years inside one of the industry’s larger consultancies, a family business with over 700 employees, giving him a ground-level understanding of how project management works at scale, and more importantly, where it doesn’t. In this episode, Adam brings a perspective you don’t often hear. An honest account of what separates the contractors who make a project run smoothly from those who create more problems than they solve, and what that means for the PMs working alongside them. We explore: • Why good contractors don’t just deliver, they make the whole project team look better • What client-side PMs actually need from contractors that most never provide • How information flow between PM and contractor makes or breaks a project • The loyalty question and whose side the PM is really on when things get difficult • What procurement gets wrong and why the lowest price almost never means the best outcome Adam is direct, experienced and has sat on both sides of the table. This isn’t a theoretical conversation about best practice. It’s a frank discussion about how the PM and contractor relationship actually works on the ground, and what good really looks like when you find it. If you work in fit-out, whether you’re a contractor, a PM, or a client, this one will resonate.