Services
Preconstruction
PRECONSTRUCTION SERVICES
- Manage the architectural and exhibit design processes
- Develop comprehensive project budgets and cash flow projections
- Develop master plan schedules
- Develop management plans for communications and approvals
- Conduct additional consultant selections
- Review drawings and specifications
- Analyze cost estimates
- Prepare and compile program summary documents
- Monitor schedule performance and identify long-lead items
- Expedite and facilitate coordination between consultants
- Conduct project coordination meetings
- Assist with obtaining regulatory approvals
- Conduct contractor and subcontractor selections or bidding processes
- Conduct direct purchase vendor selection, if applicable
- Prepare comparative analysis of bids and proposals received
Construction
CONSTRUCTION SERVICES
- Develop a construction management plan
- Prepare revised cash flow projections
- Establish communication protocol for owner, consultants and contractors
- Confirm that approvals, permits, contracts, bonds and insurance are in place
- Issue notices to proceed
- Monitor on-site construction activities
- Negotiate proposed change order payment amounts
- Expedite development of schedule recovery strategies
- Coordinate activities of direct purchase vendors and contractors
- Conduct project coordination meetings
- Work to resolve conflicts and disputes quickly
- Distribute monthly progress reports
- Maintain project documentation
Post Construction
POST-CONSTRUCTION SERVICES
- Confirm substantial completion and expedite final inspections
- Monitor and expedite correction of punch list items
- Review contractor and vendor submission of all required close-out documents, attic, stock, and small tools turnover to client.
- Coordinate required training
- Negotiate final change orders and close out all contracts
- Assist the client in an orderly transition from a project under construction to a project in operation and open to the public
- Manage the procurement and installation of furniture, fixtures, and equipment
Job Cost Accounting / Cost Control
- Assign cost codes to all anticipated project expenditures
- Obtain Owner approval of the project budget and the cost code breakdowns to be reflected in the monthly Draw Request booklets
- Receive invoices from consultants, contractors, and other vendors for all project expenditures
- With Project Manager, review and approve or disapprove every expenditure from every invoice received
- Enter all approved invoice amounts into the Project job cost accounting system
- Assemble monthly Draw Request booklets with coded and approved invoices bound within
- Monitor payments to all project vendors and agencies
- Provide project cash flow projections
- Provide variance reports between cash flow projects and actual expenditures
- Provide assistance to auditors for any project required or requested audits
- Provide project cost accounting close out documentation