Support at every stage of the construction project
Services
Planning
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A thorough understanding of your contract, its processes, and its risks helps set a better platform to manage the project. Our team uses its prior risk, management, and litigation experience to help clients better understand the contract requirements, and then design processes that meet those requirements and enhance project success.
Risk management starts with an accurate identification of the risks, but without processes and tools to help prevent and manage those risks, they too often become a reality. We work with your team to identify and manage the risks unique to your project, consistently driving the team toward proactive solutions for prevention and limitation of those risks. If and when they occur, we will help you understand how to proceed to reduce effects to your project and organization.
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We work with your team to understand your plan to complete the project, and then develop a schedule that not only memorializes that plan, but better enables the team to make valuable time-management decisions throughout the project life cycle. We also provide schedule update and analysis services that improve your schedule performance assessments, and allow your project management teams to focus on what is most important to achieve the project’s time-based objectives.
Building
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Of course, cost management is important. Our team specializes in not only understanding your project cost and revenue objectives, but also how to better control and manage the operations that drive those costs and revenues. We work with your team to gain an in-depth understanding of your operational processes, and then use that information to improve project forecasting, financial performance, and, if needed, recovery for costs being expended that are outside of your control.
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Construction projects change, so you need to have a team prepared to properly resolve those changes. Our team will help you understand how to best manage changes with your specific project and team, and then help you identify, analyze, and resolve the effects of those changes to improve project and company performance.
RESOLVING
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Time is one of the most expensive components of any job, and projects never go as initially planned. Project management costs increase with time, and management of your field resources and material supply chain flexes as project performance and requirements change. Our team will analyze the specific circumstances of your change or issue, and then analyze the project schedule, critical path, and other time-related aspects of your project to accurately quantify the effect of those issues so they can be accurately priced and recovered. Once those items are accurately quantified, we will provide a time extension analysis that meets the contract requirements, is supported by the project facts, and places your company in a better position for recovery.
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The efficient use of resources is key to any project’s operational and financial success. Our experience enables us to understand the risks to your resource productivity and efficiency, and places you in a better position to identify when those items change. We will work with your team to identify productivity losses, provide causation and root-cause analysis, and determine how to improve performance or quantify the effects of productivity issues already incurred.
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Our project reviews and analyses place project stakeholders in a better position to understand the current status of the project and how to best prioritize the remaining work to achieve the project objectives. Our project reviews and processes are applicable to the corporate executive wanting to understand a specific division’s performance; the project manager trying to focus and prioritize its remaining work; or the project owner trying to get an objective understanding of the contractor’s performance and where the teams need to focus to enhance project success. We customize our reports and analyses to meet your specific objectives and adjust course when necessary.