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Support Services for Owners

  • Risk Assessment & Management
  • Budget Control
  • Review Payment Requisitions
  • Progress Oversight of General Contractor and Trade Subcontractors
  • Review & Approve Baseline Schedule
  • Review & Approve Progress Updates
  • Prepare monthly status reports
  • Change Order Evaluation & Negotiation
  • Claims Evaluation & Negotiation
  • Close out Coordination

 

   
 

Owner Representation
For Owners, faced with a a plethora of details that can derail any project, Construction Risk Consultants brings added value allowing owners to shift from "reactive" to "proactive" management.

 

Causes of Construction Claims

Delay is the leading cause for claims on construction projects. Project delays, when they occur, present a significant unanticipated cost to owners. Unanticipated costs may include additional interest on loans, management staff whose costs are time dependent and ongoing inflation in wage and material prices.

Owners are faced with tough decisions, do they direct the contractor to accelerate the work or do they embrace the anticipated delay and issue a time extension to the contract dates.

 

Insightful Solutions

Critical Path Method (CPM) Scheduling serves as a valuable tool to communicate the general contractor's plan to complete the work on or before the contract milestone dates. Circumstances will frequently force changes to the plan of accomplishment for projects. Stirkes, adverse weather, shipping delays, change orders and numerous other conditions can disrupt the original plan and schedule.

To document changes and their net impact to the progress of the work, monitoring and updating the schedule is performed monthly on most projects. Actual job data including progress of physical work, deliveries of material, installation of equipment, issuance of RFIs, issuance of change orders, out of scope work performed are incoporated into the progress updates monthly.

Documentation of this valuable information, on a monthly basis, serves as supporting documentation to analyze and aportion delay responsiblity to the parties involved. With this information, it is also possible to determine what percentage of the total budget has been spent based on the activities reported as complete.

 

Cost Reporting

CPM can be provide owners with cost control as the work progresses. This aid comes in several forms: as predictions of the need for cash, as reports on money spent versus work accomplished, as reports verifying contractor requisitions and as statements of money due the contractor.
 

Delay and Disruption Claims

We review the contractor's CPM Schedules and provide you with factual status project updates. We review and anlayze delay and disruption claims. We make recommendations for time entitlement. If disputes arise, we negotiate on your behalf to bridge the gap and effectively reduce disruptions to the progress of the work.
 

Owner Representation - Pre-construction Support

  • Develop construction delivery strategies
  • Establish technical construction performance and site utilization requirements; time sequences; phasing; operational and access constraints
  • Develop site construction and building construction logistics and phasing, factoring in operational requirements
  • Develop staging plans, incorporate access & operational constraints
  • Incorproate lead time required for all permitting by state and local municipalities
  • Recommend packaging and bidding strategies consistent with building systems and design schedules.  Consider factors such as time and sequence of work, long lead materials and equipment, labor availability and local contracting practices
  • Initiate early planning and scheduling for optimum interface of construction completion and occupancy
  • Establish overall construction duration and contract milestone dates
   

Owner Representation - Monthly Progress Reporting

  • Develop "Monthly Status Reports" summarizing progress, schedule and cost status, major decisions, change orders, recovery plans and other key project information
  • Develop narrative and graphic reports to continuously advise project team of precise project status
  • Track phasing, logistic of move, operations transition and beneficial occupancy
 

Owner Representation - Change Order Evaluation

  • Analyze cost and schedule impact
  • Negotiate changes
  • Resolve disputes at the project level
 

Owner Representation - Claims Prevention/Avoidance

We have built a reputation of delivering diverse and innovative technical solutions to assist owners.  Construction Risk Consultants delivers world class services to support your operations to reduce or eliminate cost overruns.  We apply our technical expertise, gained from many lessons learned, to resolve complex disputes.  We assist you in managing and resolving disputes, at the project level, before they spiral out of control and rob you of the valuable time necessary to manage your projects.
 
 
 

 

About Us:

We are CPM Scheduling and Forensic Delay Analysis Experts. Construction Risk Consultants improve project performance by eliminating unanticipated costs associated with delay and disruptions.

We identify potetnial risk, early on, and support your management team to develop a detailed CPM Schedule.

We maintain progress updates and identify delay, as soon as it occurs. We develop recovery plans to maintain and protect profit margins.

We put your project team in a pro-active rather than a reactive position to anticipate and mange to resduce risk.

 
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