Project Management

We take the CEO's view on projects: it's not just about deals or design and construction, but getting all the tasks identified and done. All projects take being hyper-organized, hiring solid professionals and setting objective controls, but what makes us different:

  • We begin with a genuine plan and business case, not a single "visioning" session
  • Our comprehensive and coordinated task set (below) saves executive time
  • Our project staffing approach saves 2%
  • Our approach of "bridging" the concept to the design/builder saves 3%
  • Our fixed fee of 1-2% removes financial conflicts
  • Our project planning and management approaches reduce risk, delays and conflict

This summary time line (called a Gantt chart) shows both the sequence of key phases--within which there are many distinct tasks--and their typical duration. A rule of thumb is that the overall project schedule is at least twice the construction period.


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