Construction Consulting for Contractors - Bottom Line Management^SM

We can help you be more profitable over the long-term with our Bottom Line Management^SM services. This means investing in your people, their skills, and your organization. Or, we can help you solve a pressing problem that needs immediate attention - like disputed change orders that threaten your profitability, or documented procedures and training that ensure more successful projects, or a fast-track project that requires a detailed critical path schedule for on-time completion.

Contractor Clients
We work with large multi-national contractors and sub-contractors, medium-sized regional contractors, and small local subcontractors, in addition to construction managers, suppliers, and others involved in construction. We are familiar with all types of construction, including heavy/ highway, commercial and institutional buildings, manufacturing facilities, mechanical, electrical, multi-family residential, and other subcontract specialties. 

Bottom Line Management^SM
Bottom Line Management^SM is our approach to higher profitability that helps you focus on your long-term bottom line. It starts with a review of basic company strengths and weaknesses, includes a brief but comprehensive plan for improving your business, and continues through implementation and verification of results.

Company-Wide Services
Take a comprehensive top-to-bottom approach, or select just one of the following services:

	Strategic Planning to set a successful course to meet your objectives.
	Marketing to help you win more negotiated contracts or make the transition from competitive bidding to CM/GC contracts.
	Total Quality Management (TQM) to design and implement improvements to company practices.
	Internal or Strategic Client/Vendor Partnering and Teambuilding to improve business relations.
	Program (multi-project) Management Systems to control labor, equipment and other resources used by multiple projects, while maintaining schedules and avoiding delays.
	Procedures Manuals to ensure projects are well-run, timely, and profitable.
	Dispute Management Programs to avoid most disputes and quickly resolve those that do occur.
	Estimating and Job Cost Accounting Systems Selection and Procedures to establish better cost controls.
	Training to acquire expertise in project management, scheduling, estimating, change management, etc.

Project-Specific Services
Choose a single, project-specific service to meet a clearly defined need. Or, combine any of the following services to upgrade your business as part of our Bottom Line Management^SM approach:

	Estimating and Quantity Takeoffs to help you with a work load crunch.
	Proposal Preparation to help you win more negotiated, CM/GC, or Design/Build proposals.
	Constructability Reviews and Value Engineering (VE) to identify potential problems before they occur and increase profits.
	Jobsite Planning and Critical Path Scheduling to assist you in controlling progress and avoiding or minimizing delays.
	Jobsite Staffing to provide you with temporary or job-duration engineering and supervisory personnel.
	Troubleshooting and Productivity Improvement to help you to salvage a project in trouble.
	Claims analysis to prepare or assist you in preparation, negotiation, and settlement of claims.

Dispute Management Services
Avoid most disputes and help resolve those that do occur with a comprehensive Dispute Management Program. Or, select one of the following services to deal with a current need:

	Partnering to facilitate teambuilding, dispute avoidance, and easier dispute resolution.
	Neutral Expert Services for independent review of disputes for both parties.
	Dispute Review Board Panel Service to help resolve problems as they occur.
	Mediation to help both parties reach a negotiated settlement when negotiations are stalled.
	Arbitration Panel Service to provide an impartial decision that respects the rights of all parties.
	Claims Consulting and Expert Witness Services to prepare fully-documented, well-reasoned claims that can be quickly and fairly negotiated, or to analyze and refute unwarranted claims, and to testify in arbitration or litigation if settlement isn't possible.

Experience
Go to Experience to see a representative list of projects. Call for references.