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Project Management


NWR Consulting is an experienced and knowledgeable advocate, acting on your behalf to provide involved, proactive direction and to achieve the best possible results, while avoiding the numerous obstacles and conflicts associated with commercial real estate and construction projects. Allowing a contractor, landlord or architect who have their own best interests at heart to manage your project, cannot be relied on to achieve the best results.

The process begins and ends with effective project management with a holistic view in managing the entire project. Through experienced and knowledgeable management, you can control project costs, and help avoid costly conflicts and delays. This allows you to remain focused on your primary business and add substantial value to your own real estate resources.

Step 1: Prepare the Project Program
The Project Program is accomplished in two stages, Preparing the Facilities Program and Developing the Project Master Plan

Preparing the Facilities Program
  • Determine all goals and objectives for the project.
  • Tour existing facilities to understand operational and cultural issues.
  • Analyze existing facilities to identify inefficiencies and develop strategies to increase efficiencies.
  • Develop a questionnaire for departmental interviews to determine current and future space needs, cultural and image objectives, technology requirements, adjacency objectives, and work flow processes.
  • Review current office and workstation standards.
  • Identify appropriate building geometry relative to workspace standards.
  • Develop strategies to meet anticipated growth and expansion requirements.
  • Prepare a comprehensive Facilities Program to use throughout the site selection, design, construction and occupancy process. This includes project requirements, cultural and image issues, recommendations for building geometry, and information infrastructure requirements.

Developing the Project Master Plan
  • Review all available pertinent site data, including environmental reports, soils’ reports, zoning or building ordinances, and engineering reports.
  • Research any available government incentives and jurisdictional requirements.
  • Review physical aspects of all proposed sites to determine any extraordinary conditions that would have a significant impact on facility development.
  • Establish a complete project schedule showing significant tasks, the time necessary to complete each task, critical milestones and any scheduling relationships.
  • Prepare an initial project budget based on the Facilities Program, the Conceptual Design, and a quantitative analysis of the anticipated construction items and requirements.

Step 2: Select the Design Team and Manage the Design Process
  • Prepare a specific Scope of Services required from each member of the Team.
  • Interview and pre-qualify Design Team candidates, issue a Request for Proposal to candidate firms, prepare an analysis of the responses, and recommend candidates for selection.
  • Negotiate agreements with the selected consultants.
  • Communicate the Facilities Program to Team members and ensure program conformance throughout the design process.
  • Throughout the design process, using the plans developed by the Design Team, update the construction budget and identify alternative construction materials, methodology or techniques that may be used to achieve budget and program requirements more effectively (value management).
  • Manage the completion of construction documentation.

Step 3: Select the Contractor and Coordinate Construction
  • Pre-qualify General Contractor candidates to determine their ability to construct the improvements. Review their financial capacity, bonding capacity, availability of qualified personnel and resources, and the type and amount of insurance they carry. Select candidates for bidding or negotiation.
  • Prepare bid packages for each bidder and interpret bid information; ensure equal treatment of all bidders.
  • Receive all bids and analyze each one for scope, accuracy, project understanding and conformance with bidding requirements. Prepare an analysis of the bids in a tabular format and recommend a bidder for contract.
  • Negotiate the construction agreement.
  • Coordinate the construction process to ensure conformance to the project budget and schedule throughout construction.