Contractor selection is a crucial decision. SDC & Associates, Inc. can assist you in replacing a general contractor or any or all subcontractors on a project. Because we have worked for some of the best and dealt extensively with the rest, we know how to evaluate qualifications, references and bids in ways that will protect your interests and assure timely, cost-controlled project completion.

1. Review and approve the project schedule, identifying critical paths and milestones and monitor them weekly.
2. Evaluate and negotiate the Payment Requisitions (so that neither the contractor nor subcontractors are overpaid at any stage in the project).
3. Continually assure that the general contractor is complying with all the provisions of the contract and assure that the bonding company is protected from further liability or exposure.
4. Handle all correspondence from and with the general contractor, on your behalf.
5. Handle all correspondence from and with the city, county, fire department and any other governmental agencies, on your behalf.
6. Take weekly progress photographs.
7. Conduct weekly meetings with the general contractor to review construction progress and solve problems impeding progress.
8. Be on-site full time or part time, as required by you.
9. Answer all construction related requests for information (R.F.I.) for the general contractor and assure all design related questions are answered by designers quickly.
10. Help coordinate inspections.
11. Assure that as-built drawings are being kept on a timely basis.
12. Assure the timely testing of the life-safety system between the general contractor and the fire department and city or county (absolutely critical for building occupancy).
13. Make sure that the final punchlist is prepared by the inspectors and is completed by the general contractor on a timely basis.
14. Help close-out the project.
15. Assure all warranties and guarantees are properly received.
16. Provide written monthly management reports showing monetary and work progress status on the project and maintain telephone contact with you at least weekly.
17. Provide inspections and/or quality control sevices, as required by you.

A good construction manager provides these basic benefits:

• Reduced bonding company office overhead
• Smooth transition to the "take over" team
• Oversight of daily contractor operations
• Review and reporting on technical issues
• Review of payment requisitions (and inspect where required)

But a great construction manager will also:

• Assure quality
• Assure pricing uniformity throughout the project on change orders
• Substantially control costs
• Mitigate cost and time extension through innovative solutions to problems
• Make all the design team tow the line during design and construction to be cost effective and time sensitive
• Free up other personnel to perform the principal work of the project
• Assure better project documentation (the consultant requires full and proper documentation up front from field personnel and knows from experience just which documents to require and how to respond to them)
• Assure consistency and professionalism because the consultant is not emotionally involved in the project
• Put a knowledgeable industry insider on your team assuring only a top quality construction product on-time and on-budget...