Services
FOR PROJECT OWNERS, CONTRACTORS & DESIGNERS
Due Diligence
Selecting and purchasing the right property for your project or business requires a complete understanding of the cost, risks, and value inherent to the property. All of which can be affected by public ROW takings, frontage and off-site improvements, use restrictions and design overlays, access to utilities, soil types and wetlands.
The first critical task is to take a complete inventory of the business motivation and requirements for a prospective facility or improvement. 3cd is your guide through this process, helping you document the capacity, features and functionality you require. This context is then used to ensure designs and contracts are going to result in a project that meets your needs now and in the future.
If the current entitlements do not outright allow your use or improvements, 3cd confirms which processes, and permits are required to secure approvals, produces achievable budgets and schedules and helps you form a team that will expedite the process.
Today’s zoning and land use regulations are full of confusing language and overlapping policies. Let 3cd confirm how the permitting jurisdictions will view your project, any restrictions or conditions you need to consider and what options you have to secure a variance or conditional use approval.
Before you commit to your project you need to make sure it fits your investment parameters. 3cd helps you develop your cost basis, estimate rentable areas, budget the cost of improvements and evaluate the rate of return. When the proper assumptions are confirmed and returns are favorable, 3cd prepares budgets and schedules and engages design professionals and contractors to ensure you achieve your targets.
Pre-Construction
Many avoidable costs and delays occur in the project design, permitting and pricing phases. 3cd helps you pick a team that can deliver on your goals and administers a proven quality control and quality assurance program that avoids costly errors and omissions and reduces your design costs.
3cd’s exclusive design development process utilizes an incremental approach that ensures your requirements are met while significantly reducing the initial cost of designs, the risk of redesign, construction administration and change orders costs. Find out how by contacting me today.
3cd works with designers and contractors to produce reliable budgets, appropriate contingencies and achievable schedules you can use to secure financing and finalize designs for permits and pricing.
3cd’s proprietary process finds and eliminate errors and gaps in the design documents that would otherwise result in delays and change orders during construction. 3cd ensures that pricing and schedule assumptions are achievable, and contractors meet your qualification requirements.
3cd has a list of contract modifications and best practices that you can employ in your documents to improve the quality of project communications, streamline contract administration, reduce performance and payment risks and avoid, expedite and reduce the cost to resolve claims.
Construction Administration
When you are ready to start construction, you want an expert on your side of the table. 3cd ensures that the team communicates effectively and issues that can delay the project are resolved quickly and efficiently. As the project progresses, 3cd is your advocate, ensuring that changes and billings are accurate and quality issues are caught early and corrected timely.
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The biggest risk of change orders and delays during construction is due to communication issues between designers, owners, and contractors. 3cd ensures that communications are timely and actionable, resulting in lower construction administration costs and fewer cost and delay claims.
Quality is not automatic. Building right the first time requires vetting and coordination that is sometimes overlooked when contractors get busy. 3cd makes sure that the right questions are asked, answered, and documented to prevent mistakes, delays, claims, and disputes.
Cashflow to the contractors is critical to achieving and maintaining momentum on your project’s schedule. Amounts need to be confirmed and any changes timely processed to prevent administrative gridlock that can easily create delays in the schedule. 3cd provides a prudent and efficient procedure to avoid errors and disputes.
Project Rescue & Dispute Support
Today’s construction contracting environment is more challenging than ever. Design errors and omissions, poorly written agreements and ineffective communications easily create skyrocketing costs, extensive delays and an emotional nightmare. 3cd helps you avoid the common pitfalls projects can fall into.
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Don’t assume the boilerplate specifications will protect you or ensure you get what you need. 3cd can find and fix the errors in your design documents, provide proven templates that cover all the bases, and vet terms and attachments to ensure a complete and enforceable set of contract documents. Find out how 3cd helps you systematically reduces risk of disputes through its quality control and quality assurance services.
3cd has the strategies and expertise to help you avoid disputes through your preconstruction planning, pricing and contracting materials. Our proprietary system helps you confirm understanding, consideration and document agreement. Our procedures help you track and communicate requirements to make sure that, if necessary, you can easily defend or pursue your position.
If you think you will need to pursue formal dispute resolution, you need an experienced professional to help you with the industry context, evaluate documentation and if necessary, testify on your behalf. 3cd is an effective partner in sorting out the details and an excellent public communicator.
If you think a dispute is likely, 3cd helps you sort through your documentation, prepare timelines and help your legal team find the key documents to defend or pursue claims on your behalf. Not only are 3cd’s rates competitive or much lower than your alternatives, but our subject matter expertise helps your legal team efficiently sort through the materials they need to pursue or defend claims. This context is invaluable to you and your legal team when developing your strategies and, if necessary, pursuing formal dispute resolution.
