Construction Management
One line of communication, start to close
We obtain complete bid packages, run every subcontractor through purchase orders and RFIs instead of hallway conversations, and hold the schedule the way we'd want it held if it were our own money.
Chapter 01
Complete bid packages before anyone breaks ground
A bid package that's missing scope is a change order waiting to happen. Before we take a project to subcontractors, we make sure the package is complete: full scope, full drawings, full specs. That's what lets us compare bids apples to apples instead of guessing at what one sub included and another left out.
Cardinal Construction managed project, Howard Commons multi-building development
One line of communication
Everything between you and the trades on your job runs through us on paper: purchase orders, contracts, requests for information, submittals, and change orders. That paper trail is what keeps a job from turning into a game of telephone between an owner, an architect, and a dozen subcontractors who each heard something different in a hallway conversation.
When something needs to change mid-job, it gets documented as a change order with a number attached, not a verbal yes that nobody remembers the same way six weeks later.
Chapter 03
Scheduling: the timeline is a deliverable, not a hope
A schedule only means something if it accounts for the trades that depend on each other, the lead time on materials, and a Wisconsin construction season that doesn't run twelve months a year. We build the schedule as a real deliverable up front, and we manage it against actual progress rather than handing you a Gantt chart once and never opening it again.
That's also where a lot of the value in construction management shows up day to day: knowing three weeks out that a delivery is going to be tight, and moving the sequence around before it costs you a week of idle crews.
Punchlist and O&M documents at close
The job isn't done when the building is occupiable, it's done when the punchlist is closed and you have the operations and maintenance documents in hand for what you're now responsible for running. We follow through on both rather than treating substantial completion as the finish line.
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