Program and Construction Management Changing Lives for Good

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PROGRAM AND CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT
CHANGING LIVES FOR GOOD
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C O N S T R U C T I O N
M A N A G E M E N T A T R I S K Armands success
in CMAR stems from our ability to harmoniously
orchestrate a symphony of different moving parts
simultaneously. Beginning with the owner/agency
and encompassing the entire architecture,
engineering, and subcontracted construction
team, CMAR necessitates a forward-focused
approach to collaboration and communication
across all project variables to compel win-win
solutions to any challenge. Cont....
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C O N S T R U C T I O N
M A N A G E M E N T A T R I S K Leveraging a
team-think process, the CMAR delivery method
joins owners, designers, and builders in
dissecting opportunities and obstacles to arrive
at a Guaranteed Maximum Price (GMP) based on the
construction documents, plans and
specifications, and appropriate contingency.
Acting as a consultant to the owner, Armand
drives the preconstruction process through
budgeting, estimating, scheduling, quality
assurance, safety planning, constructability, and
site logistics planning before establishing an
all-inclusive, not-to-exceed cost to complete
the work. Once the GMP is agreed to, Armand
manages subcontractor prequalification, bidding,
and selection processes to establish the full
suite of construction resources required to
deliver the project on-time and on-budget to the
owners satisfaction.
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C O N S T R U C T I O N
M A N A G E M E N T A T R I S K
The great benefits of the CMAR delivery method
compared to a Bid-Build delivery are succinctly
summarized by communication and control. In
establishing a mutually beneficial partnership
around project success between the design and
construction team, the CMAR process largely
eliminates the potential for adversarial
relationships that can predominate
non-negotiated construction programs. When
impediments to success arise, Armand works side-
by-side with architects, engineers, and owners to
understand challenges and holistically assess
solutions that balance cost, schedule, quality,
and constructability for the good of the whole.
The owners risk is limited through Armands
advocacy in best-value decision making prior to
GMP and through precise project management and
performance measurement processes once
construction begins.
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C O N S T R U C T I O N
M A N A G E M E N T A S A G E N T Serving in an
advisory capacity to the client, Armands
success in Construction Manager as Agent stems
from our deep appreciation for people, places,
processes, and performance. Large-scale
commercial construction is enmeshed in
complexities of many sorts. From financial and
schedule controls to best-value selections in
means, methods, materials, and resources,
strategic, holistic decision making is always
the epicenter of successful execution. In
institutional settings, where there are often
long-range, ancillary variables associated with
master planning, facility conditions, funding
partners, and stakeholders, the need for a
well-rounded construction management advisor
becomes ever more prudent.
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C O N S T R U C T I O N
M A N A G E M E N T A S A G E N T Armands role
in CM as Agent execution is applied from the
intersection of experience, expertise, and the
ability to judiciously manage many personalities
and occasionally competing interests. Working as
the Owners Representative, in CM as Agent our
job is to assess situational specifics and
assimilate varying perspectives toward a common
center of mutual success for all involved. For
Armand, each CM as Agent program begins with
assigning a single point-of-contact project
manager. The project manager will shepherd the
client, consultants, and stakeholders through the
design and construction processes as an
owner-invested expert in the big picture and
fine-grain details of project delivery. As the
needs, expectations, challenges, and
opportunities of the project reveal themselves,
the project manager will tap into Armands
extensive bank of supplemental professional
resources.
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C O N S T R U C T I O N
M A N A G E M E N T A S A G E N T
Whether as an agent or an at-risk contractor, in
construction earning the clients trust is job
one. Operating from a platform of integrity,
Armand advises CM as Agent clients through
sound, data- backed situational recommendations
as project conditions necessitate. Our
comprehensive project analysis is greatly
enhanced by a learned ability to understand the
parts and pieces as well as the people and
processes that intertwine to make each project
wholly distinct and uniquely important to the
clients that hire us.
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P R O G R A M M A N A G E M E N T Working as an
extension of the contracting entity, Armand
provides comprehensive Program Management
services to municipal, regional, and state
government agencies faced with overwhelming
workloads. Our rigorous, process-based
experience in a diverse range of public-facing
construction assignments allows us to provide
flexible, adaptable Program Management services
as an embedded consultant advisor and workforce
resource.
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P R O G R A M M A N A G E M E N T Change
management is a critical constant for many public
sector agencies faced with daunting, large-scale,
multi-project community recovery or
institutional rehabilitation programs. While
municipal agencies often have internal
construction management professionals, many are
underprepared to manage the depth and breadth of
assignments involved in a federally funding
disaster recovery program when time is of the
essence and execution requires stringent
compliance, control, and reporting. Beginning
with assessment and extending through project
prioritization and construction realization,
Armand supports clients with dedicated, seasoned
construction administrators who help quantify
situational
specifics and provide long-range recommendations
on best-value project investments and management.
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P R O G R A M M A N A G E M E N T
Program Managers are tasked with financial
compliance, resource management, program and
project documentation in strict compliance with
funding agency requirements. Armands team is
presently overseeing construction execution on an
array of assignments ranging from heavy civil
infrastructure and institutional rehabilitation
to single-family home recovery in times of
urgent need and significant community impact. In
all this work, time management is imperative, as
is our ability to change gears on a moments
notice in response to a myriad of continually
changing variables that frequently surround these
projects. Appreciating both the micro and the
macro objectives of a particular program is the
starting point. Learning the workflow and
specific personalities involved on the client
level and tailoring the application of our
services to agency and individual needs and
expectations set the stage for smooth, efficient,
effective program management services.
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D E S I G N - B U I L D
Design-Build delivery requires consistent
collaboration across all disciplines to
synchronize owner expectations with design
achievability and the realities of construction
schedules, constraints, and logistics. Armand
serves as a vital advocate for excellence in all
regards by unifying each projects many diverse
influences around maximizing owner and user
benefits through strong communication and team
orchestration.
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D E S I G N - B U I L D
Design-Build projects take advantage of a single-
point-of-accountability approach that umbrellas
designers, engineering, and subconsultants under
the design-builders authority to save time and
money in project delivery by streamlining
execution. Success in this methodology begins
with assessing and assembling the right team and
harmonizing owner expectations with design and
construction perspectives from the projects
earliest interactions. The design solution and
congruent cost and schedule tracking are
advanced through owner approvals with deliberate
intent. Opportunities to compel beneficial cost
and time savings through early bid packages,
prefabrication strategies, and tighter control of
quality, safety, and logistics are all
integrated into design objectives from the onset.
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D E S I G N - B U I L D
Armand drives design-build success as a prime
contractor or key consultant with meaningful
expertise in budgeting, estimating, scheduling,
quality assurance, safety planning,
constructability, site logistics, subcontractor
selection, and oversight. Well-established
project controls begin with a resolute
commitment to process-based, data-driven
determinations that balance cost, schedule,
quality, and constructability for the good of
the whole, which ultimately translates to
achievability and benefit maximization. The
clients expectations are met through Armands
ability to critically control the projects
movement through process management.
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D E S I G N - B U I L D
From start to finish, Armand earns client
confidence by clearly defining project
expectations around program, functionality,
sustainability, and operational performance and
actively leading the project to fruition. Armand
earns the teams respect by closely tying the
costs and schedule implications of design
determinations on materials and systems with
actionable logistics and advantageous sequencing
to improve project performance in design-build
delivery.
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C O N T A C T U S
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489.8212
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