Flawless, From Beginning to Completion
Commercial Construction Management in Mankato & Southern MN
Expert Project Management from Pre-Design to Completion
Construction Management is a construction delivery method where a contractor is hired pre-design to oversee planning, design, and execution of a construction project to ensure they are completed on time, within budget, and to the required quality standards. It involves project planning, coordinating resources, cost management, quality control, risk management, contract administration and facilitating communication among stakeholders. This approach helps mitigate risks and ensures project success.
Our Methodology for Risk Mitigation and Cost Control
No two commercial construction projects are ever identical. Ensuring total success throughout each phase of every project demands methodical planning and careful execution. When you select RW Carlstrom to manage your project in Southern Minnesota, you will rest assured that you’ve left nothing to chance.
The Steps We Take
We begin each project by creating accurate, comprehensive budgets and schedules. Once our client understands exactly how much money and time their project will require, we assist the architect with constructability material use evaluations. Doing so ensures the optimal materials and construction methods will both be used throughout the project. Having completed this phase, our team establishes the guaranteed maximum price: a legal agreement that ensures our client will pay no more than a predetermined figure.
Once we have positioned our client to make informed decisions about their project, our team reviews its specifications and drawings. Doing so establishes precisely what each tradesperson’s responsibilities must entail, thus eliminating oversight and minimizing the risk of change orders.
After scopes of work are established, our team joins the client to assemble a list of qualified subcontractors that will bid on the project. Identifying multiple bidding subcontractors stimulates competition which drives costs down organically. Subcontractor selection isn’t based solely on estimates, however. It’s not strictly about minimizing spending. It’s about creating value. That’s why a winning bid can only come from a subcontractor that has demonstrated its experience, safety record, and ability to handle the workload required by the project.
Once construction is underway, our team proceeds to manage scheduling, submittal processes, construction meetings, payment applications, and the project’s overarching budget. Our duties would have been more complicated were it not for our cloud-based project management system which facilitates real-time interaction between every party involved in the project.
Upon completion of the project, we assist with commissioning of building systems, assemble redline drawings, provide the owner with operations and maintenance manuals, and issue warranty certificates. This concludes the construction management process: a complex series of events that can only be mastered over the course of several decades.