The Project
Group is an integrated company that provides the full range of
project-management services for institutional, governmental and
corporate clients engaged in the development of capital
projects. Those services include roles as Owner’s
Representative and Project Monitor – including monitoring the degree
to which equal employment opportunity regulations are being followed
– through the programming, pre-construction, construction and
post-construction phases of the prototypical project
cycle.
This role has become
increasingly popular among owners over the last 5-10 years, in
response to changing roles of designers and contractors in the
construction industry. Here, clients generally require support
in the pursuit of four key project goals:
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Building within or under
budget
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Keeping everything on
schedule
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Delivering the highest quality
service
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Maintaining the safest possible
working conditions
As the Owner’s
Representative, we become an extension of the client’s staff –
creating a center of gravity from which these four goals are
scrutinized, monitored and achieved. Throughout the project
cycle, all critical assignments are constantly measured in order to
maintain both balance and compliance. This combination of
“problem-seeking” and staff readiness has proven time and time again
to exceed our clients’ expectations. Examples of
Owner's
Representative Projects
This relationship occurs when the interest of
a third party to a project requires ongoing interaction with the
project team. For example, given a municipal project such as a
stadium, the executive branch is charged with project
management. But a legislative body still retains an interest in
the project – and typically will not have the staff resources
required to fulfill its oversight
responsibility.
The Project
Monitor thus represents the third-party interest through such
prescribed activities as meeting with the project team, obtaining
and analyzing project documents and performing site visits – and
subsequently offering specialized reports consistent with the needs
of the third party client. A legislative body, for instance,
would clearly have an overriding interest in adherence to the
project budget, schedule and affirmative-action requirements.
Examples of Project
Monitor
EEO Monitoring
is a subset of
project-monitoring activities. Here, our scope of services
includes oversight of all applicable equal employment opportunity
compliance measures – ensuring that minority- and female-owned
businesses share in the awarding of contracts; and, that appropriate
proportions of minorities, females and local residents are employed
on the projects in question. Such oversight has three
overarching and sequential benefits:
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EEO compliance
and diversity, leading to –
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Prevention of
fraud and corruption, thereby –
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Stimulating
investment and economic development through the legitimate
nurturing of small and disadvantaged
businesses.
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