A more common approach in today’s market for completing construction projects is the use of construction management. H.M. Hughes is often hired by clients to serve as construction managers for their projects and this is usually through an agreed upon fee that is based on the overall cost of construction.

Since construction management tends to be heavily administrative and relies mostly on monitoring of project documentation, we have the expertise necessary to ensure that a complete and thorough system of project controls is implemented.

Under the approach of construction management, many of the services provided during pre-construction are continued such as work related to budgeting, scheduling and logistics preparation and it is at this time that we will work with the client to establish a guaranteed maximum price (GMP) that will serve as the base contract amount for construction.

During construction management we maintain and manage all documentation associated with the project, from drawings and specifications to general correspondence, meeting minutes and permits. We conduct the bidding process on a trade by trade basis, from preparation of bid packages, to analyzing bids and making contract award recommendations to finally preparing and issuing formal trade contracts.

As construction manager, we manage the project throughout the entire construction, supervising and coordinating all work to meet our clients’ objectives. We also monitor and issue periodic cost reports to ensure that the project is on track and within budget and review and certify monthly payment requisitions of the various trade contractors.