Overview of Services

Services to Design Teams
Project Management Services


Our proven track record of advanced problem solving, combined with our extensive network of connections, has yielded a wide variety of solutions and alternative pathways for projects in the preservation industry.

Our orientation toward service to the needs of our clients is to bring together resources in as optimal a configuration as possible - a “dream team” approach.

We make connections with an objective to enhance your business.

Information on projects where we have provided these services, and references, are available on request.

Services to Design Teams

Overview of Services

We provide field support services and strategic consultation to architects, structural engineers, architectural conservators, restoration contractors, and property stewards to assist in planning and development for heritage conservation projects and at existing structures.

We work with you on existing structures within the built environment at any location.

In the design team role we provide a wide variety of services, including

• site work
• logistics
• skilled destructive and non-destructive probes
• test pits
• lifts
• rigs
• sample extraction
• investigations
• assistance in condition surveys
• field measurements
• data acquisition
• photo documentation
• human resource interviews
• development of construction logic, feasibility analysis (as pertains to trade resources)
• document review
• location of difficult-to-source materials
• schedule development
• demonstration projects (fundraising programs)
• mockups
• prototype process development (figuring out what can be done in order to sort out work process flows and techniques)
• assistance in working through difficult projects
• estimating, conceptual budgets
• and review of trade-quality related issues in contract documents, estimates and conceptual budgets.

Project-Management Services

Overview of Services

We provide project-by-project consultation in project-management services for small restoration contractors, architects, structural engineers, and architectural conservators in the heritage conservation industry:

• strategic planning
• market development
• business development
• advertising, networking, branding
• specialty estimating -- assistance, verification and review
• project management support services, project administration
• process streamlining
• submittal process assistance
• schedule development and monitoring
• paper trail development, project communications
• letter writing, editing and correspondence review
• progress meeting minutes
• document review
• change order negotiation
• conflict resolution
• requisition review
• location of difficult-to-source materials
• team building
• integrated project delivery
• rain making
• logistic analysis and planning
• prototype process development
• assistance in working through difficult projects
• human resource interviews
• field-force training
• development of construction logic, feasibility analysis