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Construction Management

As a construction manager, T.N. Ward Company would work closely with our client's design team allowing for value engineering studies, fast track construction, and procurement of long lead items to take place.

Pros

  • Legal documents are well defined and understood by most
  • Allows for competitive bidding of each trade
  • Construction manager acting as an agent of the owner
  • Allows for early and frequent input by contractor regarding budget
  • Can identify long lead items early to avoid scheduling delays
  • Makes "fast track" construction possible
  • Team relationship developed between architects/engineers and construction manager
  • Owner benefits from cost savings
  • Expertise of construction manager in pre-qualifying contractors helps to achieve superior performance and quality

Cons-

  • Allows little input form subcontractors during the design phase
  • Construction manager has less control over design and engineering since design services are contracted by the owner
  • Owner has multiple sources of responsibility (primarily architect and construction manager)


Program Management

Program Management is very useful for our clients with multiple projects. T.N. Ward Company can lead the effort in master planning and procuring and coordinating the services of designers and contractors to ensure a cohesive building program that addresses long term goals.

Pros

  • Allows for owners who have no (or small) in-house facilities management or those facility management departments which are overburdened with existing responsibilities to shift the work to an outside party to coordinate.
  • Allows for use of different delivery systems (design/build, construction management, traditional) for different projects depending on the unique needs of each project
  • Owner has single source of responsibility
  • Program manager acting as an agent of the owner
  • Allows for early and frequent input by program manager regarding budget
  • Can identify long lead items early to avoid scheduling delays
  • Owner benefits from cost savings produced by coordinated buying power
  • Expertise of program manager in pre-qualifying architects and contractors helps to achieve superior performance and quality

Cons

  • If the program manager is not also the contractor, there is the added cost of hiring the program manager.






Design and Build

A Design/Build delivery by T.N. Ward Company provides our clients with a single source of responsibility in which the design team and construction team are one entity working together to produce a creative solution including early budget analysis, value engineering studies and shorter overall design/construction time.

Pros

  • Design/builder is single source of responsibility
  • Opportunity for the owner to influence the design and cost at an early stage
  • Owner benefits from costs savings
  • Design team working together with builder can provide most creative solution to the problem
  • Takes less time from inception of project through completion since bidding phase is reduced and major design revisions are made early rather than later
  • Designer and builder are on same team eliminating adversarial relationships
  • "Fast track" construction is facilitated
  • Allows for early and frequent input by contractor regarding budget
  • Can identify long lead items early to avoid scheduling delays
  • Expertise of builder in selecting subcontractors to partner with helps to achieve superior performance and quality

Cons

  • Does not guarantee lowest cost based upon a given set of documents
  • Design/builder not an agent of the owner
  • Legal documents new and changing
  • Process not well understood by owner, architects and subcontractors