Whether you just have a few pictures saved of houses you like and a dream to build it, or you already have a set of plans and a plot of land, we can help you understand what is feasible before you make a large commitment.

We understand the market and the real world costs for buying land, hiring an architect, and building your dream home. We can assess your options, and develop a plan for making that dream home a reality.

An accurate and detailed budget, along with someone who can enforce others to be accountable to their commitments, will allow for a project to be completed on time and on budget.

In addition, there are many ways to handle pricing, and we can help you navigate and understand bids from contractors, and help explain concepts such as fixed bids, cost-plus pricing, time and materials pricing, retainage, guaranteed maximum pricing, and change orders.

New construction and major remodels will involve complex issues relating to zoning, building permits, health department permits, property usage rights, easements, and disputes. The specifics will vary, but it will nearly always require diving deep into regulations and ordinances. It can even include meetings with planning boards and public hearings with input from neighbors.

This time consuming and tedious task is sometimes handled by some mix of an architect, a builder, and a lawyer, but oftentimes, the homeowner is just left to figure things out on their own. We can take this process off of everyone’s plate and handle it from start to finish.

The best time to face these issues is when you are doing your diligence on a piece of land, before you sign a contract. But creative thinking can solve any problem, wherever you are in the process.

Without question, this is the aspect that will make or break a project. We can help you find the right GC, ensure they will prioritize your project and that they stay true to the architect’s and your design intent.

Corner cutting is a rampant issue in the construction industry. Unlicensed and uninsured trades can be a serious risk to your own financial wellbeing. We’ll ensure that the people who work on your house are properly vetted and are able to provide the best results for you.

Details can be changed to provide cost savings or time savings, without sacrificing the design intent of your architects or impacting the things you care about the most. Being able to bridge the language of architecture and design, with the language of construction and feasibility, allows us to give you hard data on how different options can impact your budget.

We have real world data, as well as access to a network of subcontractors and suppliers, to provide you with options on how to make sure your plan can fit your budget. We also will ensure that the costs of making changes to plans don’t end up higher than the savings you are hoping to achieve.

Building a home is fraught with risks. These can be financial risks from poor budgeting and planning, legal risks from being underinsured or working with unlicensed trades, or execution risk from hiring the wrong contractors.

Laying out the risks ahead of time, before any big contracts are signed or any major costs are incurred. This is not a journey that everyone will end up happy with, even in a best-case scenario. I will help you assess the risks associated with your own goals, financial plan and personal timeline.

An effective owner’s representative will ensure that builders provide a safe work environment for every person that steps foot on your property. The last thing your project needs is a visit from OSHA or a stop work order.

Construction loans can be confusing. Familiar concepts like “down payments” are replaced by jargon like “as-built value”, “loan-to-cost ratios”, “reserves” and “draw schedules”.

Building a unique and custom modern home that doesn’t look like any other home can be very difficult for a bank to assess accurately. Architectural homes designed by renowned architects are more akin to a work of art, and are not a commodity that can be priced based on what the neighbor’s house sold for. As a result, a typical home appraisal will often fail to capture the upside. This adds another layer of complexity to the already complex process of obtaining a construction loan.

We can help you navigate these issues and the countless other issues that you may encounter throughout this process.

Whether the builder is hired under a fixed bid, a guaranteed maximum price, or a cost-plus contract, the owner will often end up paying for mistakes. This can take the form of being charged with change orders, having corners cut in other areas, or a delay in the move-in date. A busy owner may not have the time or the expertise to ensure quality control of their build. This includes ensuring compliance with the architect’s design intent, as well as meeting all structural engineering requirements to ensure a resilient building.

Being on site, early and often, to catch mistakes before they can be hidden, or before it becomes unfeasible to fix, is essential to a great project. Documenting those site visits is also vitally important.

We are passionate about utilizing high performance construction methods, which can lead to reduced operating costs, reduced impacts to the environment, and a more resilient building. We advise clients on technical aspects of their home’s design and construction details, which can help them achieve these objectives.

For certain projects, we are able to provide a full service construction management platform, to help you execute your project from start to finish.

We can also advise owners who elect to take a more hands-on approach to their home build. We can provide a la carte services depending on the unique needs of each owner-builder client. This can range from negotiating contracts with subcontractors and vendors, creating budgets and material lists, and navigating owner-builder licensure and insurance requirements.

For select clients with projects that align with our goals and mission, we are able to provide general contracting / construction services.