About

Owner’s Project Manager / Representative
“We facilitate successful project delivery.”

Are you planning to undertake a significant capital improvement or construction project? Why do you need an Owner’s Project Manager or Representative?

Construction projects are made up of complex sets of activities with associated costs, durations and relationships, prioritized within a hierarchy of dependencies or sequences of events, carefully managed within a critical path to achieve successful project completion.

Owners typically have a business to run and do not have the time to provide the required level of involvement or attention to detail or may not have the experience necessary to manage their own construction projects. And projects without strong Owner involvement have a tendency to drift towards the agenda of the strongest project participant, with Owners unknowingly relinquishing control to contractors, engineers and/or architects all with their own agendas. Not to say that other agendas are necessarily bad, but they aren’t necessarily the Owner’s agenda.

Who is looking after the Owner’s interests?

An experienced Owner’s Project Manager / Representative makes sure that the Owner’s agenda, the Owner’s requirements, goals and objectives remain front and center throughout the entire process. At a minimum, The Owner’s Project Manager / Representative is an advocate for the owner’s interests, but a good Owner’s Project Manager / Representative knows how to work in close collaboration with the project team to facilitate success.

How do you get started?

Work with your Owner’s Project Manager / Representative to establish a clearly formulated and articulated set of requirements, goals and objectives including your budgetary and schedule requirements before you reach out to any architects or other project team members.

Owner’s Project Manager / Representative – Partial Scope of Services

(a detailed scope of services is available upon request)

Assist Owner in developing requirements, goals & objectives
Manage the selection of the Architect, Engineer and/or other consultants
Consult during design development
Assist with hearings, meetings, presentations, permits and approvals
Suggest and explain various contract forms and construction process methodologies
Prepare initial project schedule and budget
Manage RFP preparation and contractor selection process
Assist with contract preparation
Represent the Owner at regular job meetings
Lead Value Engineering programs and strategies
Prepare and manage cost reporting
Foresee and prevent problems
Mitigate and manage changes
Assist with claims management
Provide continual quality review and assurance
Process monthly applications for payment
Provide continual performance monitoring
Focus on creative problem solving
Provide regular Owner updates
Manage commissioning, testing and start-ups
Direct substantial completion and punch-lists
Gather manuals, warranties, as-builts and other documents
Coordinate final payments

Jean-Claude Alten

With more than 30 years of professional experience, Mr. Alten successfully directed the delivery of millions of square feet of new construction. Supporting a variety of clients from retail to technology, hospitality to corporate, health, banking, museums and manufacturing, Mr. Alten has worked as a Construction Manager, Consultant, Owner’s Project Manager and Representative overseeing new construction, tenant improvements, major renovations, corporate restacks and relocations.
After delivering a broad array of complex construction projects nationally and internationally, Jean-Claude “JC” Alten returned to the Hudson Valley to focus on assisting clients with projects here within his home community, creating a firm focusing on quality and service, exceeding customer expectations with experienced Project Management Services.

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