Approach

Not every project is saveable. Most are recoverable.

We would love to say every project can be brought all the way back. Some have gone far enough off the rails, with delayed action stacking problem on problem, that perfect alignment is no longer available.

The honest limit

We cannot fix expectations that were never grounded. What we can do is limit further exposure, properly document the shortfalls, and course correct toward the best outcome that situation still allows.

That is a real answer and it is usually worth more than an optimistic one. A project that is going to finish eleven weeks late finishes eleven weeks late whether or not anybody says so out loud. Knowing it, with the reasons attached, is what lets you plan around it.

How the work runs

We read before we walk

The documents establish what to ask about. Walking a site without knowing what you are looking for means looking at everything and finding nothing.

Observations are sourced, conclusions are separate

Every observation cites the document it came from and that document's date. Conclusions reference back to those observations, so you can disagree with a conclusion and still verify the facts underneath it.

We state what the record could not tell us

Every finding carries a limitations section. A finding without its limits is not a finding.

Recommendations are ranked by the cost of doing nothing

Not by the cost of the fix. Those are different lists, and ranking by the wrong one is how a project spends money on the visible problem instead of the expensive one.

What we do not do

This is a short list on purpose, and it is what makes the rest of the work usable.

No design and no engineering. No code compliance determination. No direction or control of construction means, methods or sequences — those belong to your contractors. No responsibility for jobsite safety. No legal advice, and no opinion on entitlement under any contract.

We do not act as an expert witness and we do not work matters already in litigation. If a project we are on enters a lawsuit, our engagement ends. That is a deliberate limitation, and it is the reason people on both sides of a table can speak to us honestly.

Everybody knows we are coming

Before we set foot on a project, the other principal party is told — the general contractor if the owner engaged us, the owner if the general contractor did. You decide what is said and how.

Nobody finds out a consultant is on their job by running into one.

Where we work

Central Texas. Commercial and multifamily projects under $30 million — Temple, Waco, Killeen, Austin, San Antonio, Dallas and Fort Worth. No heavy civil.

That is a narrow footprint on purpose. A consultant who claims every market and every project type is telling you they have no specialty.