Project Advisory Services for Construction

capabilities

• Program Management

  Providing stakeholder value and meeting delivery goals requires integrated program management focused on improving execution performance. Exponent's program managers can establish a tailored management and reporting process to assist with strategic decision making, adapt to change, identify risks, and resolve execution issues.

• Project Management and Performance Monitoring

  Managing and monitoring the progress of construction projects is typically the role of a construction manager or builder, but project owners often discover the need to augment their teams or seek more effective project management oversight as the demand on existing staff time becomes evident. Our team develops and maintains project execution plans, schedules, and estimates that align with project scopes and budgets, while working with project stakeholders to address and resolve risks.

• Portfolio Management

  Meeting strategic business and construction goals requires executable and integrated management focused on improving project portfolio performance. Exponent's portfolio managers can establish a repeatable portfolio management and reporting process to balance resources, identify risks, and improve effectiveness.

• Status Reporting

  Exponent consultants employ status reporting to help you keep track of your construction progress by comparing and reporting on actual progress versus project schedule estimates, and forecasting or updating completion dates and costs to help you regain control of project execution, plan for future needs, and measure success.

• Scheduling and Progress Monitoring

  Carefully planning production schedules and monitoring progress goes hand-in-hand with construction project delivery. To assist in improving overall project planning, progress monitoring, and execution risk identification and mitigation, Exponent's scheduling consultants can collaborate with your project team and stakeholders to assess the project scope and cost, develop and update schedules, and monitor and report on schedule performance.

• Critical Path Method (CPM) Schedule Preparation and Review

  Exponent's professionals have extensive experience preparing, maintaining, reviewing, and managing project schedules using critical path method (CPM) techniques. Exponent provides schedule preparation and review services to ensure that schedules comply with contract specifications as well as project requirements and are used as effective management tools.

• Technical Schedule Review

  During complex construction projects, cyclical schedule updates may not be enough to account for the many detailed incidents that contributed to schedule changes or delays. One way to do this effectively is to conduct regular schedule analyses while events can still be accurately recalled, and data captured for future records. Exponent's construction consultants can assist your team by conducting a technical schedule review, including incident, causation, and historical analyses that help you get ahead of costly schedule delays, disputes, and unwanted surprises at the end of a project.

• Troubled Project Assessments

  Exponent's consultants perform assessments of high-risk, troubled projects to identify performance issues and recommend course-correction strategies to get schedules and costs back on track.

• Change Order Management and Claims Avoidance

  The construction project lifecycle has many nuances and variables that can influence the direction of your projects, even leading to disputes among project stakeholders. Backed by a depth of expertise and experience in construction, Exponent can integrate a number of measures on behalf of project stakeholders to avoid and/or mitigate typical issues that can lead to disputes and claims on a project.

• Change Implementation and Management

  Exponent's consultants help owners and contractors develop processes and training to facilitate flexibility and adaptability to mitigate and respond to changes in projects at any stage. By identifying the impacts, developing responses, and documenting the outcomes, an effective change management plan aids in project execution success.

• Data Pipeline Automation and Data Visualization

  Using data pipeline automation and data visualization techniques, Exponent is helping construction companies and owners implement on-the-spot adjustments to enhance infrastructure and improve project performance, including increasing profitability, contractor accountability and efficiency, safety, and the ability to predict future project challenges.

• Cost Recovery and Closeout Audits

  To help clients improve their project performance, Exponent's experienced professionals conduct regular audits and project financial assessments through the lifecycle of a project and at project close-out. Our experts apply their many years of audit and project management experience to identify erroneous billings, unallowed spending, and prevent abuse.

• Integrity Monitoring

  When contractors commit acts of theft, fraud, negligence, or otherwise make costly errors on a construction site, project owners pay the price. Exponent consultants offer regular integrity monitoring services to help project owners avoid expensive construction crimes and mistakes, including ensuring contractor credentials, certifications, and insurance records are valid and up to date; reviewing materials purchases, change orders, and accounting records; performing construction audits for compliance with industry standard or contractual protocols; and conducting fraud investigations.