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Services  ·  Owner's representation  ·  BC & Alberta

Someone on your side of the table who has sat on the other three.

Fractional VP of Projects or owner's representative, on a live project or across a portfolio. You keep the owner's seat. I've sat in the other three: subtrade, general contractor and cost consultant.

What it is

The owner's seat, held by an operator.

Most owners are outnumbered at their own table. The designer, the builder and the lender each have a team; the owner has a spreadsheet and a lot of trust. Owner's representation puts me in that seat: reading the numbers, running the meetings, and telling you what they mean before you commit.

01Fractional VP of ProjectsStanding leadership for a construction or development firm without a full-time hire. Portfolio oversight, reporting to the board or ownership, the operating routine that keeps every project on one set of numbers. Monthly retainer.
02Owner's representative on a projectOne project, feasibility to closeout. Procurement, contract administration, cost and schedule control, draw and change review, consultant and contractor management. Per phase or monthly.
03Schedule reviews and progress reportsAn independent monthly read of where cost and schedule will finish, written for a board, a lender or an investor. Useful on its own, or as the reporting layer under someone else's project team.
04Standing up an in-house construction teamFor developers bringing construction in-house: structure, roles, systems and the first projects through the door. Delivered with the Systems practice.
Through the project

Feasibility to closeout. Written at every gate.

The same seat, the whole way through. Each stage ends in a written document the owner can act on, hand to a lender, or stop on.

Feasibility

Site, approvals path, Class C budget, proforma pressure test. A go or no-go you can defend: the feasibility report.

Pre-construction

Design-to-budget, procurement strategy, contract form, the schedule everyone will be measured against: the baseline budget and schedule, signed.

Procurement

Bid package, bid spread and levelling, the bid report, with a recommendation in writing. No referral fees, no preferred builders.

Construction

The monthly cost and schedule report, draw review, change management, the meetings run so decisions get made.

Closeout

Deficiencies, holdback, commissioning, the handover file. Done when the owner says it is.

Integrated project delivery

When the whole team signs one contract.

For owners who want cost and schedule certainty built into the contract itself, Kingsley holds the owner's seat in an integrated project delivery team under CCDC 30: outside the profit pool, paid by the owner only, with earned value read every month.

Integrated project deliveryOwner's seat

One table. One open book.

One multi-party contract, one target cost, a shared profit pool that absorbs an overrun first. Kingsley tests the budget before the team is hired and reads earned value every month, from the owner's seat, outside the pool.

Built for

Owners who are outnumbered at their own table.

  • Developers, rental or for sale
  • Owner-operators building their own facility
  • Nonprofits and First Nations
  • Municipalities and public owners

Site-built or modular, one project or a portfolio. Monthly retainer or per phase, set in writing before work starts.

Send the brief.

What the project is, what stage it's at, and where it needs a second set of hands. Scope and fee come back in writing before any work starts.

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