Commercial Construction Consultants
Commercial construction projects often require the expertise of consultants to navigate complex challenges and ensure successful completion. At Spire Consulting Group, our experts understand how to prevent or resolve issues like scope creep and unwarranted claims, showcasing the benefits of partnering with a commercial construction consultant.
With extensive, hands-on experience in project controls, project management, and dispute resolution, our team can support you at any life cycle phase and help you achieve your vision on time and within budget.
Our Commercial Construction Consulting Services
We built our reputation on resolving challenging construction claims and disputes, and today we use lessons learned to prevent those same issues from impacting our clients’ project outcomes. Whether you’re an owner, developer, or contractor, we can serve you through a broad range of services, including:
Project Planning
Establishing a clear roadmap helps prevent scope issues that later lead to costly claims. We partner with you to develop realistic scope, budget, and schedule expectations from day one.
From feasibility studies to execution strategy, we provide a comprehensive framework that ensures you move forward with clarity.
Value Engineering
We offer value engineering and detailed quantity take-offs to validate construction bids and ensure contract pricing is built on accurate market data. By analyzing material counts, costs, and project duration, we help you identify savings opportunities and potential bid errors before committing to a budget or contract.
Schedule Oversight
Keeping a commercial project on track requires real-time visibility into what’s actually happening on-site. We vigilantly monitor schedules and assess progress to identify emerging delays before they become major setbacks.
With continual clarity on your project’s actual progress and the data to back it up, you can make informed decisions that protect speed-to-market milestones and mitigate the risk of schedule related disputes.
Staff Augmentation
If you need to fill critical gaps in your project team, rely on Spire. We provide our own experienced consultants to act as an extension of your team, ensuring you have the staff to keep projects on schedule and up to industry standards.
From project control consultants to on-site construction managers, we deliver the expertise you need for as long as you need it.
Change Order Management
Change is inevitable in commercial construction, but that doesn’t mean it must lead to significant cost overruns or derail project timelines. Whether you’re an owner or a contractor, we can support you by making sure every adjustment is substantiated and fair and facilitating smooth negotiations.
Risk Management
We identify and analyze risks, such as budget overruns and schedule delays, before they impact your project’s bottom line. Once we’ve spotted potential risks, we deliver clear strategies that allow you to mitigate them and make the fast, informed decisions needed to maintain momentum.
Damage Quantification
Recovering costs from disruption requires a direct link between the event and the financial loss. We methodically identify liability and substantiate damages like productivity loss and extended site overhead with defensible data, helping you resolve disputes effectively and prevent escalation.
Our Experience in Commercial Construction Consulting
We’ve provided construction consulting services to a wide variety of commercial projects, including those involving warehouses, distribution centers, shopping centers, and office buildings. Explore our representative projects below to see the solutions we’ve delivered.
- ExxonMobil Delta Campus: Our team assisted with the $1 billion ExxonMobil Delta Campus project by providing project planning and scheduling services, facilitating stakeholder communications, and monitoring subcontractor performance.
- McCoy’s Corporate Headquarters: Spire’s consultants provided schedule oversight, program management, budget analysis, and other services to help McCoy’s Building Supply complete a $25 million project.
- Advanced Micro Devices: Spire helped Advanced Micro Devices achieve LEED Gold certification at its Lone Star Campus by delivering comprehensive mechanical, electrical, and plumbing project management, along with commissioning audit services.
- Boeing Charleston Expansion Project: With the $750 million Final Assembly Building of the Boeing Charleston Expansion project, Spire’s team performed a cost analysis, schedule analysis, and document analysis to quantify delays and timeline acceleration, helping a subcontractor prepare a change order request.
- Powell Airport Campus Development: Spire supported the General Contractor and Project Development Manager, assisting with various scheduling responsibilities and stakeholder communications to complete the Powell Airport Campus project.
- Texas State Stadium Renovation: A program manager retained Spire consultants on behalf of Texas State University to provide cost analysis and cost estimating services in a project to expand the Bobcat Stadium — an initiative involving 33,557 square feet of new construction, site improvements, and renovations to existing structures.
- Kadena Air Force Base Shopping Center: Spire’s consultants provided project controls services to assist with schedule analysis, oversight, and development while executing the $80 million Kadena Shopping Center project.
Execute a Successful Commercial Construction Project With Spire
Partnering with a trusted construction consulting company like Spire allows you to navigate the complexities of high-stakes commercial projects successfully and confidently. As a multidisciplinary construction consulting firm, we’re equipped to support you with both proactive project controls and forensic investigations at any project phase.
We’ll tailor our construction consulting services to your needs with attention to detail and a commitment to high-quality work. Contact us to start a conversation and discover how we can support you.