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Construction Management

Owner’s Rep, Engineer, Property Manager, GC Last week someone asked a fair question in a LinkedIn thread: if the engineer is already doing construction administration, why does a board need an owner’s rep? Isn’t that paying twice for oversight, or paying someone to repackage what the GC already does? A lot of boards ask the same thing quietly when they look at a project budget, so here is my answer. A few issues ago I wrote about the gap between the board, the manager and the

How to make a construction defect settlement fix more of your building Your association spent two or three years on a construction defect claim. Experts opened walls, cut test holes in the roof, and water-tested the windows. The case settled. Now there's a check in the bank and a board that has to turn it into a repaired building. In Colorado, what happens next is almost always the same. The repair goes to the construction company that did the intrusive testing. No bid-ready

Every HOA board has had this conversation. A director clears their throat and says, "My brother-in-law has been doing roofs for twenty years — should we just have him take a look?" The room gets quiet. Half the board is grateful for a familiar name. The other half already knows how this story ends. I've watched this exact moment play out more times than I can count, on both sides of the table — as an owner's rep and as a sitting board member myself. The contractor is sometime