TG&H Interactive Webinar: Tutor Perini

How to avoid costly delays and unrecoverable loss of revenue: Understanding the right time to bring your general contractor on board for your next construction project.

If your organization hasn’t experienced it, you have most likely heard about construction projects impacting Tribes and commercial organizations by going way over budget or monumental delays. How can this happen when you have done your research and picked your team? In traditional construction procurement methods, you have an architect design a project, you have multiple general contractors bid a project, and then you hire one of those general contractors to build that project. But is that really the best method to develop your property? When the bids all come in over your budget, and the architect needs to re-draw plans to achieve value engineering targets to reduce costs, it actually adds cost (architect’s time) and delays your project.

We discuss with Pat Hubbs, Partner with Harris Associates (a construction manager / Owner’s representative firm) and Chris Creasey, Director at Tutor Perini Building Corp (a general contractor) when is the right time to bring the GC on board and where do you see the best value for the project. Different methods of procuring the general contractor, via Design Build, Design Assist, and Open Book GMPs will be discussed as well. No matter where you are at in your construction project or if it is years down the line, bring your questions to this informative discussion.