Collaborative Construction Management ensures its projects’ success by employing a time-tested formula
with key trade partners and consultants.
By Bianca Herron, Senior Editor at Knighthouse Media
Collaborative Construction Management (CCM) was founded in 1997 with the idea that successful results are achieved by combining creativity, craft and commerce.
Twenty-one years later, the New York City-based company has earned a reputation in the industry as a pioneer of adaptive reuse. CCM has converted 37 former commercial properties – nearly 8 million square feet – into more than 7,600 residential units.
CCM has completed some of the most complex and large-scale conversion projects ever undertaken in New York City, transforming many iconic landmark buildings into today’s most functional and luxurious environments, according to President Michael Siciliani. “We are the undisputed leader in commercial to residential conversions,” Siciliani says. “We tackle large-scale, unusually challenging logistical puzzles. We understand how to work in and around an existing building, sometimes even while occupied.”
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Cumming employs a proven construction method to raise accountability and keep building costs under control.
By Timothy O’Connor, Senior Editor at Knighthouse Media
APRIL 2, 2018 -- Building a major project such as a new corporate headquarters or a cutting-edge hospital requires the coordination of dozens of stakeholders, each of which has their own agenda. That’s a recipe that often leads to cost overruns, delays and dissatisfaction for the project owner.
For many projects, it’s better to have an independent voice that can consolidate several disciplines and efficiently manage construction on behalf of the owner. On an increasing number of jobs, that role is being filled by quantity surveyors such as Wayne Selby, the regional managing director of the East Coast at Cumming, an international construction consultancy that focuses on cost and project management. Quantity surveying takes the functional roles of a project estimator, accountant, engineer and conscription lawyer and puts them into the body of one person who has experience in all four disciplines.
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eMars’ Compliant Client system allows contractors to follow the Davis-Bacon Act and other laws while saving time and effort.
By Jim Harris, Senior Editor at Knighthouse Media
Contractors have a lot to keep track of during a publically funded project. In addition to managing construction crews and blueprints, builders must comply with federal and state laws dictating how wages are paid and reported.
One of the most prominent of these requirements is the federal Davis-Bacon Act of 1931, which requires contractors to pay the prevailing wage – the hourly wage paid in the largest city in each county to the majority of workers, laborers and mechanics – on federally funded projects. The prevailing wage is determined by the U.S. Department of Labor for each work classification involved in public projects.
For many contractors, complying with the law has historically meant keeping extensive paper records of what the prevailing wage in their county was and what each worker on a job – including certified apprentices – was being paid. Failure to abide by the requirements of the Davis-Bacon and related acts can lead to fines and loss of reputation.
eMars’ Compliant Client system makes following the law painless for contractors. The web-based service ensures that contractors and their subcontractors are following the law at the click of a button.
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Enginaire adds to its Cabaire™ product line to help its customers meet the new OSHA regulations for respirable crystalline silica.
By Janice Hoppe-Spiers
As the leader in air pre-cleaners for more than 45 years, Enginaire expanded its product line more than a decade ago to include cab pressurization systems so operators could breathe easier. The company continues to evolve its Cabaire™ product line as OSHA revises its regulation on small crystalline silica.
About 2.2 million workers are exposed to respirable crystalline silica in their workplaces and a more than half of these workers are in the construction industry, according to OSHA. “In September, OSHA passed its first revised regulation on its respirable crystalline silica standards since 1971,” says Mark Losching, director of sales and marketing. “There is a long list of new measures that companies need to take to protect their employees from silica. The new regulation has cut the previous permissible limit in half.”
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Asset Drone provides its construction industry and other customers with innovative drone applications that are both safe and productive.
By Jim Harris, Senior Editor at Knighthouse Media
Flying a drone over a construction site may seem like a simple job: anyone with a FAA Part 107 remote pilot’s license can legally operate a drone at a work area. But to truly tap the power of drones in construction requires an innovative company that can adapt drones to specialized tasks, fly them safely over and throughout the work site, and create accurate maps, 3D models, measurements and photos of the site. One such company is Asset Drone.
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Sage’s Enterprise Management Construction solution enables medium to larger construction companies to meet industry-specific challenges head on.
By Janice Hoppe-Spiers, Senior Editor at Knighthouse Media
In an increasingly complex global marketplace, Sage specializes in serving today’s business builders with a new generation of solutions to manage everything from money to people. “Re-imagining business is not about playing catch up, it’s about leapfrogging the competition,” the company says. “Too often businesses make decisions based on what’s in the rear-view mirror rather than the headlights. We combine social, mobile, real-time technology to put live information at your fingertips so you can make fast, informed decisions.”
The company recently rebranded Sage X3 to Sage Business Cloud Enterprise Management. The Enterprise Management platform is used by more than 6,000 organizations globally, with a majority being in manufacturing, distribution or services. Sage allows customers to move up through its portfolio of applications as their business needs change.
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Perera Construction’s team culture allows it to take the lead on complex projects and deliver remarkable results.
By Janice Hoppe-Spiers, Senior Editor at Knighthouse Media
Hank Perera relocated from Anchorage, Alaska to Los Angeles in 1989, leaving behind his residential construction company to start a new firm focused on commercial and institutional construction. Perera knew starting over in a city with 10 million people that the competition would be fierce. To differentiate himself he took on complex projects in the niche specialties of healthcare, telecommunications, higher education and energy.
“Those were my primary focuses when I came to California and I was able to penetrate that market pretty well,” Perera remembers. “The clients I developed in the early ’90s are the same ones we serve today. It’s all about building long-term relationships. City of Hope has been a client since 1990, Southern California Edison has been a client since 1992, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center has been a client since 1993 and Verizon has been a client since 1994, and we are still doing work with our original clients.”
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Messer Construction continues to grow after more than 80 years in business.
By The Editors of Construction Today
Although it still refers to itself as a local builder, Dayton, Ohio-based Messer Construction has national resources, and its arms reach out to nine regions throughout the Midwest and Southeast.
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