Your Dedicated Construction Manager
Burkey provides construction management services in Reading, PA and beyond, bringing decades of real-world building experience to your construction project as your personal advocate.
While a general contractor and other primes are responsible for constructing a project as efficiently as possible, a construction manager represents the owner and protects their goals throughout the process. By focusing on early cost control, risk management, competitive procurement, and quality assurance, a construction manager can reduce avoidable costs, improve budget predictability, and increase the likelihood of your project being delivered on time and within budget. For many projects, the cost savings a construction manager provides far exceeds their fee, making the service not only integral for smooth project management, but a financially sound investment.
Our construction management process is most effective when it begins during conceptual design. When construction experts look over your project scope in tandem with the design team, the plans leave the drawing board with fewer costly errors, conflicts, coordination issues, and unbuildable details. Eliminating these from the design process reduces excessive costs and provides you with ample value engineering options for your project.
Cost control continues through the bidding and procurement process. With a construction manager providing real-world feedback and insight, and a design partner armed with that knowledge, you receive drawings constructed on practical pricing and materials, leading to better bid packages. The bid process also becomes more competitive, as a construction manager can tap into their own network of subcontractors and identify where pricing may be inflated.
As boots hit the dirt, the work put in during design and preconstruction by your construction manager will lead to reduced change orders throughout the project’s lifecycle. This is a direct result of multiple rounds of pricing from trusted subcontractors with real-world knowledge that coincide with each step in the design process.
When construction begins, the general contractor and other primes are responsible for developing a schedule, coordinating with subs, and enforcing safety regulations across all trades. Burkey as your construction manager will take on an advisory role, managing critical path schedules, identifying long-lead items, and improving coordination across all primes. We will also take an active role in progress monitoring, tracking the permit process and subcontractor sequencing to ensure everything is flowing smoothly and at a pace that will have your project complete on time.
Construction can be confusing, but it doesn’t have to be. With Burkey as your construction manager, you can be certain all project elements are accounted for and thoroughly tracked, giving you the time to run your organization worry-free.
