Jassama can support owners with a proven strategy to deliver high quality finished projects on time and within budget combining detailed technical knowledge with a commitment to meeting your needs thanks to its 30 permanent staff. We provide the client transparency and availability.
Jassama strives to give owners more effective control of complex construction. Not affected by any conflicting interest, Jassama is your advocate who represents Owners in such crucial areas as:
- Release and use of funds throughout the project.
- Project scheduling.
- Control of the scope of work.
- Optimum use of other firms’ talents and resources.
- Avoiding delays, changes, disputes and cost overruns.
- Optimum flexibility in contracting and procurement.
- Assuring the project is built to specification to meet your needs.
Jassama provides specific expertise for all facets of the delivery process and helps you reach sound decisions in such areas as:
- General project characteristics and performance requirements.
- Site analysis and selection.
- Lead in forming a collaborative team of professionals.
- Coordination with ongoing activities and other public and community concerns to minimize interruptions.
- Development of a preliminary budget and comprehensive master schedule.
- Apportionment of general funding among a number of individual projects according to specific project needs.
- Establishment of management information and reporting system to meet your requirements.
- Development of detailed and complete bid documents to assure timely, responsive and comparable bids, while avoiding questions and protests.
- Assistance in reviewing and analyzing bids and selecting contractors.
In the design phase, Jassama can help you:
- Ensure that design is both aesthetically successful and responsive to project goals.
- Perform life-cycle cost analyses and other reviews to maximize the return on your construction investment.
- Coordinate your technology implementation strategy with your construction plan to assure that your finished project will truly be equipped to support current and future needs.
- Develop a detailed design schedule and supervise its implementation.
- Review design in progress to assure constructability with minimal changes and fewer problems in the field.
- Develop detailed component cost estimates at every design submittal.
During the bid process, Jassama can:
- Conduct pre-bid conferences to clarify the project’s needs and assure responsive bids.
- Assure that all bid documents are clear and all questions are answered.
- Help you evaluate and compare bids.
- Recommend bidders for contract award.
While the construction is underway, Jassama will:
- Assure that all contractors, subcontractors and other participants fully understand the project’s design and requirements at every stage.
- Deliver timely and clear reports to you concerning construction progress, milestones, and other elements.
- Manage the change order process for maximum effectiveness while minimizing delay and costs.
- Monitor the construction process to anticipate difficulties, resolve issues early, and keeps the work flowing.
- Administer progress payments to assure that work milestones are being met and that all current expenses are paid in a timely manner.
- Assure that the contractor provides a safe workplace, both for project workers and, in renovations, for individuals who continue to use the facility during construction.
- Eliminate the need to retain increased staff after the “burst” of construction activities; thereby reducing future operating and payroll
- Costs when the construction has been completed.
- Coordinate the final stages of construction, including contractors’ punch lists and similar tasks that must be completed, often in a very compressed time period, before your project is closed out.
Several approaches can be considered depending on projects’ requirement such as:
- Construction management at risk which guarantees the maximum cost to the owner.
- Jassama may upon demand act as a general contractor to achieve the desired project result and thereby attaining more leverage during execution.
