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Developers, owner's representatives, school districts, universities and public agencies on CM at risk.
By owner typeSchool district bond programs on CM at risk: what the board needs to see monthlyA bond program runs for years and the board reads one report a month. What that report should carry on a CM at risk contract, building by building.Jan 7, 2026 · 4 minBy owner typeUniversity capital projects: GMP oversight across several buildings at onceA capital projects office with five GMPs open and three project managers. How to keep each contract's contingency, changes and buyout on one consistent page.Jan 4, 2026 · 4 minBy owner typeDevelopers: how a GMP overrun reaches the equity waterfallA developer's hard cost overrun does not stop at the construction budget. It moves through the loan, the equity and the promote. Where to watch it early.Jan 1, 2026 · 4 minBy owner typeOwner's representatives: one ledger per owner, one portfolio view for youEach client owns their GMP record. The rep needs to see all of them at once without mixing them up. How to structure the books when you serve several owners.Dec 29, 2025 · 4 minBy owner typePublic agencies: transparency requirements and the contingency logPublic records requests, auditors and council members all end up reading the contingency log. What a public agency should put in every entry, and why.Dec 26, 2025 · 4 minBy owner typeHealthcare owners: GMP contracts on phased construction in a working hospitalBuilding inside a working hospital means phases, infection control, and interim life safety measures. Each phase needs its own reading inside the single GMP.Dec 23, 2025 · 4 minBy owner typeMultifamily developers: the GMP on a 200 unit buildingRepetitive scope, early buyout and a short list of places where the money moves. How a multifamily developer should read the GMP on a 200 unit project.Dec 20, 2025 · 4 minBy owner typeWhat a lender or investor should be able to read, and what they should notA lender needs the anticipated final cost and contingency. An investor needs the same plus the change order exposure. Neither needs the owner's working file.Dec 17, 2025 · 4 minBy owner typeYour first GMP contract: a reading order for first time ownersThe amendment is long and most of it is exhibits. Here is the order to read it in, what to write down as you go, and what to set up before the first pay application.Dec 14, 2025 · 4 minBy owner typeCommunity college districts: program management across campusesMultiple campuses, a program manager, a citizens' oversight committee and a board. How a community college district keeps each GMP readable and the program honest.Dec 11, 2025 · 4 minBy owner typeMunicipal owners: city halls, public safety buildings and the GMPA city council hears about the project in public, from a staff member who has another job. What the GMP record should hold so that report is simple to give.Dec 8, 2025 · 4 minBy owner typeThe monthly report an owner's rep hands to each clientSix pages, same order every month, and a last page that asks the client for decisions. What an owner's rep's monthly report should look like on a GMP project.Dec 5, 2025 · 4 minBy owner typeFamily office real estate: oversight without a construction departmentNo construction department, a trusted contractor, and a principal who wants a straight answer. How a family office keeps the GMP record without hiring for it.Dec 2, 2025 · 4 minBy owner typeK12 facilities directors: reading the pay application in twenty minutesFive checks, in order, against a frozen GMP baseline. A facilities director can review a pay application in twenty minutes if the record is set up first.Nov 29, 2025 · 4 minBy owner typePublic owners and design gap recovery: keeping the record for the architect's carrierRecovery from the architect's carrier depends on a record that was kept in real time, not assembled at closeout. What a public owner should log on every design gap change.Nov 26, 2025 · 4 min
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Thirty minutes on a call. A fictional project at your GMP size and your contract form, walked module by module.