Construction Management
At Risk or as Agent. Either way you get a licensed builder whose job is protecting your budget, your schedule and your building.
Two ways to hold the risk
Construction management is not one product. The question is who carries the cost risk, and the right answer depends on how much certainty you need and how much control you want to keep.
Under CM at Risk, PeakCM gives you a guaranteed maximum price and takes responsibility for delivering the project inside it. Overruns against the GMP are ours. You get budget certainty early and a single party accountable for cost, schedule and quality.
Under CM as Agent, we work as your representative. You hold the trade contracts directly and see every dollar; we run the process - bidding, scheduling, coordination, quality and closeout - as a fiduciary acting on your behalf rather than a party with its own margin in the job.
We have run both. On repeat healthcare work for clients like Steward Health Care and Broward Health, the deciding factor is usually whether the facility has to keep operating during construction, and how much of the risk the owner's board wants transferred.
What we manage
- Guaranteed maximum price On CM at Risk engagements, a GMP you can budget against, with an open book on buyout savings.
- Bidding and buyout Competitive trade bidding, scope levelling so you are comparing like for like, and subcontractor qualification.
- Schedule control Critical path scheduling, look-ahead planning with the trades, and early warning when a sequence is slipping.
- Cost reporting Monthly cost reports, change order management, and contingency tracking you can actually follow.
- Quality and safety Documented safety programs, inspection coordination, and a punch process that closes rather than lingers.
- Occupied-facility phasing Infection control, dust and noise containment, temporary egress, and off-hours work for buildings that cannot close.
How we run the job
- Preconstruction and GMP Estimating and value engineering through design, ending in a guaranteed maximum price on At Risk work.
- Buyout Trades bid and levelled, scope gaps closed before contracts are awarded rather than discovered in the field.
- Construction Daily field supervision, weekly owner reporting, and a single point of contact who knows your project.
- Commissioning and closeout Systems tested, authorities signed off, O&M manuals and warranties delivered as a complete package.
- Warranty An 11-month walkthrough before your warranty year runs out, so items get fixed while they are still covered.
Construction management in practice
Construction Management FAQs
What is the difference between CM at Risk and CM as Agent?
Under CM at Risk we hold the trade contracts and guarantee a maximum price - if the job runs over that number, it comes out of our margin, not your budget. Under CM as Agent you hold the trade contracts and we manage the work as your representative for a fee. At Risk transfers cost risk; as Agent gives you more visibility and control.
Can you work in a hospital or clinic that stays open?
Yes. Most of our healthcare work is renovation inside operating facilities - emergency departments, medical office buildings, an electrophysiology lab. That means infection control measures, negative air, hard barriers, phased egress and night and weekend work sequenced around clinical operations.
Do you self-perform any work?
PeakCM manages and coordinates the trades rather than competing with them, which keeps our recommendations honest - we have no incentive to steer scope toward our own crews. We do hold a Florida roofing license (CCC#1334096) alongside our general contractor license, which lets us take direct responsibility for roofing scope.
How do you report cost and schedule to owners?
Monthly cost reports showing committed, spent and forecast against the original budget, with change orders itemised and contingency drawn down visibly. Schedule updates show the critical path and any variance from baseline. Nothing is aggregated into a single number you cannot interrogate.
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Talk to us about your project
Offices in Orlando, Florida and St Albans, Vermont. Licensed CGC#1522055 and CCC#1334096.