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Construction Management and Owner Representation
Some owners do not need a lump-sum contractor. They need a professional team on their side of the table — running the design consultants and the trades, controlling cost and schedule, and reporting to them in numbers they can actually audit.
Send a floor plan, a lease exhibit, or a landlord work letter. We come back with a real number and the assumptions behind it.
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Florida counties Romco Builders is licensed to build in.
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Home counties on this desk: Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach.
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Principals run the firm. There is no account-manager layer between you and them.
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Why this matters
What it costs to do nothing
Without a single accountable manager, a commercial project fragments. The architect answers to design intent, each subcontractor answers to its own scope, and the gaps between those scopes — the work nobody quite owns — become change orders. Nobody is wrong, and the budget still moves. That gap is what construction management exists to close.
Why clients choose us for construction management
- Open-book cost reporting. You see the subcontractor bids, the buyout, and where the contingency stands, rather than a lump sum with our margin hidden inside it.
- Competitive buyout of each trade with a scope-gap review, so the work between two subcontractors’ scopes is assigned to one of them before it becomes a claim.
- Schedule control with named milestones and weekly variance reporting. When a date moves you hear it that week, with the reason and the recovery options.
- Change order discipline. Every change carries the cause, the cost, the schedule impact and who authorised it. Nothing proceeds on a handshake.
The practical answer
We work either as construction manager — holding the trade contracts and managing the work at an agreed fee, typically with a guaranteed maximum price once the drawings support one — or as owner’s representative, where we manage a contractor you have already selected and answer only to you. The right choice depends on how much risk you want to hold and how complete the design is. We will tell you plainly which structure fits your project, including when the answer is a straightforward lump-sum contract instead.
FAQ
Common questions
- What is the difference between construction management and general contracting?
- A general contractor holds the trade contracts and carries the risk of the price. A construction manager runs the work for a fee with costs open to you, so you see the real numbers and keep the savings — and the exposure. Owner representation is different again: we manage another contractor purely on your behalf.
- Can you take over a project that is already in trouble?
- Yes, and we will start by telling you what we actually find rather than what is comfortable. That means an independent look at the contract, the schedule, the payment applications and the open change orders before anyone promises a recovery plan.
- How do you report progress?
- Weekly, in writing: cost to date against budget, schedule against baseline, open change orders, open requests for information, and the specific decisions we need from you that week. Meetings are for discussion; the record is the report.
Serving Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach
Next step
Ready to price your project?
Send a floor plan, a lease exhibit, or a landlord work letter. We come back with a real number and the assumptions behind it.