Our Services
OFFICE LOCATIONS
1024 Bayside Dr #308, Newport Beach, CA 92660
Las Vegas Offices 10620 Southern Highland Parkway #110-910 Las Vegas NV 89141
Areas Covered:
- San Diego County
- Los Angeles County
- Orange County
- Inland Empire
- Central Coast
- San Francisco Bay Area
- Las Vegas
Preconstruction Includes:
- Entitlements / Surveys / Studies
- Cost Estimating
- Value Engineering
- Scheduling
- Construction Phasing
- Constructability Review
- Weekly design review meetings with the owners
- Input from key subcontractors to specific building systems
- Means and methods of construction
Constructability Includes:
- Suitability of work sequence
- Adequacy of lead times
- Accuracy of job-site description and conditions.
- Accuracy check of plan references and detailing
- Degree of site restrictions and adequacy of access
- Availability of utility connections for construction
- Consideration of the impact of adverse weather
- Impact on plans for pedestrian and vehicular traffic
Project Management Includes:
Effective management helps mitigate risk, which is why organizations that employ strong project management practices meet their goals two-and-a-half times more often than those that do not. Of course, not every organization is equipped to manage their own construction projects — this is where Lost Time Management comes in.
We manage your project as if it were our own, applying the same standards of quality, timeliness, and cost-consciousness that we apply to running our own business. Just as importantly, we tailor our services for each specific client and project — because we know that you can’t deliver excellent results with a cookie-cutter approach. Our project managers listen closely to the client every step of the way, acting as a trusted and reliable advisor through all project phases to meet every last one of the client’s goals and deliver a successful outcome.
Project Management Includes:
- Due diligence
- Development management
- Site acquisition and management
- Financial appraisal and feasibility support
- Delivery strategy
- Stakeholder reporting and presentations
- Live program and brief management
- Construction reviews and audits
- Design reviews
- Supply chain management and procurement
- Coordination and integration of FF&E
- Quality management
- Employer’s agent
- Contract administration
- Handover management
- Post-completion reviews
Your Project Management Questions Answered
Project managers use several tools to ensure successful project delivery, from design and planning to scheduling a build. Each construction project requires a unique set of tools to collaborate, allocate resources, manage task lists and time sheets, schedule teams and manage project execution
Sometimes change is unavoidable, but through communication and objective and performance measurements, change plans can be implemented successfully. Change management involves identifying potential changes, evaluating their impact on a project’s objectives, and implementing approved changes while minimizing any adverse effects on the project’s budget, schedule, and quality
Project stakeholders must be informed as a project progresses. Multiple stakeholders can contribute and provide necessary decisions by breaking down large project parts into manageable sections and setting up a clear structure and regime. This also helps manage time constraints and generates maximum efficiency
Scenario planning in construction is a strategic way to analyze possible scenarios that could impact a construction project. These scenarios are developed based on different assumptions about future events, such as changes in market conditions, regulatory requirements, or project risk
We tailor our approach to achieve a common objective using our core project processes. Setting up effective project regimes, applying suitable trackers and continually monitoring and evaluating progress ensures we address key activities promptly. Ensuring stakeholders and consultant teams can inform on project milestones generates a greater level of engagement and accountability with which to measure against and deliver towards
Delivering a successful construction project requires careful planning, effective management, and strong communication among all stakeholders involved in the project. These are some critical steps to help ensure a successful construction project delivery:
- Clearly define project scope and objectives
- Identify and manage risks
- Establish effective communication
- Select and manage a qualified team
- Monitor progress and quality
- Manage budget and resources
- Ensure regulatory compliance
- Conduct thorough testing and inspections
- Complete proper documentation
Cost Management
- Our team has years of experience in evaluating and facilitating the delivery of projects across all sectors. Through this valuable experience, we have gathered robust amounts of contemporary and historical construction cost data, which we use to provide our clients with the most comprehensive and reliable cost consulting services in the industry.
- This unique capability, coupled with our flexible and client-centric approach, enables us to accurately forecast — and proactively manage — all project costs during all phases, from feasibility and planning all the way through to completion. Furthermore, we provide all our cost services with in-house specialists, ensuring consistency, transparency, and accountability as we work together with the project team and client organization to achieve a successful outcome, no matter the project size, type, or sector
Cost Management Services Includes:
- Feasibility studies, cost modelling, and benchmarking
- Due diligence and acquisition support
- Cost planning
- Value engineering and risk management
- Contractual advice
- Cost control, valuations, and change management
- Supply chain management and procurement
- Reinstatement valuations
- Project audits
Your Cost Management Questions Answered
Lost Time Management has a deep understanding of the Traditional, Design & Build and Contract Management routes of procurement. We know each has benefits and disadvantages, which we can align with your project aspirations and client needs
Lost Time Management has sector experts with decades of data which is closely monitored against current market trends to ensure we can offer the best value for money to our clients.
Cost estimation is essential for developing a realistic project budget, but it is important to note that cost estimation is not a one-time activity. Estimating costs should be done at various stages of the project. Some steps include:
- Defining the project scope
- Breaking down the project into smaller components
- Identifying the resources required for each component
- Estimating quantity of resources required
- Determining the cost of each resource
- Calculating the total cost
Construction cost management refers to planning, estimating, budgeting, controlling, and reporting the costs associated with a construction project. It includes resource planning and cost estimation, budgeting and control.
We pride ourselves on our ability to think outside of the box when it comes to value engineering. By understanding your needs, we find ways to keep costs down without reducing value within projects. For example, this may come in the form of procurement routes, scope change or program review.
Lost Time Management has decades of construction data across all sectors we operate in, and we continue to monitor current market trends.
Building Consultancy
Lost Time Management (CA License #1146105) is a market leader in building consultancy, with a team of highly skilled and innovative individuals from a broad range of professional disciplines. We are creative, strategic thinkers and problem-solvers with an excellent track record in managing the design and construction of medium- and large-scale projects, including ground-up developments, major re-engineering efforts, the installation of sustainability and green technologies, demolitions, retrofits, interior build-outs, restorations and ground works.
We have built our reputation on providing professional, results-driven service, offered in a friendly and collaborative culture. We aim to make a positive contribution to the built environment and to be an asset to our clients. At Cumming, we cultivate strong business relationships with all stakeholders and are a skilled liaison to client, consultant and specialty teams, including successfully interfacing with statutory authorities, environmental agencies and others. The services we provide are tailored to enhance the value of every commission.
We take care to precisely define our clients’ ambitions to manage risk effectively, and to meet and exceed objectives. To do this successfully, we demand intensive dialogue and collaboration — an approach that ensures a smooth, uncluttered process for clients and colleagues alike
Our Building Consultancy Services Include:
Professional Services
- Technical due diligence
- Pre-acquisition surveys
- Vendor surveys
- Schedules of condition
- Planned preventative maintenance (PPM) reports
- Building re-instatement cost assessments
- Defect analysis and building pathology
- Access audits and The Equality Act
- Dilapidations services and exit strategies
- Licence for alterations
- Party wall matters
- Building pathology
Supplemental Project Services
- Fund monitoring
- Construction monitoring
- Feasibility studies
- Design and specification
- Procurement
- Tendering
- Interface with statutory authorities
- Risk mitigation
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Architectural & Design Services
- Architectural design services
- Interior design
- Space planning
- Measured surveys
- Conservation consulting
Building Services Engineering
- Mechanical engineering services design
- Electrical engineering services design
- Public health engineering services
- Vertical transportation installations
- M&E project management
- M&E maintenance supervision
- Energy and sustainability advice
Owners Agent & Contract Administration
Our focus is on providing expert and impartial advice, proactively mitigating risk by managing the contractual process, ensuring all parties are aware of contractual requirements, and guiding contracts to a successful conclusion.
As an Owners agent (OA), we administer the conditions of design-and-build contracts and represent our client’s interests pre- and post-contract. Our primary contribution in this role is to oversee delivery of the project and ensure that all actions described in the project’s appointment documents and contract are successfully addressed and completed.
As a contract administrator, we manage the contract between the client and building contractor and ensure that good administrative practices are followed. Contract administration formally starts when the building contractor is hired to deliver the building project and associated works. The contract administration phase is all-inclusive, encompassing everything from procurement and construction through to rectification and final close-out of the project.
Owner’s agent services include:
- Coordination of the tender and the novation of the consultants involved
- Collation of contract documents to be executed
- Change control implementation and management
- Design reviews
- Work progress reviews
- Cost and program reports
- Claim review and payment certification
- Commissioning and inspections oversight
- Certification of practical completion
- Dispute avoidance and resolution
Our contract administration services include:
- Manage team to all contractual obligations and provisions.
- Thorough record-keeping of the building contract and the work involved
- To make decisions in a fair, impartial and independent manner.
- Coordinate and collaborate with internal procurement and legal teams
- Contract status reports
- Conflict resolution
- Management of contractual agreements and payments
- Risk identification and mitigation
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