Budget Construction Management

Full Service Commercial/Residential Construction Management & General Contracting Company

Faster Project Completion Time & Quicker Client Occupancy

(614) 484-3248

About Us

Budget Construction Management (BCM) is a full-service commercial and residential construction management and licensed General Contracting company. Established in 2009 and based in Columbus, Ohio. BCM specializes in the construction of new (from the ground up) multi-story commercial/ residential buildings and new custom homes. Our principles have extensive hands-on construction experience collectively spanning over a century. From inception to final delivery, we ensure that each project process runs as smoothly as possible, staying on schedule and on budget and delivering to our clients a turn-key ready project.

Budget Construction Management Is Here To Partner With You And
Turn Your Vision To Reality

For owners and developers, achieving the desired results on a construction project is a big challenge. You need an experienced professional to helm the entire activity, right from the planning stage to the final handing over of the property. Utilizing construction management services can be a wise decision to help you avoid common issues that always arise with large commercial or residential projects. Construction management services helps to coordinate the numerous different moving parts of project construction, helping your building finish on time and on budget. In addition, by working as your representative, BCM ensures that your own interests are protected throughout the project and ensures that you’re getting the best possible product for your money.

Hotels – Multi Residential – Office Buildings -Condominiums – Assisted Living – Senior Homes – Custom Homes

Why Work With Us

It's like cutting out the middle man

As a Construction Management company, we can enter into true partnership with our clients, acting in their interest and managing every element of the project from conception to completion. Our services are provided on a Cost-Plus Fixed Fee. This transparent, open book option allows our team of experts to work efficiently in partnership with you, the owner, saving you considerable time and money. We implement your vision throughout the development of the project as we keep your best interests in mind every step of the way, while you retain full financial control of the project. At Budget Construction Management, we bring you the expertise and full capabilities of a large firm, while maintaining a boutique firm approach with top-down involvement, personalized attention to your needs as we remain focused on delivering top quality and value to your project.

Early Planning Can Make or Break Your Project

Proper planning is what will determine how to accomplish the owner’s vision, and decisions made at the early stages set the strategic framework for the project. One of the keys to a successful project is our pre-construction services; that’s when the greatest opportunity exists to have a positive impact on the cost, schedule and value of your project. During pre-construction, the project is fully programmed from all aspects of budgeting and pricing to schedule and project execution. We perform constructability studies and value engineering to evaluate every aspect of the project and make recommendations based on past experiences and current market conditions, including availability of materials and labor, time requirements for procurement, installation and factors related to cost and cost of alternative design or materials. We also produce a comprehensive and realistic time schedule and a realistic cost estimate to help you create a realistic budget for your project to help contain costs while giving you greater control over your project. Think of project planning as a kind of insurance or investment, the more you’ve invested in the beginning, the more likely you are covered for unexpected events.

Advantages of Construction Management

You Have Full Financial Control of Your Project

When you partner with us, you, the owner, have complete control over your project. In essence, our Construction Management experts are collectively assisting you by providing our construction expertise as you act as your own general contractor. We solicit and procures all the resources necessary for constructing your project in a collaborative and open book fashion. Actual costs are accumulated competitively and visibly, then you, the owner authorize payments to subcontractors and vendors directly. Thus, saving you the cost of a General Contractor’s overhead and profit, standard markups on subcontractors’ and materials. Also, any project contingencies savings will revert to you, the owner. That could add up to hundreds of thousands of dollars of savings on large construction project.

Early Construction Start = Early Project Completion

Another major advantage you get when partnering with BCM early on during the pre-construction phase is that we can overlap the procurement and construction phases with the design phase, thus laying out the project’s schedule for maximum efficiency. Your Construction Manager can start the actual site construction process before the plans are completed. That allows for work to proceed with reduced risk and cost to you and without delaying the construction start until the entire project is designed.

Your Satisfaction is Our Commitment to You

At Budget Construction Management we understand the need to provide a pleasant client experience through transparency, adaptability and maintaining a healthy line of communication as we progress through each phase of the project. We not only resolve issues quickly, we specialize in staying ahead of them. Our top priority is providing professional and cost-effective services to meet our client’s need.

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Sample of Projects Completed by Our Project Managers

Services We Offer

Pre-Construction Phase

Zoning and Site Compliance
Monitor Architects and Engineers
Conduct Design Coordination Meetings
Develop a Project Master Schedule
Monitor the Project Master Schedule
Perform Value Engineering Study
Perform Cost Estimating
Perform Constructability Reviews
Perform Monthly Reports
Conduct Design Coordination Meetings
Develop Bid Packages
Develop Construction Schedule
Develop Contractor and Supplier Interest
Establish Bidding Procedures
Distribute Bid Documents
Conduct Pre-Bid Conferences
Receive and Evaluate Bids
Prepare Construction Contracts
Secure All Construction Permitss

Construction Phase

Conduct Pre-construction Conferences
Maintain On-Site Staff
Process Shop Drawings
Project Coordination
Montor Construction Progress
Control Construction Quality
Maintain Construction Records
Process Applications for Payment
Maintain Construction
Accounting System
Conduct Project Meetings
Conduct Construction
Superintendent Meetings
Prepare and Maintain
Field Reports
Process Change Orders
Coordinate Inspections and Testing
Recommend Construction Changes
Maintain Photographic Records
Provide Monthly Reports
Monitor Contractors’ Safety Programs

Close-Out Phase

Develop Close-Out Program
Install and Setup the FF&E
Coordinate Systems and Equipment Testing
Process Operation Manuals and Warranties
Coordinate Training
Coordinate Substantial and Final Inspections
Coordinate Construction Close-Out
Obtain Occupancy Certificate
Submit Project Documenttation

Faster Project Completion Time & Quicker Client Occupancy

McGraw-Hill Construction conducted research supported by the CMAA Foundation, that showed the effectiveness of construction management. The study directly found that construction management companies saved the owners money, avoided or mitigated problems, and produced higher quality results for the owners.

Difference Between Construction Management and General Contracting

Both Construction Management (CM) & General Contracting (GC) companies operate very similarly. But for developers and Owners they are fundamentally different and therefore offer fundamentally different ways to build a project, and the choice between construction mangers and general contractors influences every phase of the project and impacts the budget, the schedule and the quality of the work.

Construction Management Companies partner with you to construct your project and are paid a flat fee directly by you, the owner. This arrangement means that the CM answer directly to you and represent you throughout the project. Unlike a GC, a CM is hired early on in the pre-construction phase and before the plans are completed. This allows the CM to overlap the procurement and construction phases with the design phase, thus laying out the project’s schedule for maximum efficiency, and can start the construction process long before the plans are completed, giving your project construction a head-start leading to earlier finish. at the same time, the CM offer advice on construction materials and initial design ideas that can save you money and time. The CM also provides you realistic cost estimates to help you create a realistic budget for your project.

Which Side of the Table Do You Want Your Builder Sitting?

The CM solicits subcontractors and vendors that will give you the best results for your money. By working directly with subcontractors and vendors as your representative, construction managers can help contain costs while giving you greater control over your project in a collaborative and open book fashion. Actual costs are accumulated competitively and visibly so that when the project is complete, the owner pay only those costs without any markups. Also, any saving opportunities realized throughout the project’s life cycle, and any remaining contingency budget revert back to the owner. That places the CM and the owner on the same side of the table.

General Contracting companies are hired for a lump sum price based on the completed plans and specifications. It is important that the plans be fully completed, and the specifications be as detailed as possible to achieve an “apples to apples” comparison between several general contractors. A bidding process between GCs would then be orchestrated by your architect, and often the lowest bidder is awarded the contract. Because GC submit a bid after the plans and the contract documents are complete, overlapping construction phases is not possible, and thus early construction start is not possible. Since the GC is not involved in the pre-construction phase, he has no opportunity to perform value engineering, constructabilty studies or other pre-construction services that may enhance the project or reduce cost. That means that issues with the design will arise after the award of the GC contract, and that will result in change orders and cost overruns that can be very costly, requiring the GC to ask the owner for more funds or changing scope.

The GC has an incentive to protect and enhance his profit margin, and any savings opportunities that are realized during construction become additional profit for the GC, even if those saving opportunities are not optimal for you, the client. Thus, the GC’s interests do not align with those of the owner. That places the GC and the owner are on opposite sides of the table.