Owner/Operator’s Representative

PROCESS

Maintain Client Vision: When projects are compromised by competing agendas, it costs owners and operators time and money. Evaluating community concerns, legal/political conflicts consultant visions, agency agendas and other critical issues without deviation from the client’s best interests is seminal to the process.Third party representation allows clients to maintain their critical role, objective problem solving alleviates conflicts of interests for all parties.

  • Collaborative design and participation: Engagement of community members, stakeholders and all design related disciplines to overcome issues and enhance projects opportunities.
  • Pro-active environmental agenda: Environmental innovation for habitat creation, adaptive reuse of existing assets. Going beyond mitigating impacts of development and innovating site specific solutions that enhance a given project, site and community presence. 
  • Design for climate change and unexpected events: Preparation, response and recovery: bring emergency preparedness to communities prone to crisis. enhance the value of infrastructure and public space to prepare evacuate and repair a geography prone to crisis.
  • Considerations beyond the site: Planning construction of multi-functioning facilities improving physical benefits by ensuring that on and beyond the site transportation issues are clear and safe for contractors and day to day users (residential, commercial and tourist.) Assessment of physical, ecological and social history helps make responsible decisions physically and programmatically.
  • Implementation strategies: Effective construction staging minimizes impacts of reconstruction for public space, schools, hospitals, stations or high volume destination.  


 

 

PRODUCTS/OUTCOMES

Holistic (sustainable) design from concept through construction.
To execute infrastructure and development projects, thought leaders now realize the time savings and economic benefits of sustainability.

  • Exceed goals and objectives of the project.
  • Ensure that expectations are met fiscally, physically and programmatically.
  • Save developers, agencies and communities’ money&time.
  • Localized corporate responsibility to the environment and communities.

Product Example: Friends of Hudson River Park – Pier 76 (Office of Senator Tom Duane)

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Why would owners/operators benefit from a third party’s representation?
Community concerns, legal/political conflicts consultant visions, agency agendas and other critical issues, often force a project to be compromised, deviate from a client’s best interests or even cause projects to fail. This costs owners and operators time and money. Third party representation keeps clients from compromising critical roles and maintains an agenda to meet their best interest. Objective problem solving alleviates tensions for all parties.