Project management provides several benefits including saving money, saving time, managing risks, and ensuring a better quality building. It saves money by keeping staff focused, challenging assumptions, managing the schedule, negotiating fees, eliminating redundancies, developing detailed budgets, ensuring competition, and improving communications. It saves time by allowing staff to focus on current work, coordinating with agencies and contractors, and imposing schedule requirements. It manages risks through an experienced advocate, proper contract coordination, clarifying expectations, budget analysis, and timely decision making. It ensures quality by identifying and tracking deficiencies, holding contractors accountable, fostering collaboration, selecting qualified contractors, and having a presence on site.

1. The Benefits of Project Management Your Vision is our Mission!

3. Save Money

4. Save Time

5. Manage Risks

6. A Better Building

7. How?

8. Saving You Money Project Management Plan Keep staff focused on the business plan and managing their current responsibilities Challenging assumptions Reviewing documents, finding mistakes, gaps, better solutions Managing the schedule Negotiating fees Eliminating scope redundancies in contracts Developing a detailed comprehensive budget and tracking it Ensuring appropriate competition Improving communications and documenting it Providing services of other consultants Support direct purchase of materials by Owner Responsibilities Matrix

9. Examples Additional Design $40,000 Reduce survey costs $800 Third Party Utility Savings $215,000 Better design solutions $30,000 Better A/E fee $65,000 Competitive bidding $85,000 Delete unnecessary features $25,000 Specification Review $40,000 Increase competition $75,000 Manage Owner Furnished Scopes $$$$$

10. Saving Time Staff’s Time Allowed to stay focused on the current business Milestones related to Staff activities Researching Owner furnished items like utilities, phone system, testing, audio visual etc. Coordinating Regulatory Agencies Contractor selection process Meetings Documentation Project Time Impose schedule requirements Oversight of schedule Tracking action items and responsibilities Holding people accountable for commitments Documenting commitments

11. Reducing Risks Experienced advocate Proper coordination of contracts and risk assignment Knowledge of contractual responsibilities to hold parties responsible Clarifying expectations in scope of responsibility Budget analysis and cost controls Review of payments requests Better organized project allows for timely and smart decisions Additional resources and relationships that will benefit the project Single point of contact for the process

12. Quality Identifying, tracking and closure of deficiencies in construction Procedures that hold contractors accountable to contract documents Knowledgeable in proper construction methods and techniques Foster a collaborative environment Careful selection of qualified contractors Presence on the site

13. Tools Used Contracts Budgets and cost controls Tracking logs for payments Issue tracking and monitoring Status reports Meeting Minutes Schedules Comprehensive Filing System Meeting Minutes Schedules Research Bidding processes Relationships Value Analysis Logs Progress Photos WEB tools Closeout Reports

14. Jason Crain President, LEED AP 605-310-3821 122 S Phillips Ave, Ste. 220 Sioux Falls, SD 57014