CONSULTING
A single point of contact consulting group comprised of multidisciplinary industry veterans. Our team’s vast years of experience within the construction and real estate industry takes a unique approach. Our primary goal is to quickly identify the job and create beneficial outcomes to all stakeholders involved. We focus on adding value by providing solutions, not problems.
We wear many hats, and it works….
Our team provides solutions by leveraging decades of hands on experience. We have been owners, investors, designers, developers, and contractors. Our projects have spanned international borders, and featured many industry first environmental and public collaborations.
Accomplishing Client Goals
The real estate industry is a fast paced, complex, ever changing field. Within this dynamic environment, how do you continue to move forward, control acquisitions, control entitlements, control design, control budgets and control execution of it all?
All to often, owners, developers, tenants and businesses are confronted with an overwhelming amount of participants, with varying interests and goals, when they acquire, develop, construct or lease real property. Niche Builders acts as a "third party," single point of contact, to provide focused project coordination services from inception to competition, helping clients make informed decisions to achieve maximum results.
Niche Builders manages projects for a wide range of clients that require careful planning and meticulous execution. Our relationships with consultants, brokers, municipalities and subcontractors establishes the best possible team to bring to fruition the clients vision and goals with the successful execution of each project.
Clients need to fully understand the risks and costs for their project before committing their time and resources. Niche Builders will lead the full site analysis, building assessment and due diligence services tailored to the individual project specifics in order to provide our client with the critical information they need to either move forward with confidence, or just as importantly, identify and pass on projects that do not meet their criteria.
Niche Builders prioritizes and guides clients through the maze of information required to make the initial determination of a product's feasibility. This incremental approach provides value by limiting extraneous spending, allowing our clients to focus their time and money on the most promising opportunities.
Our Services Include:
Pre-Construction Service
A successful project requires meticulous planning and careful coordination across numerous disciplines. Niche Builders provides the expertise and broad overview of knowledge, constructibility and cost processes prior to breaking ground. Niche provides value for its clients during pre-construction by focusing on several key areas;
Assist our clients with selecting the right team for their specific project needs from a large pool of experienced consultants of various types and disciplines, and
Proactively manage and guide the design and entitlement process using critical path milestones, reducing project delays and saving valuable time and resources, obtain cost feedback on critical design issues and incorporate value engineering suggestions into the design prior to procurement, again saving time and resources by managing costs and expectations before construction starts.
Construction Management Services
Once a project moves to construction, Niche Builders manages all construction activities to ensure the successful completion of the project. Our process begins with detailed onsite planning which is aggressively executed. Active planning has proven to be instrumentally essential in our ability to adapt to changes as they occur. Niche Builders's experienced staff believes in an active management approach which ensures the clients vision is effectively conveyed to all of our consultants and contractors from Day One. Niche Builders has a unique perspective due to our vast experience from numerous perspectives including: property owner, business owner, planning and design team, along with extensive experience in onsite construction. Our approach maximizes communication between all parties to efficiently provide an environment for both the client and consultants to thrive on level ground and ensure a balanced relationship. We are confident this approach optimizes collaboration to ensure a deeper level of understanding of the intricacies of complex design and construction issues. Our process creates a unique environment to develop innovative solutions, which mitigates potential excess cost and schedule delays for both the client and consultants to thrive.
Owner Representation - Project Management Oversight
Niche Builders also provides owner representation and project management services. Acting as the owners agent-liaison point of control, Niche Builders oversees, manages and administrates the entire project or individual portion desired. Program Management Consulting Services provide a level of service and reliability one would expect from an internal real estate and construction department. In this capacity, Niche Builders reports, coordinates, oversees, and strives to exceed the goals and parameters the owner defines. Niche affords clients the development, design and construction expertise needed to achieve the client's goals by providing access to industry leaders without the costs associated with employing such talent on a permanent basis.
Niche Builders has a breath of experience that spans every real estate property type. Its principals have excelled through time of economic expansion and contraction, as fully vested owners. This "ownership mentality" benefits our clients in all phases of a project, keeping discipline for superior results. Our expertise can be utilized whether you are looking to: purchase or lease a property, repositioning an existing asset, or engage in the act of construction, Niche Builders is here to help represent your interests.