Boutique hotel, Central Florida.
Construction supervision and owner protection for a Central Florida hospitality project that arrived under contract with a contractor already in place. The owner needed senior on-the-ground representation through to handover and pre-opening.
The owner's daily presence, through to opening.
An out-of-state hospitality owner had a Central Florida boutique project under construction with the GC and design team already in place.
What was missing was daily on-the-ground senior representation — someone to enforce contract scope, hold change orders to discipline, verify draws, and run the transition into pre-opening operations.
The owner's situation
An out-of-state hospitality owner had a Central Florida boutique project under construction. The GC and design team were in place. The owner needed daily on-the-ground senior representation to enforce contract scope, hold change orders to discipline, verify draws, and run the transition into pre-opening operations.
What we did
Through the build phase the firm attended the OAC meetings, walked the site on a regular rhythm, tracked the schedule against the contractual milestone calendar, and ran change-order discipline against scope. Several changes had been priced higher in initial submission than the underlying work justified; those were returned with a written objection before they reached the owner. Pay applications were verified against work in place, with retainage held against open punch.
Ahead of TCO the firm coordinated operator onboarding, FF&E receipt, vendor handover (life-safety, elevator, landscape, pool, pest, security), and pre-opening readiness. The warranty log was built during construction so it could be operational on day one.
The disciplines applied
- Daily-presence supervision from the owner's side of the table, not the contractor's.
- Change-order discipline — every change tested against scope, necessity, and price before authorization.
- Draw and pay-application verification against work in place, with retainage held against open punch.
- A planned construction-to-operations transition, coordinated before the contractor demobilized.
- A warranty log built during construction so it was operational from day one.
The qualitative outcome
Owner contingency was protected through change-order discipline rather than spent reacting to it, and the transition into operations was orderly because it was planned during construction rather than after. The asset opened with its warranty discipline already in place — the difference between an opening that produces and one that spends its first quarter recovering.