Donley Construction Consultants Blog
It’s been many months and I have been working all along. But taking all the recommended precautions all along.
Just two weeks ago, I made a site visit and the client, an owner wasn’t even there. The key was in a lockbox and I still haven’t met them. They sent such a detailed set of documents in a Dropbox account, I completed the entire report with just a few phone calls.
I am a generalist. I work on almost anything. I served as a consultant on a hydroelectric project built inside an earthen dam called the Black Butte dam. There was a controversy over different methods of shoring a large hole that needed to be cut into the dam to install electric generation equipment.
The mailboxes of subcontractors are full on information about new materials and how to apply them every week. I get only a few of them, but a specialist subcontractor is sought out by materials suppliers from around the world.
Helpful in the planning the maintenance of a large structure in Los Angeles, is familiarity with the processes and performers of work on large buildings. The successful project is dependent on good planning. Even the planning of the planning. That might sound redundant, and it is, but redundancy in construction is a good thing, when applied in the right places.
In November 2018, I was called by Ben Bar from Allstate HOA Management regarding referrals to HOA’s for consulting programs. His main contact, Jerry Acker had recently retired and they were looking for experienced consultants to assist their client HOAs.