5 Reasons why not to allow your general contractor or your architect to manage the entire project.
- Architects and Contractors are not overall project managers. CFS only acts as an owner’s representative or third party project manager.
- CFS is not your architect looking to be your project manager.
- CFS is not your general contractor trying to be your project manager.
- CFS is not one of your staff who already has full-time responsibilities.
- When architects and contractors decide they will “manage” the project for you, there is an inherent conflict of interest.
- If the architect is the project manager and a design issue comes up during construction, can the architect represent the owner in a true, non-biased way if the architect erred in design?
- If the contractor is the project manager, when mistakes are made during construction, who is there to account for a mistake and to hold the contractor liable for its resolution?
- Who is there looking out for the owner in a “gray” area obstacle in which neither architect nor contractor will claim responsibility?
- A good project manager will save the project many times his cost to the project. It has been our experience that CFS will typically save our clients from three to five times our fee in direct and identifiable cost savings. We can prove it to you.