Why Birch Street?

Construction owners are often incredibly busy, running one or multiple other lines of business while their project is being built. Birch Street clients can enjoy ultimate control and confidence without being involved in the day-to-day roller coaster thanks to standardized progress reporting and seamless, cloud-based document management by Birch Street.

A slow construction project is the often product of a thousand cuts – extra days here and there over the course of a dozen or more major milestones that can lead to frustration and delay for the owner. Birch Street can help mitigate that challenge by not only pacing the project and effectively pushing the momentum, but also helping clients make schedule-conscience design decisions, by helping choose contractor that will meet or beat the schedule, and by managing the many gray areas that still exist even when you have an excellent architect or general contractor on your project. 

Design changes and cost increases can happen throughout a project – at missteps during an initial analysis of constructability, after a civil engineer or architect has been contracted to begin work, during coordination with structural and MEP engineers, general contractors, subcontractors, utility companies, and other entities. These missteps can often compound, costing the owner exponential losses in time and money throughout the project. Birch Street can help limit design changes, oversights, and unnecessary change orders by overseeing your project in great detail during contract design, pre-bid and construction RFP process, scope verification, RFI tracking, and change order management along the way. 

If an owner is not working with realistic budget and cash flow assumptions, the project is bound to fall short of expectations. Unexpected costs can cause a project to slow down or stop. On the flip side, smart budgeting can often lead to unexpected efficiencies and value adds for the ownership.  

Cutting-edge construction management technologies exist today, but sometimes only at the highest levels of commercial construction. Often smaller commercial projects and residential projects live in the past when it comes to technology and can cost your project a loss in effieciency. Birch Street can help bridge the gap and bring efficient technology to any size project by standardizing file sharing, document storage, and contract review and approval among all team participants.