KT is committed to developing an individual solution that meets each unique project’s specific requirements. We have assembled numerous options for specific services during preconstruction, construction, and post construction/completion phases.

Preconstruction
KT believes that the planning and design phase offers the best and earliest opportunity to assure a project’s success. By establishing standards early on in the project, KT can minimize future setbacks and mitigate problems before they arise.

Our services in this phase can include:

• Site acquisition assistance
• Design Team Assembly and Management
• Value engineering and constructability review
• Construction cost estimation
• Budget preparation or evaluation
• Master Schedule Development
• Bid Process Development and Contractor Evaluation
• Construction Contract Negotiation
• Contractor and Subcontractor Scope Development
• Contractor and Subcontractor Buyout

Construction
Balancing budget, schedule, and quality controls with continual progress is essential during the construction phase. KT will establish and coordinate procedures for all parties involved on the project, allowing the management and coordination of all elements of construction.

Our services in this phase can include:

• Construction Schedule Development
• Bi Monthly in depth Schedule Updates
• Construction progress evaluation
• Financial controls management
• Quality control monitoring
• Payment Requisition reviews and reconciliation
• Change order review
• Preparation of comprehensive project status reports
• Early identification of project delaying issues with early resolution options
• Weekly meetings with all parties to discuss progress and review issues
• Commissioning
• Real-time profit/loss assessment

Completion
Ensuring that every element of the project is finished to a satisfactory level and meets established expectations is an essential element to timely completion. Efforts made during pre-construction and construction will ensure a smooth transition to project closeout and occupancy.

KT will oversee every aspect of project close out procedures including:  

• Punch list compilation and completion
• Substantial and final completion certification
• Occupancy certification through local regulatory authorities
• Commissioning oversight
• Coordination of as-built drawings
• Procurement of final releases
• Final payment authorization

The KT Consulting team understand how daunting a task it is, for the Owner to stay on top of the multitude of issues inherent in a complex construction project. We offer our clients assistance in focusing on the big picture, confident your project is coordinated smoothly, effectively and profitably by experienced industry professionals.

The KT approach to Owners Representation is as follows:

• Design Team Assembly and Management
• Master Schedule Development
• Value engineering and constructability reviews
• Acquire permits and entitlements
• Construction cost estimation
• Budget preparation or evaluation
• Bid Process Development and Contractor Evaluation
• Construction Contract Negotiation
• Contractor and Subcontractor Scope Development
• Pre Screen potential Subcontractors
• Contractor and Subcontractor Buyout
• Schedule and Lead scheduled progress meetings and “as needed” meetings
• Conduct in depth Bi-Monthly schedule updates
• Review and evaluate change orders and pay applications
• Review and evaluate claims in real time
• Monitor Design Team Contract Administration
• Continually identify and resolve potential construction delaying issues
• Obtain Final Completion Certificates
• Coordinate project Close-out

With your selection of KT as your right hand and project representative, you can be confident that you have our collective industry expertise, as well as our unmatched drive to successfully navigate your project, from conception through completion.

Building Assessment and Evaluation Services of
Commercial and Residential Projects including High Rises, Office Buildings, Shopping Centers, Apartment Communities, Residential Single Family Home Projects, Hospitals, Critical Mission Facilities, Data Centers.

Our Associates use a detailed approach to determining our clients’ risk by dispatching a team of individual trade experts whom are well versed in all phases of construction. Our team forensically inspects projects to return the information to the estimating department for review.

We uncover and identify the risks and help mitigate their potential impact to the decision making process for our clients. Additionally, we estimate and deliver a detailed cost breakdown of work required, enabling our clients to obtain a confident decision on a potential acquisition.

Our services are detailed below:

• On-site Field Inspection
• On-site Mechanical, Electrical & Control Commissioning
• On-site Critical Mission Commissioning
• Complete Cost-Estimating
• Complete Construction Management (Owner’s Rep)
• Pre-construction Planning and Coordination
• Decision Risk Analysis
• Vetting of Contractors and Vendors
• On-site Owner Field Representation
• Construction Scheduling and Site Management
• Construction Close-out

To properly commission a building it is important to run an intensive quality assurance process. This review must begin in, and include the design phase through construction, occupancy, and operations. Obtaining a peer review by someone other than the actual designer to truly determine if the plans are properly constructed is an important part of the Owner’s due diligence process, insuring that the building operates initially as intended. This commissioning process includes verifying that the building staff are prepared to operate and maintain its systems and equipment.

• Design review
• Functional Testing
• Written Commissioning Logs
• Review of Trends and Tests
• Operational & Maintenance Procedures & Manuals
• Training of Staff

Functional test scripts in addition to the system’s prefunctional tests should be developed for each major piece of equipment, all control reset sequences, all equipment staging, and all anticipated failure scenarios.

Data Center Facility Commissioning
A variety of components and systems power, cool and protect critical mission facilities. It is the proper coordination of these processes that makes an integrated infrastructure. A deficiency in one component may compromise the operation and performance of the entire facility. In many cases, with data centers and other mission critical facilities, the initial designs by engineers are based on potential system failures. However, it is crucial to apply more definitive steps and procedures in order to evaluate and assess vital links.

Facilities, Asset & Property Management Consulting

In order for a large organization to maintain control and expenses, retain an orderly system to oversee large volumes of properties or facilities, it is imperative to institute proper processes and procedures. The experts at KT have been in the field and understand how challenging the task of managing assets from a centralized location across the nation. We offer a quick turnaround analysis of the organization’s costs, effectiveness of procedures, software, and staffing. KT’s team is able to implement the new procedures while allowing the organization’s staff to maintain the current volume of tasks at hand without backup or disruption. Our clients are offered a simple transition with an extremely large reduction of corporate expenditures by simplifying steps and alleviating many unnecessary costs and overhead. In many instances even reducing additional offices and locations by centralizing the structure, whether in-house or outsourcing, based on our client’s needs.

Additional Services:

~Review current work orders for Cost Control
~Facility Inspections and followup to insure proper repair completion
~Vetting and Training of Maintenance, Service Technicians, & Administrative Service Staffing
~General Inspections for Quality Control
~Assistance in retaining national vendor contracts via bidding

KT Consulting International offers its real estate services through its strategic alliance with International Luxury, a licensed real estate brokerage. This division offers expertise and unique perspectives using a “hands-on” team approach obtained over decades of experience in real estate investments. Our services include:

• Owner’s Representative
• Property Evaluation
• Marketing, Advertising & Re-Branding
• Vetting of prospective Key Employees
• Temporary placement
• Training
• On-Site Sales & Leasing
• Distressed/Non-Comforming to Performing
• Budget Analysis & Implementation
• Policy & Procedures Manuals
• HOA & Condo Association Transitions

KT Consulting International’s real estate consulting services are available to assist developers, real estate corporations, investors and owners in their quest to attain the highest return for their investments.

KT Consulting International can assist sureties in minimizing the risk on troubled or defaulted projects.

KT can provide the forensic analyses required to enable the Surety to make difficult decisions with confidence and speed. KT will advocate the implementation of timely, cost-effective solutions to the complex issues facing the Surety.

The KT approach to the sureties needs:

• Estimation of Work in place
• Costs to Complete
• Identify replacement contractor(s), negotiate new contract with replacement
• Forensic examination and review of the construction documents and correspondence
• Risk Management and Forensic Analysis of Time Delays and Construction Costs

We can quickly implement and supply a field representative directly to the project.

Other services include:

• Construction Field Supervision
• Estimating
• Scheduling
• Adjudication, Negotiation & Mediation
• Expert Witness
• Claim Analysis
• Delay Analysis
• Dispute Resolution
• Default termination Analysis
• Takeover assistance

KT Consulting International can help guide insurance companies with loss claims and or damages submitted. Insurance carriers are aware that many claims/damages submitted for payment or reimbursements are loaded with unnecessary costs and falsehoods.

Our professionals can estimate and interpolate real damages with a detailed replacement and impact cost estimate; this service we provide will help to mitigate the inflated cost risk to insurance carriers by using fair industry proven practices.

Our Services include:

• Detailed Claims Review

• Claims Investigation and Reports
• Expert Assignment (type of claim)
• Delay Review and Impact Assessment
• Detailed Cost Estimate
• Carrier Representation and Document Preparation
• Negotiation service
• Expert Witness
• Arbitration, Mediation, Adjudication

KT specializes in using “state of the art” scheduling techniques to improve the overall performance of the project. Our associates are proficient in P5/P6, P3 and Suretrak; having utilized Primavera products for more then 30 years.

Additionally, KT utilizes CPM scheduling. Our experienced group will develop, analyze, monitor and update project schedules and other project reporting procedures. Each CPM schedule developed can be customized to our clients’ specific needs.

Our estimation experts can design and implement a construction master and preliminary schedule. We can evaluate construction acceleration of a project, time delays and impact, schedule delays, disruptions and construction productivity losses.

Complete Construction Estimating

KT Consulting International, unlike many other consulting firms, first applies a manual “nuts and bolts approach” to estimating construction costs. Additionally, KT applies a sophisticated computer-generated estimating software. The use of both estimating approaches provides our clients with the best of both worlds. KT Consulting International and the process of delivering accuracy:

Our in-house teams of individual “trade experts” contribute to the overall accuracy of every budget and estimate we produce. Additionally, we evaluate geographical logistics, including trade differentials based on locality, and apply those factors into each individual project estimate. The estimate compilations are detailed, conclusive and easy for our clients to evaluate, making them invaluable. This offers our client the ease in making decisions with confidence. Our estimate will provide assurance that investments are properly funded and the project can move forward without delay.

Our group specializes in construction delays and construction claims. Our professional associates have worked for Owners, Developers, Financial institutions, Sureties, Construction contractors, Accounting firms, as well as Federal Government, States, Counties and Municipalities.

Our Services include:

• Claims Analysis
• Time Impact Claims and Evaluation
• Schedule Disputes
• Schedule Acceleration Claims and Analysis
• Damage and Forensic Assessment Evaluation
• Litigation Preparation
• Expert Testimony/Witness
• Insurance Claims and Analysis

KT offers a unique, collective approach utilizing a group of our associates to determine damages associated with all claims and disputes.

As part of our claims assessment service, we pool the advice of several key players to determine the correct course of action and end result.

This unique approach translates to a successful claims resolution for our clients.

It is our approach at KT to tackle problems before they become issues; there are however, circumstances where matters proceed to negotiation, arbitration or litigation. KT’s qualified experts can offer an array of support options. Our methodologies and techniques can prove to be invaluable during the course of negotiated and litigated matters. The professionals at KT provide a superior grasp of the nuances of construction, which can give you a decided advantage in your construction dispute.

Litigation Support

KT provides qualified construction experience in the face of litigation activity. KT’s staff will collaborate with attorneys to develop legal strategy, participate in the decision-making process, and assist in determining the best plan for litigating a dispute.

KT’s approach is as follows:

• Assist with Case Discovery
• Advise on Construction / Contract Standards
• Design Multimedia Presentations
• Prepare Trial Graphics and Exhibits

When it is crucial that your litigation team have the support of industry leading professionals, allow KT to provide you with the advantages you and your clients may need.

Expert Reporting and Testimony

In many cases the testimony of a key expert witness can be the difference between winning and losing your dispute. The professional staff of qualified construction experts at KT can provide expert reporting and testimony services across the United States for the purposes of trial, arbitration and mediation. We employ proven techniques, so you can approach your case with the confidence that the objective analysis we provide will hold up to the most aggressive scrutiny.