Project Management

We offer a wide range of construction management services.  Our goal is that your project runs according to your needs and expectations.

Free Contractor Referrals

We always encourage you to maintain a good relationship with those contractors with whom you have worked in the past and have been happy with their work.  If the time has come to change contractors, or if you do not have a relationship with a waterworks contractor, we are happy to provide as many referrals as you would like.  Most contractors are honest and do good work.  Some have specialties or have certain personal or technical strengths.  Through managing 350 small water systems, we have had the opportunity to get to know almost all of the contractors in the water world.

Project Management

We can assist you with keeping your project on-time and on-budget.  We can assist with the entire process from bid documents, to construction inspections, to the final testing and certification.

Bid Documents

We develop bid documents that are more than just boiler plate material.  Our bid documents do more then only allow you to obtain fair, apple-to-apples bids.  They help you define how you want your project to be completed.  They answer questions such as “How long can a customer be out of water?” and “Who is responsible for Mrs. Anderson’s flower bed that was put in 20 years ago right in the middle of the right-of-way?”

We have had respected contractors in the waterworks industry review our bid documents to ensure that they “make sense” and do not leave contractors the opportunity for expensive change orders, or leave so much uncertainty that the contractors need to inflate their bid to cover all their unanswered questions.

Construction Inspection

We can either provide direct construction inspection services, or we can train members of your community to do the inspections.  It is especially important to have construction inspection on work that will be buried (waterlines) because once it is covered, it is very, very expensive and very difficult to show if the installation was done correctly.

We view construction inspections of underground work as being very inexpensive insurance.  It protects you as the community from poor workmanship, or from being billed for work that was not actually completed.  It also protects the contractor from being unjustly accused if a problem arises.  If the installation is clearly and thoroughly documented, future problems are less likely to arise, but when they do, the attitude is “how can we fix this together.  If there is no documentation, or inadequate documentation, problems are more likely and result in fights, blame, and lawsuits.