Reichhardt & Ebe provides full-service construction management for projects we designed in-house as well as for designs prepared by others. Our services include project management, contract administration, construction project engineering, and construction inspection and observation. We have a continuing record of completing construction management in full compliance with WSDOT and Federal Highway Administration requirements.
Day to day, that means contract administration, on-site inspection, submittal and pay-estimate review, and clear documentation of progress and change. We hold the work to the design intent and to public-agency standards, catching issues in the field before they become costly.
Our approach to project management
We believe our approach to project management is what sets us apart. Our teams build close working relationships between everyone involved, from the project manager to the field inspectors to our project administration staff. We use custom-developed tracking tools to keep material submittals current and to calculate composite pay factors accurately.
Our staff can provide every aspect of construction management, including project documentation that meets the requirements for locally, state, and federally funded work: project inspection, federally funded project documentation, constructability reviews, and full project management.
Why our expertise makes a difference
Civil designers sometimes become so focused on a design that they miss how it will play out during construction. Those issues tend to surface as constructability problems or as disputes over methods of measurement and payment.
For as long as we have provided design services, we have also provided construction management and construction engineering, on private projects and on municipal projects funded locally, by the state, and federally. We made a deliberate decision to involve all of our design engineers in construction management, so they understand how to prepare plans and specifications that avoid those problems. We also bring our inspection staff into constructability reviews of plans and specifications before a project goes out to bid.
Specialty experience
Years of work as municipal consultants have taught us the specific skills a public project demands. Two areas where that shows:
HMA acceptance and composite pay factors
Through ongoing dialog with the WSDOT materials laboratory, we have helped identify inconsistencies between DOT and APWA specifications and developed a working understanding of proper HMA acceptance testing and of composite pay factor calculations for both quality and compaction.
WSDOT and FHWA audits
We take particular pride in our attention to detail during project documentation. A WSDOT Northwest Region representative told us that the only two material documentation audits in which they had no findings were projects managed by Reichhardt & Ebe. We have also served as construction manager on one of only a handful of projects selected for FHWA billing reviews in the Northwest, and an FHWA billing review of our documentation on a recent ARRA project returned no findings or deficiencies.
Clients get a single, accountable point of contact from notice-to-proceed through final acceptance.