The Top Construction Program Management Strategies You Need to Know.

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Construction and Program Management
CHANGING LIVES FOR GOOD
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Armand Corporation takes responsibility for
realizing dreams, rebuilding hope, and restoring
faith in communities across America. Our acute
expertise and process in construction and
program management derive from specialized
services tailored to specifics that bring out
the best in ourselves, partners, participants,
and the diverse range of client agencies we
serve wherever there is a need.
Know About Us
Armand provides leadership in program and
construction management for public, private, and
partnership-based entities across and beyond U.S.
borders from assessment to execution and
everything in between. Working in a cross-section
of community-facing sectors with agencies
ranging from the New York City Housing Authority
and the New Jersey Department of Transportation
to the School District of Philadelphia, Armand
leads our clients through planning and decision
making with data-backed analysis in cost,
schedule, quality, safety, and feasibility to
control variables and achievability every step
of the way. From multi-family housing,
education, transportation, utilities, to
full-scale community disaster recovery and
resiliency programs, Armand partners with people
to improve places through proven processes, and
repeated performance. Incorporated April 16,
1991, Armand understands that client and
community trust is earned through reliability.
We appreciate the weight of responsibility our
clients entrust us with. We excel in complex,
high-stakes community regeneration programs
where client agencies are tasked with scopes and
responsibilities of all but overwhelming
proportions. Armand guides clients through a
customized suite of services intended to address
each clients particular needs. With over thirty
years of expertise, we provide supervisory
services, program and project management, and
administrative functions required for planning,
assessment, execution, and reporting. We strive
to maximize funding to goals through integrated
cost estimates, scheduling, safety, quality
assurance and control methodologies for every
assignment.
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Our Services

• Construction Management at Risk
• Construction Management as Agent Program
  Management
• Design-Build

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Know About Construction Management at Risk
Armands success in CMAR stems from our ability
to harmoniously orchestrate a symphony of
different moving parts simultaneously. Beginning
with the owner/agency and encompassing the entire
architecture, engineering, and subcontracted
construction team, CMAR necessitates a
forward-focused approach to collaboration and
communication across all project variables to
compel win-win solutions to any
challenge. Leveraging a team-think process, the
CMAR delivery method joins owners, designers, and
builders in dissecting opportunities and
obstacles to arrive at a Guaranteed Maximum
Price (GMP) based on the construction documents,
plans and specifications, and appropriate
contingency. Acting as a consultant to the owner,
Armand drives the preconstruction process
through budgeting, estimating, scheduling,
quality assurance, safety planning,
constructability, and site logistics planning
before establishing an all- inclusive,
not-to-exceed cost to complete the work. Once the
GMP is agreed to, Armand manages subcontractor
prequalification, bidding, and selection
processes to establish the full suite of
construction resources required to deliver the
project on-time and on-budget to the owners
satisfaction. The great benefits of the CMAR
delivery method compared to a Bid-Build delivery
are succinctly summarized by communication and
control. In establishing a mutually beneficial
partnership around project success between the
design and construction team, the CMAR process
largely eliminates the potential for adversarial
relationships that can predominate non-negotiated
construction programs. When impediments to
success arise, Armand works side-by-side with
architects, engineers, and owners to understand
challenges and holistically assess solutions that
balance cost, schedule, quality, and
constructability for the good of the whole. The
owners risk is limited through Armands advocacy
in best- value decision making prior to GMP and
through precise project management and
performance measurement processes once
construction begins.
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Know About Construction Management as Agent
Serving in an advisory capacity to the client,
Armands success in Construction Manager as Agent
stems from our deep appreciation for people,
places, processes, and performance. Large-scale
commercial construction is enmeshed in
complexities of many sorts. From financial and
schedule controls to best- value selections in
means, methods, materials, and resources,
strategic, holistic decision making is always
the epicenter of successful execution. In
institutional settings, where there are often
long-range, ancillary variables associated with
master planning, facility conditions, funding
partners, and stakeholders, the need for a
well-rounded construction management advisor
becomes ever more prudent. Armands role in CM
as Agent execution is applied from the
intersection of experience, expertise, and the
ability to judiciously manage many personalities
and occasionally competing interests. Working as
the Owners Representative, in CM as Agent our
job is to assess situational specifics and
assimilate varying perspectives toward a common
center of mutual success for all involved. For
Armand, each CM as Agent program begins with
assigning a single point-of-contact project
manager. The project manager will shepherd the
client, consultants, and stakeholders through the
design and construction processes as an
owner-invested expert in the big picture and
fine-grain details of project delivery. As the
needs, expectations, challenges, and
opportunities of the project reveal themselves,
the project manager will tap into Armands
extensive bank of supplemental professional
resources. Our ability to add expertise in
architecture, engineering, construction, cost
estimating, schedule management, safety
management, construction inspection,
construction administration, and contract
compliance where needed, allows Armand to apply
the right expertise and resources to the clients
benefit regardless of circumstance. Whether as
an agent or an at-risk contractor, in
construction earning the clients trust is job
one. Operating from a platform of integrity,
Armand advises CM as Agent clients through sound,
data-backed situational recommendations as
project conditions necessitate. Our comprehensive
project analysis is greatly enhanced by a
learned ability to understand the parts and
pieces as well as the people and processes that
intertwine to make each project wholly distinct
and uniquely important to the clients that hire
us.
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Know About Program Management
Working as an extension of the contracting
entity, Armand provides comprehensive Program
Management services to municipal, regional, and
state government agencies faced with overwhelming
workloads. Our rigorous, process-based
experience in a diverse range of public-facing
construction assignments allows us to provide
flexible, adaptable Program Management services
as an embedded consultant advisor and workforce
resource. Change management is a critical
constant for many public sector agencies faced
with daunting, large- scale, multi-project
community recovery or institutional
rehabilitation programs. While municipal
agencies often have internal construction
management professionals, many are underprepared
to manage the depth and breadth of assignments
involved in a federally funding disaster recovery
program when time is of the essence and
execution requires stringent compliance, control,
and reporting. Beginning with assessment and
extending through project prioritization and
construction realization, Armand supports
clients with dedicated, seasoned construction
administrators who help quantify situational
specifics and provide long-range recommendations
on best-value project investments and
management. Program Managers are tasked with
financial compliance, resource management,
program and project documentation in strict
compliance with funding agency requirements.
Armands team is presently overseeing
construction execution on an array of assignments
ranging from heavy civil infrastructure and
institutional rehabilitation to single-family
home recovery in times of urgent need and
significant community impact. In all this work,
time management is imperative, as is our ability
to change gears on a moments notice in response
to a myriad of continually changing variables
that frequently surround these
projects. Appreciating both the micro and the
macro objectives of a particular program is the
starting point. Learning the workflow and
specific personalities involved on the client
level and tailoring the application of our
services to agency and individual needs and
expectations set the stage for smooth, efficient,
effective program management services. Armand
earns trust and respect while building
relationships that blossom into partnerships
while advancing a multi-project delivery in
synchronicity with time-sensitive funding,
compliance, and reporting.
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Know About Design-Build
Design-Build delivery requires consistent
collaboration across all disciplines to
synchronize owner expectations with design
achievability and the realities of construction
schedules, constraints, and logistics. Armand
serves as a vital advocate for excellence in all
regards by unifying each projects many diverse
influences around maximizing owner and user
benefits through strong communication and team
orchestration. Design-Build projects take
advantage of a single-point-of-accountability
approach that umbrellas designers, engineering,
and subconsultants under the design-builders
authority to save time and money in project
delivery by streamlining execution. Success in
this methodology begins with assessing and
assembling the right team and harmonizing owner
expectations with design and construction
perspectives from the projects earliest
interactions. The design solution and congruent
cost and schedule tracking are advanced through
owner approvals with deliberate intent.
Opportunities to compel beneficial cost and time
savings through early bid packages,
prefabrication strategies, and tighter control of
quality, safety, and logistics are all
integrated into design objectives from the
onset. Armand drives design-build success as a
prime contractor or key consultant with
meaningful expertise in budgeting, estimating,
scheduling, quality assurance, safety planning,
constructability, site logistics, subcontractor
selection, and oversight. Well-established
project controls begin with a resolute
commitment to process-based, data-driven
determinations that balance cost, schedule,
quality, and constructability for the good of
the whole, which ultimately translates to
achievability and benefit maximization. The
clients expectations are met through Armands
ability to critically control the projects
movement through process management. From start
to finish, Armand earns client confidence by
clearly defining project expectations around
program, functionality, sustainability, and
operational performance and actively leading the
project to fruition. Armand earns the teams
respect by closely tying the costs and schedule
implications of design determinations on
materials and systems with actionable logistics
and advantageous sequencing to improve project
performance in design-build delivery.
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