JLC Associates is a full service General Contractor providing Clients with professional Project Managers, Superintendents and Office Support. JLC Associates has the ability to mold to any size project, large, medium or small, with Project Teams having the skill sets needed to achieve success. The fact that ninety percent of our business is either through referral or with repeat Clients demonstrates that success. JLC Associates does not 'self perform' any work. Not doing so maintains an extremely low overhead burden and very competitive insurance rates — savings that we are able to pass along to our Clients.
In most cases Clients need a trusted reliable entity to steer the project gaining assurances that all Team Members are on board for a successful completion. JLC Associates can provide project delivery as Construction Managers (CM) or Construction Managers at risk (CM at risk). Involving JLC Associates as CM or CM at risk will lead to a more manageable project guaranteeing higher quality with less cost and a minimized schedule. JLC Associates input during pre-construction providing Program Scheduling, budgets, value engineering and constructability reviews will add value to the project for a minimal cost.
The purpose of Due Diligence studies is to provide a potential buyer or tenant of a particular building with information about the building's conditions and how those conditions may affect value, occupancy, schedule, constructability, etc. JLC Associates' extensive experience enables us to provide Due Diligence Services to assess all of these components and other aspects that can prove to add to or detract from the suitability of the building for the intended use.
Key parts of a study typically include observations to access interior, exterior and site conditions, a review of available construction documents for the purposes of evaluating the original design, architectural, civil and other values and mechanical, electrical and fire/life safety systems, Building Code, ADA and Zoning compliance, consideration of service life of major components such as elevators/escalators, air conditioning units, cooling towers, main electrical panels/breakers, buss duct, roofing, review of Public Records as relates to Zoning, Planning, Fire Department access, etc.
All evaluations can be 'real time' or through a five or ten year projection. Our reporting includes but is not limited to a complete listing of issues in all categories, implications relating to those issues and estimates of costs to remediate, repair, upgrade or replace construction that is at issue. Due Diligence studies sometimes prevent a sale or a lease from being executed due to discoveries made during the study. Usually this occurs at the benefit of the proposed buyer or proposed tenant.