Skillful and comprehensive trade management.
The trades are experiencing an historic labor shortage. That puts the trades in a powerful position to negotiate. It takes a proficient, proven GC with the ability to assure trade labor that they’ll have the best possible opportunity to succeed through efficiency not higher rates.
Working with the client and providers, Pacific West accounts for every detail, which is only possible when you’re building a proven Product with proven methods (click here for more on Product building versus Project building).
We eliminate scheduling conflicts, provide trade resources with access to accurate, detailed information starting from the planning stages. We draw up detailed, unambiguous scopes of work, and communicate a clear understanding of the client’s goals.
Pacific West’s advanced approach to contracting elevates subcontractors, and other providers. It grants them the respect and working conditions they require. It quickly untangles disputes and conflicts.
It’s a proven approach that has helped us secure long-term working relationships with the finest trade resources in the industry, and why we have access to the deepest labor pool in the western U.S. at the best available rates.
Motivation as a
Construction Tool
To be successful, a project must have motivated contributors. It needs companies working with, and not against, each other.
Great projects don’t just happen. They’re not a product of luck or size or brute strength. We’ve found that great projects are earned through superior research, strategic management, flawless coordination and sequencing, and long-term working relationships with superior resources. But all that becomes less significant unless a GC has the ability to instill a common goal among project participants.
Key to that ability is motivation as a tool. The most important part of our job might be instilling a collaborative attitude into everyone who works on a project. It’s about putting everyone involved with a project in a position to operate at the highest level of efficiency. We meld more than a dozen subcontractors and resources into a cohesive, cost-effective team with one goal: develop a market-leading product.
The many trades necessary for a multi-family product aren’t going to give a developer preferred pricing and scheduling unless they’re guaranteed the chance to succeed. And that success and profitability must be highly probable.
If you ask a subcontractor to work under an extremely tight deadline at a desired price point, you have to assure them you’ll eliminate the factors that can affect their performance. It’s the only way to get premier subcontractors to agree to preferred pricing. You can’t succeed unless a provider is motivated. We make sure they are.
It’s a challenge that’s compounded due to the complex nature of multi-family projects. Project coordinators have to meet conditions of a dozen or more subcontractors. Often, the conditions among the many subs are conflicting.
Untangling those conflicts, and being able to meet the many different conditions, takes:
Precision scheduling
Detailed and timely information on a subcontractor’s scope of work
Bringing subs together from the pre-construction stage to work out sequencing schedules
And it all has to be done in the planning
stages of a project. Anything later is too late.
