Professional Services
Our professional services are customized to your individual needs and are designed to maximize your organization’s return on investment, while significantly minimizing your project delivery risk. Utilizing our cost database and our vast library of lessons learned, your organization will recognize significant benefits from knowing that you are represented by seasoned professionals who have a truly remarkable track record of successfully delivering complex projects within a wide range of market sectors.
Turn-key Development Manager Services
Our Development Manager services provide oversight during the entire development process, including economic feasibility studies, financing strategy identification, program verification, project design, construction, and Owner occupancy. The result is a project that fulfills your broad vision of success while ensuring that construction is safely completed according to the program’s scope and specifications. As a result, our projects yield remarkable, and often unexpected positive returns for our clients.
Project Management
More and more, clients desire the seamless, simplified experience of having a highly qualified single point of contact manage their design and construction teams. As your Brand Ambassador, we deploy our Project Management systems to provide our clients an accelerated project delivery cycle and reduced risk while allowing you to retain control in the selection of the design and construction firms. Our pragmatic and collaborative process keeps ‘best value’ determinations at the forefront of all project decisions. We have built our reputation on the premise that a proactive management style is essential to the success of any design/build effort, and our team offers you our thorough understanding and experience to guarantee your project’s success.
Construction Consulting
Whether you are an Owner looking to gain an independent perspective on a planned project or you are a private investor looking to place long held equity into an off-campus student housing project, our development consulting services are offered with one specific goal: to represent our clients’ best interests in the development of their project. With highly sophisticated and complex projects you will want an expert partner by your side who will provide the insight and guidance needed to protect your organization’s interests. As an extension of your staff, we will leverage our management team’s expansive library of ‘Lessons Learned’ which has been earned from our over 50 years of active experience developing and constructing projects.
Forensic Assessment / Failure Analysis / Hydrology
For many building owners, aging facilities can create challenges even greater than those posed with new construction, especially when those issues are associated with latent defects, construction deficiencies or changed hydrology. With many of these issues being discovered outside of the construction warranty period, without litigation, the cost of repair for these complex issues will rest with the building owner. Without the analysis provided by a forensic audit there is usually little to no opportunity for financial recovery from the responsible party. UDS and our team of consultants can provide detailed assessments and reports for any type of building failure, from building envelope, water instruction, HVAC, structural to hydrologic studies.
Specialty Consulting – Student Housing
Having planned and developed over 17,500 student housing beds, we understand that the construction of student housing facilities is a complex and risk-laden initiative. In a highly collaborative environment, we will explore with you all of the project delivery options that will allow your organization to make the most of your personnel resources, capital assets and debt service capacity.
As your project partner, UDS offers a full range of development and consulting services to meet your specific needs. Through carefully planned transactions, we structure our resources to reduce your project delivery risk while ensuring that an institutional grade facility will be delivered on time and within budget.
