Distress & Stalled Project Support

Projects stall for specific, findable reasons. A permit will not clear because the drawings never answered a comment. A contractor walked and took the schedule logic with them. The budget no longer matches the drawings because three months of decisions were never priced. A sequence collapsed in the field and nobody rebuilt it. Very rarely is the cause the vague one everybody is repeating in the meetings.

We start by establishing the real state of the job — not the reported one. That means reading the contract and the permit file, walking the site, checking what is genuinely complete against what has been billed, and finding the one or two constraints that everything else is waiting on. Owners are often surprised by how narrow the actual blockage turns out to be once it is isolated.

From there we restore a realistic path and put the next actions in order: who has to decide, what has to be re-bid or redesigned, which permit needs a resubmittal, and what the site can actually support in its current condition. You get a sequence with an owner assigned to each step, not a list of concerns.

Owners and partners hire this as consulting on both commercial and residential work. If the recovery requires dedicated cost or field control, it moves to project rescue and resolution under construction management without starting over. When the underlying problem is the asset itself rather than the schedule, start with a failing asset evaluation.