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Real estate development and construction

Everyone on your project sees where it really stands.

Owners, lenders, designers and builders each carry their own version of a project. We build one record they all work from: the drawings, the model, the budget, every change and every decision. Bring us in anywhere from the land deal to the construction documents.

Free design review for owners and developers

Chad Garrett

“On most projects, the owner is the last to know. I built GGP so you’re the first.”

Chad Garrett, Founder & CEO. 30 years in development and construction.

How our proprietary intelligence does it
A grading plan from GGP's sample design review, marked up with three clouded items and GGP's notes
Multifamily·Affordable housing·Mixed-use·Senior living·Healthcare and medical office·Hospitality·Light industrial········

The stakes

Your deal, your drawings and your budget will tell the same story.

Most projects run on three versions of the truth. The deal, the drawings and the budget each tell a different story. Nobody lines them up until the change order arrives.

The drawings don't match the deal.

The proforma was underwritten at one unit count. The design lands at fewer. The land and the loan didn't get smaller.

The budget doesn't match the drawings.

The budget was priced on an early set. The design kept growing and nobody repriced it. The bids did.

The report doesn't match the job.

The monthly report says on budget every month, until the month it doesn't.

GGP runs on one version of the truth, kept in the Living Project Record. The deal, the drawings, the budget and the report are checked against each other every time a new document comes in. When they start to drift apart, it's not too late to fix.

Most fires never start.

Crews working an elevated deck, seen from above

One rooftop unit, five handoffs

DealDeveloper's proformaOne recordMechanical and electrical carried at a cost per square footUnderwritten, and that number carried forward
DesignMechanical and electrical sheetsOne recordA 40-ton rooftop unit on the mechanical plan. No power to it on the electrical plan.Unit drawn on mechanical, not fed on electrical. Flagged.
BudgetEstimator's spreadsheetOne recordElectrical priced from the electrical sheets. The feeder isn't in the number.Feeder and breaker priced at bid time, not as a change order later
BuildContractor's scheduleOne recordFound at rough-in. A change order, and new gear on a long lead.Rough-in matches the drawings
Hand overProperty manager's binderOne recordAs-builts that don't show the fixThe record shows what was built, and where

Every sheet looked right on its own. The gap was between them, and the field found it.One record, read across every sheet, so the gap gets closed on paper before anyone orders equipment.

Context lost at the handoff

Checked against the record before it moves on

How we keep that promise

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We price it before you commit.

Concept budgets are stated at plus or minus 5 percent, with the big unknowns priced on their own lines.

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We build to one number.

We close the gaps in preconstruction, so they don't become your change orders.

Project dashboards

Everyone on the project gets a dashboard built from the same record.

Owners

Where the budget, the schedule and the open decisions stand today.

Lenders and investors

Whether the proforma still holds as real prices come in.

Design team

Every open question, the sheet it came from and who owns it.

Trade partners

The current drawings and the open questions on their scope.

We're building the dashboards into this site now. Until they're live, you get the same record as written reports.

See how the Living Project Record works
Rows of shoring under a newly poured deck
A pump boom placing concrete, seen from above
A rebar cage tied along the wall forms

Where to start

Start with a free design review.

We'll walk you through the findings in person, or just send the report. Your call.

The plan made is the plan kept.

Jeremiah 29:11