Cost Consulting, General Contracting & Construction Management

Costcon provides comprehensive cost planning services to support long-term campus, facility, or portfolio master planning initiatives. Services include development of high-level capital cost models for proposed new construction, renovations, expansions, infrastructure improvements, site development, and phased implementation strategies. Cost estimates are developed using available planning information, historical cost data, benchmarking, escalation assumptions, and appropriate project allowances.

Services may include evaluation of multiple planning scenarios, comparison of development alternatives, establishment of preliminary project budgets, cash flow projections, escalation forecasting, and identification of major cost drivers. The objective is to provide decision-makers with reliable cost information to support prioritization, funding strategies, phasing, and long-term capital planning.

Costcon provides cost estimating support for Facility Condition Assessment (FCA) programs to quantify the anticipated cost of repairing, replacing, or upgrading existing building systems and components. Costing may address architectural, structural, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire protection, vertical transportation, site, civil, and other facility-related deficiencies identified during the assessment process.

Services include assigning appropriate repair or replacement costs to identified deficiencies, applying soft costs and project allowances where applicable, and organizing costs by building, system, priority, and anticipated year of expenditure. Cost data can also support the calculation and development of Facility Condition Index (FCI) metrics and deferred maintenance liabilities.

The resulting cost information provides a consistent basis for evaluating facility needs across an individual building, campus, or portfolio and supports informed maintenance and capital renewal decisions.

Costcon provides capital budgeting services to assist owners in developing, prioritizing, and managing short- and long-term capital improvement programs. Services include consolidation of project costs and facility needs into multi-year capital plans, development of budget forecasts, evaluation of project priorities, and alignment of anticipated expenditures with available funding.

Capital budgets may incorporate deferred maintenance, facility renewal, regulatory and life-safety requirements, modernization initiatives, renovations, infrastructure improvements, and planned capital projects. Services may also include escalation modeling, contingency and soft-cost allowances, cash flow forecasting, funding scenario analysis, and preparation of annual or multi-year capital expenditure plans.

The objective is to establish a defensible and transparent capital budgeting framework that enables leadership to understand future funding requirements, prioritize investments, manage risk, and allocate capital effectively.