F.E. Hawkins Group’s versatility can be attributed to our highly experienced real estate professionals and to our business model. The members of our development team vary based upon the project type, location, and complexities of each project. We assemble a group of specialized professionals based upon the specific project needs. This strategy enables us to partner with the best architects, contractors, consultants, leasing agents, and property managers for each project.

F.E. Hawkins Group’s offers diversity programs for minority and new developers. The diversity program is not intended to restrict instead we achieve our diversity vision by strengthening individuals and businesses. We will establish and constantly improve a process of inclusion that works toward our vision and exceeds all project requirements and goals.

We outlined a scope of services that can be offered to you. The decision as to whom you select to provide the management and performance of your real estate project should be firms who you are confident would be available to you in the future. No entity would fit that mold better than us. We will establish a commonality of goals for your future success that will transcend any other relationship you may have or develop.

We look forward to hearing from you in connection with your future real estate development goals.

Preliminary Plans
We assist our clients with the preliminary plans to include initial interviews and site visits, project target market, operating budget and the selection of appropriate services, contractors and vendors for the project.

Project Management & Administration- Staffing
Our staff will assist with the overall management of the project by obtaining the necessary arrangements with regards to meeting zoning/rezoning requirements, meeting with public officials, and monitoring the time frame of meeting deadlines and completing the project. We will include in our proposal a list of the field and office staff designations we anticipate for your project. Also included will be a brief job description for each staff member. We will attach a preliminary schedule that shows the job participation by each staff member, i.e., the duration that they would be actively involved with the project. Our cost projections will be based upon this schedule and it would certainly be more fine-tuned, as definitive plans are developed, to more fully define the scope of work and the project schedule.

Financing
We will assist the client in preparing financial statements completing the application process to the conversion of funding. We also assist our clients in selecting and negotiating with lenders and grantors for the best terms/rates.

Construction Management
Our staff will assist the builder/developer with the bidding and negotiating of all types of construction contracts. We will work with the selected design team to establish budgets for the various design systems and phases selected and produced. We will perform feasibility analysis and studies investigating alternative methods, materials and procedures to provide the client and design team the critical information necessary to make the decisions that result in a desired final product at the lowest possible cost.

As design phases are completed, we will prepare bid packages and submit them for quotation from the most qualified subcontractors available. All bidders will be pre-qualified by us prior to being asked to participate in the process. Being a seasoned Owner/Developer/Builder, we are very familiar with the best subcontractors available in the area. The bid document will contain the scope of work as well as relevant "boilerplate" contract information necessary to assure that all bidders have the information required to provide the most competitive and complete quotations.

We will analyze and assess all bid returns to determine that there are no qualifications to the bid that create future concerns and problems. We will maintain liaison with all subcontractors during the bidding phases and issue addenda and clarifications as they may develop and be necessary. As performance of the work progresses, we will evaluate all invoices to assure that they are consistent with the terms of the contract and the performance of the work in the field.

We will evaluate and negotiate all change orders and update budgets and variances as they may occur. All approvals of additions and credits to the budget will be coordinated with the client. No unauthorized change orders will be accepted.

Monthly draw down meetings will be held with the client (and/or the clients lenders) to review and approve contractor disbursements. Further, monthly (or more frequently, if required) cost status reports will be issued indicating the original budget, variances, updated budget and disbursements. Projections of final expenses and costs will be included.

The goal of cost control is to assure that the client is always aware of the financial status of the job and what the projected outcome of the costs of the project will be. Early detection of potential cost variances is critical to controlling costs of construction and development.

Scheduling
Another critical aspect of the construction process is scheduling. Early consideration and awareness of the events necessary to produce a finished product is mandatory to assure that architectural/engineering plans, details and shop drawings, construction materials and equipment are on hand when needed, individual contractors do not interfere or delay each other in the performance of their work, timely inspections are held by the various required government and testing agencies to assure that the next phase of work can continue, and contractors are aware of what is expected of them, in advance, so as to make their performance as smooth and continuous as is possible.

Our procedure to produce a schedule involves the cooperation of all the designers, trades, vendors, suppliers, and agencies involved. Initially, we prepare an overall schedule that blocks out the time periods necessary for each trade. Consideration is given to those long lead items (e.g. steel, elevators, escalators, HVAC equipment, specialties and finishes, etc.) and where possible and practical, we will recommend preordering (prior to subcontracts award) of materials to facilitate timely receipt of materials and equipment. Allowance for weather sensitive construction phases (concrete, masonry, exterior facade, and roofing) will also be made.

As subcontracts are let, we will require the subcontractor to prepare a more detailed schedule of their work that would fit within the general time parameters of the overall schedule we prepared. Obviously, subcontractor-generated schedules must fit within the overall performance goals of the project as well as be integrated with the requirements of the other trades. We will assure that control of the schedule design is maintained.

As a result of the above, a realistic and comprehensive schedule of events is developed that results in a game plan that all the players (major subcontractors) have had an active hand in helping to prepare.

As the job progresses and events occur, the schedule will be adjusted to allow for the normal and extraordinary events that occur in the construction process. Various tasks will be accelerated (or decelerated) to accommodate conditions that develop. The schedule becomes an active and flexible tool that encourages and allows for the smoothest, most efficient sequence of events in the construction process. This will translate into the most expeditious and economical completion of the job.

We will continually maintain the construction progress, update and adjust the schedule, inform all relevant parties of the changes, and in general, control the momentum and flow of the construction process to its conclusion.