Owner-aligned construction management for projects from $100K to $5M. Scope alignment, competitive bid coordination, vendor compliance and on-site execution. Our 3 to 6 percent fee is CAM recoverable and routed through the lease.
projects@handleproservices.com · Fee recoverable through CAM at renewal
Construction projects finishing over planned budget, with a 15 percent average cost increase from changes alone. (IDC/Procore 2021)
Average U.S. office fit-out cost in 2026, up more than 40 percent from pre-pandemic levels. (C&W 2026)
77 percent of projects finish late. For occupied buildings the delay converts to tenant disruption and deferred rent. (IDC/Procore 2021)
CBRE's project management division requires a 40,000 square foot minimum on occupier TI. JLL and Cushman scale their project services similarly. The entire mid-market TI and capital segment, everything from a 5,000 square foot office fit-out to a $600K HVAC replacement to a $1.2M lobby renovation, falls through the gap between institutional firms and boutique owner's reps. That leaves the work on the property manager's desk.
Property managers were hired to run buildings, not construction projects. Only 24 percent of owners report being adequately staffed for financial governance on construction work. 85 percent rely on Excel, SharePoint and Dropbox to manage projects that would never survive a change-order audit. Vendor compliance is tracked manually. Change orders approve without benchmark data. TI budgets at lease execution use stale pricing. The result is exactly what the IDC data describes, projects over budget, behind schedule and blind to portfolio-level cost discipline.
We translate the landlord's work letter or the owner's capital plan into a bid-ready scope. Budget is benchmarked against Cushman & Wakefield and JLL fit-out data.
Three qualified GCs minimum on every project. COI verification, schedule alignment and reference checks happen before bids open.
Handle enforces insurance requirements, manages site access and runs the weekly OAC meeting. All communication routes through one project lead.
Vendor performance, actual versus budget and change order reasons feed the portfolio database. The next project starts from benchmarked data, not from zero.
10,000 to 100,000 square foot TI projects on a regular cadence.
Unit turnover capital programs, amenity renovations and value-add CapEx.
PIP execution, brand standard renovation and conversion CM.
Reserve-funded capital projects where the board needs professional oversight.
Between the owner and the property manager, needing a defensible project line of authority.
Projects from $100K to $5M. Below $100K runs as part of Service Management. Above $5M is scoped as a multi-phase program. Reach out to projects@handleproservices.com.
We represent the owner, not the contractor. We competitively bid the GC, enforce scope and schedule, review change orders against benchmark data and close out on behalf of ownership. The GC still builds the project. We make sure the owner gets what they paid for.
Fee is 3 to 6 percent of project cost depending on complexity and property type. Because the fee is for project coordination on behalf of the asset, most leases allow the cost to be passed through CAM on a proportional basis like property management fees. We confirm lease treatment at kickoff.
No. Owners can bring their preferred GCs and trades. Handle's network is available as one of three bid slots when the owner does not have a preferred roster for a particular trade or market.
Anything under $100K typically runs through Service Management rather than Project Management. The overhead of competitive bidding and formal change order workflow does not earn its keep on small jobs.
Yes. Expense Audit findings on capital line items often surface projects that Handle PM then executes. The vendor network is shared across both products, which means compliance documentation only has to be captured once.
Whether it is a single 8,000 square foot office TI, a 40-unit multifamily renovation, a lobby repositioning or a capital plan covering the next three years, book a 15-minute call and we will scope it and confirm CAM treatment on the same call.