Services
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New construction technologies, volatile financial markets, and ever evoloving return to work policies will impact how we manage projects going forward.
To help navigate this ambiguity, we build dashboards and automation to get your team out ahead of the project. With the implementation of simple tools, emphasis on transparency and communication, and a flexible but disciplined mindset is how we deliver construction projects on time and on budget. Acila focuses on tools and methodologies to be the best at what we do:
Focused, but fast-paced work sessions to guide teams to consensus and develop execution plans, using agile methodologies.
Training on how to continue to work remotely, including implementing well-run, shorter, but more frequent meetings, along with transparency in information sharing.
Consistent, rigorous weekly sprint process to establish predictability, trust, and peer accountability.
Support on innovations including modular and manufactured building strategies.
Ensuring contract commitments are clear, transparent, available for reference, and are governing every step of the process with outside parties.
Implementing live team dashboards and technologies that give teams a view into project metrics to keep teams within budget, on schedule, and on a clear path to escalate if necessary.
Project Management is foundation of what we do. Using agile methodologies, and easy-to-use technology-based tools, we create project transparency that enables clients to quickly visualize, understand, and solve project roadblocks in real-time, on construction projects of any scale. 
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Because many organizations do not retain construction management expertise in-house, hiring an Owner’s Representative can be a huge step towards mitigating project risk. Our varied experience in the AEC industry means that we know how projects come together and can provide valuable insight while brokering contracts, creating project budget, managing project team discipliens, and keeping the project on schedule.
Services may include, but are not limited to:
Scope and sequencing planning and activity assignment
Building and maintaining project schedules and budgets
Contract negotiation and representation with architects, contractors, engineers, local jurisdictions, and consultants
Grant and Fundraising support
Documentation and reporting status and performance metrics to the owner
Risk analysis and mitigation for traditional and modular/manufactured buildings
In the face of a complex capital project or complicated contractual relationship, we leverage valuable technical knowledge to identify and mitigate inherent project risks. We manage the way a project comes to fruition on your behalf so you can focus on your organization’s regular operations.
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What we consistently hear is that “institutional PMI strategies don’t apply enough to the A/E/C industry”, “Project Management software is too expensive and hard to learn,” “The people that conduct Project Management trainings don’t have a background in construction and therefore don’t understand how we work well enough to coach us.”
These are valid reasons why traditional project management consultants are not often brought in for training in construction and design firms. The way we as licensed building professionals work in this industry is unlike any other industry and this is always underestimated by outsiders. Because of Acila’s construction and design background, and being the recipient of inefficient project managment sitting on the owner’s side, we approach this training uncoventionally. Keeping the owner at the center of what we do, we teach techniques with the whole team of consultants and contractors in mind. Working under some of the best and brighted PMI trained professionals and software developers at a construction tech start-up provided us with insight into how to apply the best of traditional project management methodologies in software to an A/E/C team; with well documented and proven results.
Through a carefully crafted series of learning modules and workshops, we review what applies to the way you work and show your team how to create efficiencies and workflows that produce transparency and control.
Contact us if you’d like to see our latest training curriculum.
In the world of architecture, engineering, construction, no two project management methodologies are alike. While none are inherently wrong, where can architects, engineers, contractors, and designers go to understand the project managment gold standards, and methodologies - and more importantly, efficiencies - that apply best to this industry?