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Owner's representation

Your interests, on every set of drawings, every site visit, every invoice.

GroundWork walks alongside owners through the full life of a capital project — from the first budget conversation to the final punch list — so your priorities, not the contractor's schedule or the architect's preferences, drive every decision.

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Our approach

Discipline in the details. Judgment in the decisions.

Capital projects go wrong in the gaps — between what the owner meant and what the architect drew, between what's billed and what's actually built. GroundWork exists to close those gaps, staying close to the people and the details so nothing important gets lost between a good decision and a finished building.

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What we do

Representation across the full life of a project.

We stay engaged from the first conversation about scope through the final signed-off closeout binder — five phases, one consistent advocate.

01
Conceptual planning

Project Planning & Development

Before a single drawing exists, we help you get honest about what the project actually needs to accomplish.

  • Define goals, priorities, scope, budget, and schedule
  • Build implementation strategies across multiple concurrent projects
  • Align facility staff and stakeholders on requirements and constraints
  • Assess existing conditions and recommend a delivery strategy
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02
Design

Design Management

We keep the design team accountable to your budget and your operational reality — not just an elegant concept.

  • Help select and procure architects, engineers, and specialty consultants
  • Lead and facilitate design meetings
  • Monitor design progress against budget, schedule, and owner objectives
  • Review documents for constructability, maintainability, and consistency
  • Coordinate value engineering when it genuinely helps the project
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03
Procurement

Procurement Assistance

Getting the right contractor at the right price starts long before a bid is opened.

  • Support contractor solicitation and pre-bid meetings
  • Manage responses to Requests for Information
  • Evaluate bids and recommend contractors
  • Participate in contract negotiations, as requested
04
Construction

Construction Phase Services

This is where a project's fate is actually decided, week by week. We're on site, asking the questions that protect your budget and your schedule before they become problems.

  • Represent the owner throughout construction activities
  • Monitor performance, schedule, quality, safety, and compliance
  • Conduct regular site visits and progress meetings
  • Review pay applications, change orders, RFIs, and submittals
  • Flag risk early and recommend corrective action before it hits cost or schedule
  • Coordinate site access, logistics, and phasing to limit disruption
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05
Closeout & commissioning

Project Closeout

A project isn't done when construction stops — it's done when every system works, every document is in hand, and the owner can confidently take the keys.

  • Coordinate substantial and final completion activities
  • Oversee commissioning to confirm building systems perform as designed
  • Track punch list items through to zero
  • Verify warranties, O&M manuals, record drawings, and closeout documentation
  • Support final acceptance and project turnover
Throughout every phase

Two things never stop running in the background.

Budget discipline and clear communication aren't a phase — they're the thread that runs underneath all five.

Budget & Schedule Management

  • Track project budgets and contingency spend
  • Monitor schedules and flag potential delays
  • Provide regular cost and schedule reporting
  • Evaluate change orders for necessity, reasonableness, and cost impact

Communication & Reporting

  • Serve as primary liaison between owner, designers, contractors, and stakeholders
  • Prepare written progress reports on status, budget, schedule, risk, and milestones
  • Facilitate stakeholder meetings and executive-level updates
Contracting flexibility

We can hold the soft-cost contracts directly.

On projects where it benefits the owner, GroundWork will directly contract the engineering, architecture, survey, and other soft-cost professionals a project needs — consolidating that scope under a single point of accountability instead of splitting it across separate owner agreements.

One firm accountable for design procurement, construction oversight, and reporting — start to finish.

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About GroundWork

Based in Greensboro, working across Georgia.

GroundWork is an owner's representation firm built around a simple premise: the owner needs one advocate in the room who has no financial stake in the architect's design fee or the contractor's change order — only in the owner's outcome.

We sit alongside facility staff and leadership through planning, design, procurement, and construction, translating technical detail into decisions owners can act on, and keeping budget, schedule, and risk visible the entire way.

01Point of contact across design, procurement, and construction
GABased in Greensboro, serving owners statewide
∞Concurrent projects supported at once
100%Alignment with owner objectives
Start a conversation

Tell us about the project you're planning.

Whether you're scoping a single renovation or standing up a multi-site portfolio of projects, we'll help you think through delivery strategy before you sign a single contract.

Email GroundWork
Email

info@gwp-ga.com

Location

Greensboro, Georgia

Focus

Owner's representation