Construction consulting and construction management for owners, franchise operators, investors, and developers across Texas and the United States. We can run your project day to day, or sit on your side of the table as your owner’s representative, reviewing proposals, budgets, schedules, and draws before you commit and throughout construction.
By the time a problem shows up on a jobsite, the cause is usually six weeks upstream, in a lease clause nobody flagged, an exclusion buried on page 14 of the proposal, an allowance that was always going to be short. Our owner-side construction consulting catches those upstream.
Owner-side construction consulting is how the right decisions get made early. Feasibility, contract and proposal review, and risk assessment done before the first draw prevent the change orders, delays, and budget overruns that show up later — when fixing them costs real money instead of a redline.
Whether you’re building a boutique retail space or a mid-rise multifamily complex, our owner-side construction consulting process remains surgical in its precision.
Pre-lease feasibility, contractor proposal review, landlord work-letter review, schedule planning, and owner’s representation for commercial buildouts. We protect tenants and small property owners before they commit, and during construction, once they have.
Feasibility, development budget review, bid review, draw administration, schedule tracking, and progress reporting. We protect developers, investors, lenders, and out-of-state owners from the dollar leaks that show up in the second half of a project.
We run the job for you: schedule, trades, submittals, RFIs, inspections, change orders and pay apps, with a written report every week.
Line-by-line review of exclusions, allowances, and ambiguous scope language-translated into dollars.
Review the budget against the project scope and local market conditions. Identify missing line items, allowances, and cost exposure.
Your construction advocate from planning through closeout, OAC meetings, pay apps, weekly written summaries.
Test the site, budget and schedule before you buy the land or sign the lease.
AIA paperwork, lien waivers, lender coordination, audit-ready files, every month, on time.
Read the lease, the proposal, the plans, the budget, the schedule. Identify what's missing, what's underpriced, and what's about to bite.
Translate every issue into plain English with the dollar value and schedule impact attached. No jargon. No hand-waving.
A written recommendation: walk away, renegotiate, or proceed with conditions. We say what we would do.
Once construction starts, we watch the project on the owner's behalf, weekly reporting, change-order review, draw verification.
The person behind the work
Founder of Epex Consulting, based in Cypress, Texas. More than 10 years across fix-and-flips, residential and commercial construction, with involvement in over $100 million in real estate transactions.
Read the founder’s background and how we work →For an eight-townhome development near Houston’s Galleria, Epex’s work included construction management, owner’s representation and lot-by-lot draw administration across multiple investor LLCs.
View project photos and the case study →Start with a free 20-minute introduction to discuss fit and next steps. Before paid work begins, we agree on scope, fees, required documents, timing and deliverables in writing.
Epex Consulting and Epex Construction are affiliated businesses with separate advisory and construction engagements.
See our engagement approach →Owners, tenants, and developers across Texas and nationwide — in their own words.
Cypress
“Our pediatric clinic buildout in Cypress was our first commercial project. Epex reviewed every draw and every change order, and we opened on time and $22,000 under the contractor’s original projection.”
Cypress
“Before signing our lease in a Cypress shopping center, Epex reviewed the landlord’s work letter and found three clauses that would have cost us five figures. The negotiation they guided saved our entire contingency budget.”
Cypress
“We live out of state but own a multifamily project near Cypress. Epex’s monthly progress reports and photo documentation are so complete, our partners stopped asking for site visits.”
Cypress
“The GC bids for our Cypress office buildout were 40% apart with identical scope descriptions. Epex’s line-by-line leveling showed us exactly why, and which number was real.”
Buildout Advisory
“We were about to sign a work letter we didn’t fully understand. Epex reviewed the landlord’s terms and the contractor’s proposal and caught over $40,000 in charges that didn’t belong to us. That one review paid for their entire fee several times over.”
Buildout Advisory
“I’m a physician, not a construction expert. Epex translated every proposal and change order into plain English and flagged the ones that didn’t make sense. I never felt talked down to, just protected.”
Multifamily Advisory
“Our lender required independent progress reporting, and Epex’s reports were so thorough the bank started requesting them by name. Draw approvals went from weeks to days.”
Multifamily Advisory
“Bid day used to feel like comparing apples to airplanes. Epex leveled three GC proposals line by line, exposed $180K in scope gaps, and negotiated them out before contract. Our board was stunned.”
Get access to the same internal evaluation tools we use for our high-stakes engagements.
Tell us where your project stands and where you need help. Start with a free project call to discuss your scope, budget, schedule and next steps. No payment or obligation to book.
PROJECT RESCUE · GREATER HOUSTON
If your GC walked off, costs keep climbing or payments are ahead of progress, our owner-side Rescue Assessment reviews work in place, scope, permit records, payments and remaining costs.
Start with a free 20-minute introductory call. Detailed assessments start at $1,500, with scope and fees agreed separately.
Explore Project Rescue →MORE PROJECT EXPERIENCE
See how owner-side reviews helped development teams make decisions before committing capital.
48 UNITS · MULTIFAMILY
Our role: Feasibility and development budget review.
Project context: Front-end planning for a 48-unit multifamily development. See the case study for the scope of Epex’s work.
Read the project case study →20 UNITS · DALLAS, TX
Our role: Feasibility, entitlement coordination, civil document review and investor analysis before construction.
Owner benefit: A written investment recommendation with site and entitlement risks identified.
Read the project case study →EPEX PROJECT PORTAL
Keep project information and owner decisions together, without chasing scattered emails.
Progress and schedule: Follow project updates and upcoming milestones.
Costs and changes: Review billing, draw information and change orders.
Documents and decisions: Keep project records, requests and decisions organized.
Ask about the project portal →Portal access and features are configured for your project and agreed engagement.
OWNER’S PROJECT HUB
Feature overview · Illustrative layout
10 years of experience. Meet Epex Consulting and explore our project work.
We review plans, contractor proposals, budgets and schedules to help you understand scope, cost exposure and the decisions ahead. You receive clear recommendations before you commit and support as construction progresses.
With construction management, we run the project day to day, coordinating schedules, trades, submittals, RFIs, inspections, change orders and pay applications. With owner’s representation, we act as your advocate, reviewing the team’s progress, costs and decisions on your behalf. The engagement scope determines our responsibilities.
Epex Consulting provides construction consulting, construction management and owner’s representation. If you need a general contractor, our sister company Epex Construction provides construction services.
We work with property owners, commercial tenants, franchise operators, investors and developers. Our commercial work includes medical, retail and restaurant buildouts; our multifamily work includes project oversight, budget review and draw administration.
We serve Houston, Dallas–Fort Worth, Austin and San Antonio, as well as clients elsewhere in Texas and nationwide. Contact us to discuss the location and support your project needs.
Ideally, before signing a lease or accepting a contractor’s proposal. Early contractor proposal review and budget review can identify exclusions, unclear scope and missing allowances while you still have time to address them.
The free 20-minute introduction covers your project stage, fit and next steps. Detailed document review and written assessments are separately scoped paid services, with scope, fee and deliverables agreed before work begins.
