Free 20-Minute Discovery Call

Book a free 20-minute Discovery Call to discuss your project, current questions and next steps. Bring the lease, proposal, plans, budget or schedule you have. A detailed Feasibility Review is a separate paid engagement with an agreed scope and fee.

Reach out to book a project review

Phone

Call or Text 281-957-4106

Office

16518 House Hahl Rd #313, Cypress, TX 77433

Project review call with Epex Consulting, an owner-side construction advisor in Houston Texas

Free Discovery Call or Paid Feasibility Review?

Free 20-minute Discovery Call: Discuss your project, main questions and the type of support that may fit. The introductory call does not include a full feasibility analysis.

Paid Feasibility Review: A separate engagement for a defined review scope. Confirm the deliverables, fee and required documents before starting. See the Feasibility Review details.

If ongoing support is appropriate, discuss owner’s representation, construction management or draw administration as a separately agreed scope.

What happens on a project review call

The free Discovery Call is an introductory discussion of your project, available documents and main questions. It helps establish whether a separately scoped review or ongoing engagement is appropriate.

  1. Send the documents first. Anything you have: a lease or letter of intent, a landlord work letter, a contractor proposal, a construction contract, drawings, a budget, a schedule, or a pay application. Partial is fine. The project review is more useful with the documents than without them.
  2. Twenty minutes on the call. Discuss the project stage, the documents available and the decisions you are trying to make.
  3. Agree the next step. Discuss which questions need a detailed review. Confirm any paid scope, deliverables and fee before work begins.

What to bring to a project review

If you are signing a lease or a build-out

The lease or LOI, the landlord's work letter, and any drawings or a franchisor prototype. The project review will focus on what the tenant improvement allowance actually covers and what quietly lands on you. See commercial buildout consulting and franchise build-out advisory.

If you are comparing contractor proposals

Every bid you have, the drawings they were priced from, and any clarifications the contractors issued. Use the call to discuss whether a separate proposal review is needed to compare scope, exclusions and allowances. Where a contract is on a standard form, we read it against the base AIA contract documents. See contractor proposal review.

Project review of a commercial build-out proposal before the tenant signs the GC contract

If you are underwriting a development

The survey, the plat, whatever drawings exist, the budget as it stands, and the proposed contractor if there is one. Use the call to discuss which budget assumptions may need a detailed review. See multifamily feasibility and development budget review.

If you are already in construction

The latest pay application, the schedule of values, the lien waivers you have collected, and the change-order log. A separately scoped draw review can assess reconciliation and identify documentation questions. For general background, see Texas Property Code Chapter 53. See draw administration and owner's representation.

Project review of a pay application, schedule of values, and lien waivers on a Texas multifamily project

Who the project review is for

First-time commercial tenants and franchisees. First-time townhome and multifamily developers. Experienced owners and investors who want a second set of eyes before a signature. Out-of-state owners building in Houston, Dallas, Austin, or San Antonio. Lenders and equity partners who want an independent read on a borrower's documents. The call helps determine whether a paid engagement is appropriate for the project.

What the project review is not

It is not legal advice, it is not design, and it is not a bid. Epex Consulting holds no construction contract and takes no builder margin, so nothing said on the call is protecting a construction fee. If the right next step is a lawyer, an architect, or a different contractor, the summary will say that too.

Completed Houston townhome development that began with a project review call