U.S. COST has professional staff ready to serve your cost, management, controls and estimating needs. These professionals are at the consultant/advisor level from many fields, and are considered the most talented and experienced cost engineers, estimators, schedulers, value engineers, computer programmers, parametric estimators, environmental specialists. These management professionals have participated in thousands of projects valued in the billions of dollars and can be rapidly deployed from six offices across the United States to your work site (or location).
Program Management
U.S. COST combines project management experience with the latest motivational and controls expertise to improve team building, predictability, risk identification and management, and enhance performance throughout all phases of project assessment, design, procurement, construction and closeout.
During programmatic development, U.S. COST provides project scope definition, delineation from other projects, sequence of work schemes, conceptualization of all systems and subsystems, risk assessment, alternative analysis, scheduling, contract method analysis and total program cost estimating.
Project Controls
U.S. COST Project Control Services enable our clients to plan, fund, and commission their projects on-time and within budget. U.S. COST provides experienced professionals for all aspects of project controls from small municipal projects to multi-billion dollar programs.
Cost Estimating
U.S. COST began as a premier estimating and cost consulting company and continues to live up to this reputation. We have assembled and organized a superior technical staff, trained them in the most productive and accurate estimating techniques, and provided them with the most powerful computer tools and up to date price data available.
Value Engineering
If your goal is to optimize the potential of your project, than U.S. COST's Value Engineering expertise is the tool for the job. By making Value Management an integral part of the design process, clients have the freedom and flexibility to propose and evaluate "what if?" changes in a risk-free environment. Bringing Value Management to the fore at an early stage of the project eliminates the need for expensive redesigning later in the process.
Healthcare Value Analysis
U.S. COST specializes in facilitating workshops that improve processes, identify areas of opportunity, and seek alternative solutions to provide optimal organizational performance and efficiency. U.S. COST has facilitated several recent Value Analysis (VA) studies on Hospital Revenue Improvements. These workshops have assembled current hospital staff as well as industry specialists on the healthcare revenue cycle and hospital IT systems. The results of these studies have been tremendous with ROI's of approximately 100:1.
Scheduling
U.S. COST's professional scheduling staff has the interpersonal and technical skills necessary to develop effective logic driven, time phased CPM schedules. Each U.S. COST schedule is carefully prepared for a specific project and displays the relationships between highly diverse activities in a useable presentation for control of your project.
Job Order Contracting
U.S. COST is the best JOC Technical Documentation and Software source for facilities and installations world wide. Facilities around the world rely on the Job Order Contracting procurement method to reduce lead time for obtaining construction services at known costs.
Special Projects
U.S. COST offers an array of special services to owners, architects, engineers and contractors.
