Your independent advocate from concept through closeout.

An owner's rep is the project owner's independent advocate. The owner's rep reviews GC performance, validates and approves pay applications, manages design teams, coordinates procurement, monitors schedule and safety, and ensures every decision aligns with your financial and operational goals. Unlike a project manager who works for the GC or design firm, the owner's rep has no financial stake in construction decisions and answers only to the owner.

The earlier the better. Engage at site selection or schematic design to maximize value through preconstruction input, GC and architect selection, contract negotiation, and risk allocation. Owners who wait until construction starts get a watchdog. Owners who engage earlier get a strategic partner who shapes the deal.

Owner's rep fees typically range from 1 to 5 percent of total project cost depending on scope, complexity, and engagement length. Multi-site rollouts often see lower percentages. Complex single assets like cleanrooms, data centers, or USDA-compliant cold storage often run higher. See the fee structure breakdown above.

A construction manager (CM) is hired to deliver the construction work, often as CM-at-risk where they hold trade contracts and absorb risk. An owner's rep is hired to protect the owner's interests across all stakeholders including the CM, GC, designers, and consultants. The two roles can coexist on a project, but they serve different masters: the CM serves the build, the owner's rep serves the owner.

TCG has delivered Owner's Rep, Construction Management, Preconstruction, and Design-Build services across 38 states with more than one million square feet of insulated metal panel installation alone. Project experience spans hospitality (Hotel ZaZa Austin, InterContinental SF), restaurants (PF Chang's, Del Frisco's, Perry's), healthcare (Davita Dialysis 25 sites in TX, Bellaire Dental, Vision Source), CEA and cannabis (Vireo Health 116K SF, FLUENT, Peake Releaf 140K SF), industrial (PEPSICO Virginia and Arizona, Auto Nation Dallas), data centers, life sciences, self-storage, adaptive reuse, and higher education research facilities.

Yes. TCG has direct experience managing multi-site rollouts including a 25-site Davita Dialysis program across Texas, multi-location El Pollo Campero builds, multi-state PEPSICO industrial expansions, and several QSR and dental rollouts. The firm is licensed in all 50 states and runs a standardized site-launch playbook so each location moves at the same speed and quality.

Yes. TCG's owner's rep engagements typically include feasibility review, conceptual budgets via TCG.ai, schedule modeling, GC and architect selection, and contract structure recommendations before construction begins. For owners who only need a feasibility review, standalone preconstruction packages start at $2,500 with credit applied to a future construction or owner's rep contract.

Most owner's reps are pure advisors who never put on boots. TCG is a working commercial general contractor that has installed more than one million square feet of IMP, delivered design-build projects in 38 states, and runs an AI-powered estimating engine (TCG.ai) used on real bids. That means TCG's owner's rep team can validate GC pricing against current market reality, not historical benchmarks, and can spot trade-level issues a pure advisory shop will miss.

Yes. TCG holds all owner and developer documentation in confidence and will sign a mutual NDA on request before reviewing proprietary plans, financials, or capital structures. This is standard practice for owner's rep engagements.