Before acquisition or design
Understand existing conditions, environmental history, development assumptions, and program requirements before commitments harden.
Construction & real estate due diligenceNational Reach. Local Insight.
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Owners & Developers
Technical support from acquisition and feasibility through design, accessibility, construction, compliance, capital work, and operations.
Your perspective
Technical work shaped around the responsibility you carry.
Owners and developers make connected decisions across acquisition, feasibility, design, accessibility, financing, construction, compliance, and long-term operations. A technical answer is most useful when it considers where the asset is in that lifecycle and what choices remain open.
KOW helps teams establish a clearer baseline, test assumptions, coordinate specialized requirements, and turn observations into an executable next step. The scope can stand alone or connect multiple practices around one property or development plan.
Where KOW enters
Before closing, during the work, and through the hold.
Before and during construction
Evaluate plans, accessibility, costs, schedule, progress, changes, commissioning, and documentation across the delivery period.
During ownership and repositioning
Coordinate capital needs, energy performance, compliance obligations, incentives, and system upgrades within the asset strategy.
What matters
Built around the questions you have to answer.
Project risk defined before commitments harden
Accessibility and compliance carried into construction
Capital needs placed in sequence
One technical relationship across the asset lifecycle
Questions to answer
What the report should make clear.
- 01
What conditions or requirements could change the development or acquisition plan?
- 02
Are design, accessibility, scope, budget, schedule, approvals, and procurement assumptions sufficiently coordinated?
- 03
Which building improvements should be sequenced first, and which decisions depend on further study?
- 04
How can compliance and performance work be integrated with planned capital investment?
A useful deliverable
What the report should do for your team.
Meet the asset where it is
Frame findings around acquisition, design, financing, construction, operations, compliance, or repositioning rather than producing an isolated condition list.
Show dependencies
Identify where scope, access, approvals, utilities, existing conditions, tenant or resident operations, incentives, and capital timing affect one another.
Distinguish planning from design
State which costs and concepts support early decisions and which measures require engineering, design, testing, permitting, or contractor pricing.
Leave an executable next step
Organize priorities, responsible parties, missing information, further study, and sequencing so ownership can move from finding to action.
Proposal and kickoff
What to send at the start.
You do not need every item before contacting KOW. Share what is available, identify what is still coming, and flag the date the work must support.
Property or project address, current stage, intended use, ownership plan, and primary decision
Available surveys, drawings, specifications, budgets, contracts, schedules, approvals, and prior studies
Financing, program, incentive, compliance, or reporting requirements that affect the work
Known existing conditions, planned improvements, tenant or resident constraints, and access limitations
Target dates for acquisition, financing, design decisions, construction, filing, or occupancy
Consultants and decision-makers already involved, including the person responsible for coordinating records and access
Priority services
Expertise for the work ahead.
Plan & Cost Review
Pre-closing review of plans, specifications, budgets, schedules, contracts, approvals, and the assumptions supporting a construction loan.
Explore service Accessibility ConsultingProject-specific accessibility review from governing requirements and coordinated construction documents through field observations, issue tracking, and closeout.
Explore service Property Condition AssessmentsProperty condition reporting that identifies material deficiencies, immediate repairs, and expected replacement needs for financing, acquisition, and capital planning.
Explore service Sustainability ConsultingA project-specific sustainability brief and implementation roadmap aligned with ownership goals, capital plans, and project milestones.
Explore service NYC Energy ComplianceFind the right scope for Local Law 84 benchmarking, Local Law 87 audits and retro-commissioning, and Local Law 97 emissions planning.
Explore service LBP & Environmental O&MProperty-specific procedures for managing lead-based paint and other known or suspected environmental materials during occupancy, maintenance, repair, and renovation.
Explore serviceStart a conversation
Start a conversation for owners & developers.
Tell us what you’re working on. Our team will help define the right scope and get a proposal moving.
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