As a Design-Build contractor, NFE has the team in place to provide a full range of services from site selection to final occupancy. By consolidating these services under our control gives our clients greater control over time and budget—and offers a wide range of cost-effective design and construction solutions without sacrificing architectural aesthetics.

Through a team of in-house staff and independent subcontractors we offer our clients the following services:

• Site selection and site evaluation
• Preliminary and detailed site investigation
• Site planning
• Re-zoning, site permits and site approvals
• Project budgeting and cost estimates
• Building designs and detailing
• Construction documents such as specifications, project schedules
• Obtain construction permits
• Construction of site work, pavements, building, and infrastructure
• Interior designing and space planning
• Interior fit-up construction work
• Communication/Data cabling and network setup
• Landscape planning and construction
• Final occupancy approval
• Maintenance and operation of facilities
• Renovations and improvements
• Specialty construction, such as: demolition, environmental, remediation, brownfield improvement, and site clean-up work.

CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT

Permitting, plan approval, constructability reviews of plans, cost-estimates, pre-bid reviews, bid evaluation, partnering, project diary with complete documentation and photographs, project monitoring, scheduling, contractors' pay requests, claims resolutions, as-built drawings, punch list, project close-out, and expert testimony.

• Construct-ability review of Plans and specifications
• Pre-construction meeting of all Consultants and Contractors.
• Attend any Partnering Program and Establish lines of communication between all related parties.
• Study all Contract documents
• Review and verify all construction permits required on the project.
• Establish Field Documentation Procedures and Books
• Review and verify accuracy of topographical surveys.
• Study all underground utilities location.
• Establish procedures for notifying the client of emergency conditions.
• Establish procedures to handle public complaints and the media.
• Study all construction materials to be encountered or used on site, including subsurface materials.
• Evaluate Borrow Pits and transportation routes for hauling.
• Study disposal areas for surplus materials.

• Review Contractor’s CPM schedule on a regular basis.
• Arrange and Coordinate all Progress meetings
• Inspect, Measure, and Document all construction activities in a detailed format.
• Quality Control Materials inspection and testing.
• Project Photographs Album (to avoid any future claims)
• Prepare Project Diary and Progress Drawings with complete documentation.
• Review Contractor’s Pay requests.
• Review any Claims or Change orders or requests for time extension.
• Enforce Environmental Protection Plans for Air Quality, Sediment/Erosion, etc.
• Enforce Force Protection and Public Safety Plans on a continuous basis.

• Prepare Punchlist
• Semi-Final and Final Inspections.
• Final Claims resolutions, if any.
• Field Audit.
• Record Drawing with As-Built details.
• Check and organize all Warranties and O&M Manuals.
• Final Acceptance and Close-out.