Construction Management in Miami & South Florida.

What construction management means at Souffront

Most construction problems are not engineering problems or labor problems. They are coordination problems — a designer who never speaks to the contractor, a contractor who never reads the engineer’s intent, a board that signs change orders it does not understand, and an owner who discovers the budget was fiction only after the work is half-built. Construction management exists to close that gap: one party owns the outcome, end to end.

At Souffront, that party is a Florida-licensed general contractor backed by an in-house licensed structural engineer. We assess the condition, engineer the scope, price it fixed-fee, pull the permits, build it with supervised crews, and close it out with the building department — under one contract, one schedule, and one point of accountability. There is no handoff between the company that designs the work and the company that performs it, because they are the same company.

Construction management for condominium & HOA boards

A board is a fiduciary. Every dollar spent on a capital repair is owed an explanation the unit owners will accept, and every structural decision carries liability the directors personally feel. Souffront runs board-side construction management to remove that exposure — turning an open-ended “we need work done” into a documented, defensible, fixed-scope program.

A typical association engagement runs:

• Condition assessment. A licensed structural engineer documents the actual condition of the seawall, concrete, structure, or building element in question — with photographs, measurements, and a defect classification the board can hand to counsel, the insurer, and the membership.
• Engineered scope & transparent budget. A line-itemed scope of work, sealed where structural, priced fixed-fee. The board sees the full number before committing — no allowances that balloon at closeout.
• Board-ready documentation. Capital-planning coordination, reporting packages for the membership, and the paper trail that protects the directors if a decision is ever questioned.
• Permitting & agency liaison. Building department, and where waterfront work is involved, Miami-Dade DERM, Florida DEP, and USACE — handled by the same team that engineered the scope.
• Phased construction. Work sequenced around occupancy, special assessments, and cash flow, with supervised in-house crews and a single superintendent the board can call.
• Closeout. Final inspections, sealed as-builts, warranty, and a complete file the association keeps for the next board, the next insurer, and the next buyer’s attorney.

Construction management for homeowners

A waterfront or structural project on a private residence carries the same coordination risk as a condominium — just concentrated on one family instead of a board. Souffront gives the homeowner a single accountable contact for the entire arc of the work: the engineer who diagnoses the problem is part of the same firm as the contractor who fixes it and the project manager who keeps it on schedule and on budget.

For homeowners we manage the full lifecycle — design-build engineering, fixed-fee budgeting, permitting, scheduling, construction, and closeout — so the owner makes decisions with real numbers in front of them and never becomes the unpaid general contractor of their own house.

What we manage

Souffront’s construction-management practice is built on the structural and marine work that is hardest to get right — and extends across the general construction that surrounds it.

• Seawall replacement, repair, and new marine construction
• Concrete restoration and structural repair
• Foundation stabilization, helical piles, and soil remediation
• Building-envelope and waterproofing repair
• Sitework, drainage, and surface restoration
• Code-enforcement and agency-violation remediation
• General building construction tied to a structural or waterfront scope

Why an engineer-led general contractor

The single largest source of cost, delay, and finger-pointing in construction is the seam between design and build. When the engineer and the contractor work for different companies, every unforeseen condition becomes a negotiation: the engineer blames the builder, the builder blames the drawings, and the owner pays for both. Souffront removes the seam.

• One accountable party. The engineer of record and the general contractor of record are the same firm. There is no one to point at but us.
• Fixed-fee, not open-ended. The scope is the contract — no hourly drift, no allowance games, no surprise at closeout.
• Sealed engineering in-house. Structural decisions are made and sealed by a Florida-licensed engineer on staff, not subcontracted out and marked up.
• More than two decades in South Florida. Twenty-five-plus years building seawalls, restoring concrete, and managing structural and general construction across Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach.
• Built for waterfront complexity. A firm that can engineer and build a seawall can manage anything landward of it.

The process

1. Intake. Board or owner describes the problem or the goal. We schedule the assessment.

2. Engineering assessment. A licensed structural engineer documents the condition and the root cause — not just the symptom.

3. Engineered scope & fixed-fee budget. Line-itemed, sealed where structural, priced before any commitment.

4. Permitting. Building department and any required environmental agencies, handled by the same team.

5. Construction. Supervised in-house crews, one superintendent, a schedule the owner can hold us to.

6. Closeout. Final inspections, sealed as-builts, warranty, and the complete project file.

Engagement & pricing

Most Souffront construction-management work is delivered design-build under a single fixed-fee contract — the cleanest structure for accountability and budget certainty. Where a board prefers, we also serve as owner’s representative, managing scope, schedule, and outside trades on the association’s behalf. Either way the engagement is quoted before work begins, and the engineered scope is the contract. For associations with recurring capital programs, multi-year master agreements lock pricing and keep one engineer of record across the entire portfolio.