Cloud Project Management
Drawings, RFIs, submittals, change orders, and schedules are maintained in cloud-based systems accessible to owner teams in real time — no waiting for the next meeting, no paper folders, no stale data.
Leed / Services
Construction services across every delivery method.
From preconstruction discipline through self-performed craft and final turnover — Leed delivers complete construction services across New England, partnering with the State of Connecticut, the Regional Water Authority, and the municipalities we serve.
Preconstruction.
Leed's collaborative preconstruction approach — founded on transparency and accountability — is built around early problem-solving. We surface budget, schedule, and constructability issues on paper, not in the field.
Unrivaled intelligence.
Leed delivers preconstruction intelligence by leveraging long-term subcontractor relationships, current market data, and decades of building experience. A successful preconstruction program plans for every construction activity, identifies labor requirements and costs, develops procurement strategy, and outlines safety protocols.
Potential project risks are identified early — and mitigation strategies are developed and priced into the project before construction ever begins.
What preconstruction covers
- Communication
- Effective communication during preconstruction sets a strong foundation for open dialogue throughout the project lifecycle. Regular working meetings review expectations, schedule, and shared documentation.
- Planning & Design
- Leed collaborates with design and engineering teams, lending our expertise to safeguard constructability through detailed drawings, technical specifications, and constructability review across every system.
- Budgeting
- Our cost matrices and supply-chain intelligence allow us to create detailed, defensible budgets and estimates — accounting for value-engineering opportunities, labor and material costs, and economic risk factors.
- Risk Management
- Risk identification, mitigation planning, and contingency development — covering site hazards, schedule risk, supply-chain exposure, and regulatory considerations — happen long before mobilization.
- Procurement
- Long-term subcontractor relationships, regional supply-chain intelligence, and disciplined purchasing strategy ensure the right materials and equipment arrive on site at the right time, at the right cost.
02 — Delivery
Construction Management.
With decades of experience delivering for public-sector clients across New England, Leed brings disciplined construction management to every delivery method — and an in-house, self-performing field team to back it up.
Delivery Methods
- Design-Bid-Build
- The traditional linear procurement model. The owner contracts design and construction separately, with construction awarded on the basis of competitive bid.
- CM at-Risk
- Leed joins the team during design, delivers preconstruction services, then assumes risk for cost and schedule under a guaranteed maximum price.
- Design-Build
- Design and construction delivered under a single contract, streamlining accountability, accelerating schedule, and reducing change-order exposure for the owner.
- Integrated Project Delivery
- Owner, designer, and contractor share risk and reward under a multi-party agreement engineered for full project alignment.
Continuous Improvement
- Innovation
- Pioneering advances in materials, methods, and processes to make every project safer, faster, and built to last longer.
- Lean Construction
- Pull Planning, Last Planner System, and value-stream mapping that eliminate redundancy, surface bottlenecks, and drive on-time performance.
- Virtual Design & Construction
- BIM-based clash detection, 4D scheduling, and constructability modeling that catch problems before they become cost overruns.
- Safety
- A safety culture led from the field: OSHA-certified supervision, weekly toolbox talks, and a leadership-led commitment to incident-free jobsites. The record shows it: zero workers’ compensation losses reported from 2016 through 2026.
03 — Execution
Project Management.
Once construction begins, our project management team becomes your trusted partner and advocate. We draw on a network of local and regional resources, applying practical know-how to manage your project from concept through closeout and turnover.
Unsurpassed value. Single-source accountability. Daily transparency.
Services Include
- 01Project Team Assembly
- 02Design Team Selection
- 03Design Management
- 04Master Project Schedule
- 05Construction Logistics Planning
- 06Contractor Prequalification
- 07Contract Drafting & Tender
- 08Budget Management
- 09Project Controls & Documentation
- 10Quality Management
- 11Site Management
- 12Safety Management
04 — Technology
Built on modern tools.
We invest in modern tools where they make the work safer, faster, or more accountable — cloud-based project management, mobile field apps, and data-driven estimating that put real-time information in front of owners and crews alike.
Data-Driven Estimating
A historical cost database built from years of project performance benchmarks every line item against past results and current market conditions — sharper bids, better hit rates, fewer surprises for the owner.
Digital Field Operations
Mobile timesheets, daily field reports, and inspection apps eliminate paper and speed approvals. Crews focus on craft; back-office time savings flow back to clients in pricing and to employees in time off the jobsite.
Modern Documentation
Digital project documentation, electronic submittals, time-stamped photo logs, and searchable archives create a permanent record for owners, regulators, and the maintenance teams who will inherit the work decades later.
Lean Construction.
A philosophy that emphasizes the elimination of waste to create a smoothly flowing production process. Our Lean practices eliminate unnecessary steps and resources — enhancing schedule, quality, and customer satisfaction.
Enhancing productivity.
Lean construction improves efficiency, reduces waste, and increases productivity through streamlined processes, the elimination of unnecessary steps, and effective resource utilization — applied across every site, every trade, every day.
Lean tools
- 01Pull Planning
- Work is started only when it is needed — pulled by downstream demand rather than pushed on a predetermined schedule. The result is fewer bottlenecks, less rework, and a tighter overall project flow.
- 02Kanban
- A visual system for managing workflow — work items represented as cards or tokens, with explicit work-in-progress limits — making bottlenecks visible the moment they appear.
- 03Last Planner System
- A collaborative planning system in which the people doing the work commit to weekly and daily targets, with continuous look-ahead planning and root-cause analysis of every variance.
Let's Build
Have a project on the horizon?
Connect with our preconstruction team to discuss feasibility, delivery method, value engineering, and schedule. Most inquiries receive a response within one business day.