Representing Owners with Skill, Wisdom, and Experience
Building and infrastructure projects are complex, requiring intricate choreography of all parties and their work to ensure successful project delivery. As our clients’ trusted partner, Otak offers deep expertise, counsel, and creativity to realize your vision within budget and on time. At Otak, your vision becomes our mission.
Every owner has unique needs, so owner’s representatives must be highly flexible. An owner’s representative provides a range of essential services throughout all stages of a project, working alongside owners to understand their needs. To ensure that complex goals are easily met, an owner’s representative augments staff and is attuned to details crucial for driving projects and making critical decisions for the owner. Our talent relies on softer skills which help guide our clients to what they need. Then, we deliver those needs.
Education
Educators are best at educating, and construction projects can compete with that vital service, yet they are necessary for the health, safety, and well-being of students and teachers. Building improvements are significant undertakings demanding considerable stakeholder engagement, oversight, and resources, and Otak is here to help. Whether planning to renovate facilities or frugally replace aging infrastructure, our expert team handles the complexities of your project.
Healthcare
Healthcare is at the heart of our communities, and Otak’s trusted project management team knows how to work alongside our healthcare partners in the development of spaces that heal body, mind, and spirit. Whether planning large hospital replacements or improving retail medical clinics, our experts guide you through the planning, design, and construction to ensure your project’s logistic and fiscal success without distracting essential medical professionals.
Public Works
While all projects demand meticulous financial management and strong owner advocacy, public sector clients also contend with heightened community oversight, stakeholder engagement, complex organizational structures, and stringent public procurement requirements. Otak helps municipalities and public agencies tackle their most complex community investments by focusing on comprehensive budgeting, bond and funding stream management, scheduling, risk assessments, energy incentives, seismic rehabilitation, historic renovation, greenfield development and land entitlements, and change management.
Private Works
Otak provides outstanding owner’s representation for the private sector, including: Class A office buildings, Industrial Tilt up Flex Offices, Cross Docks, Built-to-suit, retail shopping centers, furniture stores, restaurants, condominium towers, and apartments. Handling the entire construction and budgeting process—concept, land purchase, through land entitlement, site and building design, construction, tenant buildout and move-in—our leadership coordinates with all related entities on your behalf, including architects, engineers, and contractors.
Advanced Tech
From lab expansions to complex semiconductor or data center campuses, our staff’s range of proven expertise provides customers with seasoned leadership equipped to plan, coordinate, construct, and validate the most technically challenging facilities. By streamlining the entire process through close collaboration with the owner, designer, contractors, and subcontractors; we shorten schedules, control costs, and prove collaborative projects can be completed smoothly.
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