This page is a professional retrospective. Jonathan J. Young Consulting is retired and no longer accepting new engagements.

Services Provided

The scope of services offered during the practice's active years

Presented here as a record. Select a heading to expand it.

Pre-Acquisition Phase Services
  • Due diligence and feasibility studies
  • Suitability
  • Issue and concern establishment
  • Conceptual budgeting
  • Third party review
  • Site observations
  • Constraint analyses
Pre-Construction Phase Services
  • Project management
  • Budgeting & scheduling
  • Architectural and engineering coordination
  • Governmental agency processing
  • Value engineering & budget review
  • Owner / consultant / team meetings
Construction Phase Services
  • Budget variance reporting
  • Summary job costing
  • Schedule compliance
  • Site observation and field reporting
  • Conformance review
  • Loan monitoring
  • Lien release and insurance verification
  • Regular or periodic project team meetings
Feasibility Studies

Due diligence in support of funding sources and lending institutions, informed by work on high-profile entertainment, recreational, ecclesiastical, commercial, and residential developments in Nevada and California.

Land & Site

  • Specific land uses
  • Proposed / potential adjacent development
  • Covenants, conditions and restrictions
  • Design guidelines
  • Easements or rights retained by others
  • Airport environs & gaming overlays

Infrastructure & Value

  • Sewer, water and storm drain capacity
  • Power and telephone capacity
  • Soil conditions
  • Privacy and security
  • Ability to install future improvements
  • Facility assessment & value enhancement
Litigation Support

Performance Issues

  • Document review
  • Close-out delays

Job Cost Reviews

  • Cost verification
  • Summary review

Construction Quality Issues

  • Site observation
  • Third party review
Other Services

Regular site visitations gave owners, developers, and lenders confidence that a project was being built in accordance with contract documents — complementing, not replacing, technical inspections, soils engineering, and materials testing required elsewhere in the contract.

Site Observation

  • Quality assurance
  • Conformance with contract documents
  • Progress reporting & percentage completion

Meetings & Post-Completion

  • Progress meetings covering budget, schedule, critical-path items
  • Minutes disbursed within 48 hours
  • Post-completion reviews and job cost review & control
  • Federal Recreation and Public Purposes Act agency processing