Technical Consulting
Owning or building a leased property or home can be a challenge to someone off-site or with a limited knowledge of construction. How do you determine that your project is built well and stays within budget?
Hicks Architectural Group has over 40 years of experience as an owner’s agent on all manner of projects, providing a variety of services:
Technical Consulting
Owning or building a leased property or home can be a challenge to someone off-site or with a limited knowledge of construction. How do you determine that your project is built well and stays within budget?
Hicks Architectural Group has over 40 years of experience as an owner’s agent on all manner of projects, providing a variety of services:
Third-Party Consultation
Hicks Architectural Group is able to act as a neutral third-party technical consultant to homeowners. We offer unbiased Construction Administration services, with the simple application of industry standards and best practices to assist other design architects and construction contractors in avoiding conflict. We can provide valuable early design-phase feedback on proposed building products and systems, review bid documents, construction-phase mock-ups and submittals, perform construction observation, review benchmark pay requests, prepare field observation reports, and author project close-out punch lists.
Owner’s Agent
If your existing building requires intermittent monitoring, maintenance, or capital improvements, we can act as your representative to coordinate tenants, visualize improvements, monitor or direct maintenance and repair crews for work.
Property Inspection & Code Review
Want to know what you may be buying? Received a building violation? Need to understand zoning and building code information or need targeted help with a specific building problem in your home? Get in touch and let us assist you.
Residential Construction Observation
Hicks Architectural Group is a trusted expert source of high-end residential construction review and observation. Here are just a few examples:
Acting as the Owner’s Agent, we coordinated and reviewed all aspects of a new three-story, 7,000 square-foot home construction in Lincoln Park. Also in Lincoln Park, we provided contractor benchmark inspection services for a custom mansion.
In Lakeview, our monitoring on a new three-story 6,000 square-foot custom home resulted in the rejection of poorly designed partially constructed masonry exterior walls, which were required to be demolished and reconstructed correctly.
For a Glencoe home renovation, we performed routine construction observation for the owners to monitor work quality and administer building contractor draw request payments.
Michigan Avenue High-Rise Expansion
Hicks Architectural Group acted as the Owner’s Agent, coordinating work between the design architects, building ownership, and building contractors for this 3,000 square-foot condominium second-level expansion.
Oak Street Retailer
Hicks Architectural Group provides ongoing property maintenance and capital improvements for this three-story retail property located along Chicago’s “Rodeo Drive.” Over two years, we’ve provided owner inspection services, assessment reports, design, bid, and permitting documents for roof replacements and an entry court renovation, as well as code-compliant emergency electrical upgrades.
