02 Experience
Three decades of Michigan school construction, all of it from the district's side of the table. Owner's representation across nine public clients, built on twenty years running district facilities before the firm existed.
2024 bond program across 20 buildings
$188.7MEst. program
Roofing and envelope, HVAC and controls, technology infrastructure, safety and security systems, paving and site work across nine elementary, four middle, two high, and five support buildings.
Bond Series I & II plus pull-ahead sinking fund
$99MProgram
Additions at four elementary schools, a new field house and athletic fields, high school pool renovation, auditorium renovations, a new black box addition, new electrical switchgear, science room renovations, and district-wide roofing across ten sites.
Bond and sinking fund program, run to final reconciliation
$123MProgram
High school and middle school renovation, the Whitmer Resource Center, outdoor athletics, theater, parking, science labs, and a teen health center. Closed out with John personally running final punch and reconciliation.
Full bond program, from architect and CM selection to closeout
$80MBond
New athletic complex, track and field, concession stand, new pool, middle school renovation, two elementary additions, maintenance facility, and technology upgrades across five sites.
Edison Max center conversion
$25MProject
Conversion of a closed elementary building into a center for severely disabled students, funded through ISD center funds, plus the Longfellow School renovation.
Sinking fund projects delivered without a CM
$12.7MProjects
Contracted directly with trades: high school and elementary HVAC replacement and new roofs at four buildings, with the architect engaged on mechanical design only.
Direct-contractor capital work
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Playground, parking lot reconstruction, gym doors, economizers, and drainage. SAG wrote the bid documents, tabulated bids, and issued award recommendations.
Twenty years inside Michigan school district operations. The experience that makes an owner's representative who has actually owned the buildings.
23 buildings, 2.5M sq ft, 250+ employees
$66MBond overseen
A $23M annual general fund budget across transportation, custodial, maintenance, and grounds, plus oversight of a bond that renovated two middle schools in five occupied phases each. President of MISEC during tenure.
Sinking fund program managed in house
$15MSinking fund
Synthetic athletic fields, roof replacements at five schools, HVAC and controls, and a new day care center, delivered by district staff under direct management.
The bond that built Stoney Creek High School
$100MBond
John was the district facility engineer on the bond program that built Stoney Creek High School from the ground up, a new 420,000-square-foot campus, alongside major renovations at Adams and Rochester High Schools.
02.1 Recognition
Three MSBO Meridian Awards · 17 EPA Green Lights awards · 17 Energy Star awards in 2007 and 19 in 2013 · $184,000 MDEQ grant secured jointly with Arch Environmental.
President of MISEC, the Michigan School Energy Consortium, directing cooperative energy purchasing. Invited to testify before the Michigan Senate as an expert witness on environmental matters.
CMs and architects we've worked alongside: Barton Malow · Skanska · McCarthy Smith · Frank Rewold & Sons · George W. Auch · Integrated Design Solutions · French & Associates · TMP · Stantec · Tremco.
A 30-minute conversation with our principal and partners: where your program stands and what an owner’s representative would do for it.