CM-as-Agent · CM-at-Risk · CM Fee
Construction Management in the GTA and Ontario
We provide construction management for owners, developers, and institutional capital across Ontario, managing the build on your behalf as your accountable advisor while you retain trade-contract control, design authority, or both.
Expert oversight, while you stay in control
Choose Construction Management when you want one accountable advisor running tendering, schedule, cost, and site supervision, but you want to keep the trade contracts in your name, keep design authority, or both.
You keep control
Trade contracts, design authority, or both stay with you. We run the process around your decisions.
Two ways to engage
CM-as-Agent, where you hold the trade contracts, or CM-at-Risk, where we hold them under a guaranteed maximum price.
Weekly site reports
Schedule, cost to date, RFIs, change orders, and the look-ahead, reported every week.
Monthly cost reports
Costs tracked against your budget or GMP, reported directly to your finance and operations leads.
CM-as-Agent, CM-at-Risk, or Project Execution?
Both CM models put ProWise Construction beside you as construction advisor. The difference is who holds the trade contracts, and how much decision authority and cost risk stays with you.
| Compare | CM-as-Agent | CM-at-Risk | Project Execution |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trade contracts held by | You, the owner | ProWise, under a GMP | ProWise, as the builder |
| Your role | You make each trade-contract decision; we give you the framework, bid analysis, and data | You remain design authority and approval gate | You step back from day-to-day site management |
| Pricing | Percentage of construction value or monthly retainer | GMP, with fee, contingency, and at-risk costs line-itemed | Lump-sum, GMP, or design-build contract |
| Cost risk | You carry more cost exposure | The GMP defines your exposure | More execution risk transfers to the builder |
| Best when | You want oversight, transparency, and involvement in trade decisions | You want cost certainty but keep design judgement | You want one accountable party for schedule, cost, and delivery |
| Learn more | You're on the right page. See how we manage it ↓ | Project Execution → | |
How we manage your project under CM
CM is not a passive oversight role. It is the management system around tendering, construction, reporting, field decisions, and owner-facing control, running from pre-construction to turnover.
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Tender and review trade contracts
Trade-package scoping, pre-qualification, tender administration, bid levelling, and award recommendations, with documented analysis of price, schedule fit, contractor capacity, and bid completeness.
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Coordinate the full lifecycle
Pre-construction, mobilization, construction, and occupancy: design coordination meetings, trade interface management, inspection scheduling, owner approval gates, and turnover planning.
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Supervise on site and report on quality
A site lead supervises trades, runs daily progress and safety briefings, keeps the site log, and reports weekly on schedule, cost-to-date, RFIs, change orders, and look-ahead items.
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Administer contracts with change-order discipline
Payment certificates, trade contract administration, change orders with documented impact analysis, and monthly cost reporting against budget or GMP, reported directly to your finance and operations leads.
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Resolve field issues and RFIs
Constructability review, field-condition resolution, RFI tracking, and coordination with the design team and engineer of record.
Engineering credentials behind the build. Where CM projects need site plan approval or permits, structural, civil, MEP, or piping design, OBC review, PSHSR/PSSR reviews, TSSA coordination, or P.Eng. certification, ProWise Engineering carries that work under a separate engagement with a coordinated handover.
Project types where CM works best
Institutional and public-sector builds
Procurement that needs documentation, audit-readiness, owner-controlled trade contracts, or CM-at-Risk under a GMP.
Industrial retrofits with in-house plant teams
Plant modifications and equipment installs where the owner needs to stay close to trade decisions and operational constraints.
Multi-stakeholder developer projects
Joint ventures, REIT-funded builds, or lender-involved projects that need an owner-facing decision trail and independent cost reporting.
Phased rollouts
Programs where the owner wants to re-tender trades between phases while keeping management discipline in one place.
Frequently asked questions
Should I choose CM-as-Agent or CM-at-Risk?
CM-as-Agent fits when you want oversight and trade-contract control. CM-at-Risk fits when you want cost certainty under a GMP and are willing to share decision authority on trade selection.
Can you do CM when design is already underway?
Yes. CM is strongest before tender, but we can pick up oversight at any pre-construction or construction phase. Later CM usually focuses on documentation, change-order discipline, and field reporting.
How do you handle trade conflicts?
We surface conflicts through scope definition, trade coordination meetings, and documented RFIs. Under CM-as-Agent, the contract decision stays with you; we provide the analysis and a recommended resolution.
What is your CM fee structure?
CM-as-Agent is usually a percentage of construction value or a monthly retainer with defined scope. CM-at-Risk is built into the GMP, with fee, contingency, and at-risk costs line-itemed transparently.
Send us the project type, location, target schedule, and CM structure you are scoping.
We respond within one business day with next steps and the clarifying questions needed to scope the engagement.
- Telephone:
- +1 (416) 889-7826
- Email:
- sales@prowisegc.com
Content on this page describes ProWise Construction's construction management services in general terms. It does not constitute a binding fee or scope estimate for any specific project. CM contract structure, fee, scope of services, and deliverables are defined in the executed engagement letter or CM contract for each project. For engineering opinions, P.Eng. certification, or regulatory sign-off, see ProWise Engineering on prowise.ca.