Capitol Construction Management, Inc. — Owner's Representation
The owner's seat
on mission critical work.
Data centers rarely fail on design. They fail on long-lead equipment, on commissioning, and on the distance between the schedule on paper and the one in the field. We represent the owner across all three.
Our role
We do not bid the work we oversee. Independence is the product.
An owner's representative has exactly one client interest to protect. Capitol CM holds no construction contract on the projects we manage, carries no equipment lines, and takes no fee tied to the cost of the work. When the GMP arrives, when the change order lands, when commissioning slips a month — we are reading those documents for you, not defending them.
What we protectCapital. Schedule. Scope. In that order when they conflict, unless you tell us otherwise — and we will tell you when they conflict.
How we engageFixed monthly fee or lump sum by phase. Never a percentage of construction cost, which pays us more when your project costs more.
Where we startEarlier is cheaper. Most of the money is decided before a shovel moves — in site selection, utility commitments, and the procurement strategy for long-lead gear.
Scope of service
Owner's rep,
cradle to IST.
We can carry the whole lifecycle or step in at any phase — including mid-project, when a job is already in trouble.
Due diligence & site selection
- Utility capacity and interconnection timeline verification
- Fiber routes, carrier diversity, latency constraints
- Water availability and cooling strategy implications
- Entitlements, zoning, noise and generator permitting exposure
- Order-of-magnitude budget and schedule reality check
Preconstruction
- Basis of design and redundancy review against business requirements
- Independent estimate validation and GMP interrogation
- Long-lead procurement strategy — generators, switchgear, UPS, chillers, CDUs
- OFCI versus CFCI matrix and owner-furnished equipment logistics
- Baseline schedule, milestone structure, and risk register
Delivery oversight
- GC and trade partner selection, scoping and contract negotiation
- Change order review, entitlement analysis, claim avoidance
- Pay application and lien waiver verification
- Schedule oversight, recovery planning, pull planning facilitation
- Field quality and installation conformance on the owner's behalf
Commissioning & turnover
- Cx agent scoping and oversight through Levels 1–5
- Script review and integrated systems testing witness
- Failure-mode and load-bank testing verification
- Punch, closeout, as-builts, O&M and warranty administration
- Operations handover and training coordination
Where we work
Mission critical
Rack densities moved faster than the buildings did. Air-cooled halls are being retrofitted for direct-to-chip, utility queues now set schedules that used to be set by steel, and equipment lead times price the job before design is finished. Those are owner problems before they are contractor problems.
Market research
US Data Center
Atlas
We maintain a register of 242 major US data center campuses — planned capacity, build status, market concentration, and which sites are facing moratoriums, referendum petitions or permit litigation. It is the same reference we use when an owner asks whether a site is deliverable.
Who does the work
Leadership
Frank Fernandez
PresidentThree decades across construction management, general contracting and owner's representation — with executive responsibility for preconstruction, procurement and delivery on projects from $200,000 to $450 million.
Frank has sat on both sides of the table: leading builder-side operations at national contractors, and representing owners in a pure advisory capacity. That combination is the point. He has written the GMPs he now reviews, run the schedules he now audits, and negotiated the change orders he now contests.
A Lean Construction practitioner and pull-planning facilitator, he has trained owner staff, design teams and trade partners on planning discipline — the mechanism that converts a schedule into a cost outcome.
Extended team
Assigned by projectCapitol CM staffs each engagement to its scope rather than carrying overhead between projects. Depending on the assignment, that includes cost and estimating support, scheduling, commissioning oversight, and environmental, health and safety specialists — brought on under Capitol CM's direction and accountable to the owner, not to the builder.
For procurement & supplier onboarding
Capability
statement
Capitol CM holds small, disabled-veteran and minority business enterprise certifications — qualifying for owner and hyperscaler supplier diversity programs as well as public agency participation goals.
Registrations & codes
Verified- CA General Contractor
- Lic. #996176
- Small Business (SBE)
- #1766319
- DBE
- #41773
- MBE
- Certified
- SB / DVBE
- Certified
- CAGE Code
- 079273042
- NAICS
- 541611 · 541618 · 541610
541330 · 236210 · 236220 - SIC
- 1541 · 1542 · 8741
Start a conversation
Bring us in
before the GMP.
Phone
510.882.8477Office
Capitol Construction Management, Inc.Fort Lauderdale, FL