Project Planning & Coordination

Design coordination, budgeting, scheduling, entitlements, and permitting for owners and developers across Greater Philadelphia.

By the time a contractor hands you a bid, most of your project has already been decided. The budget, the schedule, and the approvals take shape months before anyone breaks ground. That is where PH&C does its most important work.

From our office in Wayne, Pennsylvania, we plan and coordinate development projects across Greater Philadelphia, New Jersey, Delaware, and the Mid-Atlantic. We work for the owner, pulling the design team, the budget, and the approvals into one plan and keeping them there.

Where projects really go wrong

Seldom in the field. Usually on paper, months earlier.

The township planning commission meets once a month, so a missed submission deadline costs you thirty days. PennDOT may want a traffic study before it will review your highway occupancy permit. The conservation district won’t act on your NPDES permit until the stormwater design is settled. The water authority wants its own review before it issues a will-serve letter. Meanwhile, the architect and the civil engineer are drawing two slightly different projects, and your lender is waiting on a budget nobody has tested.

None of this is unusual. Someone just has to hold all of it at once.

Why owners call us

A general contractor’s pre-construction estimate is shaped by the job it hopes to win. National program managers bring process, but not always someone who has sat through a hearing in your township.

We sit on your side of the table. We manage planning, design coordination, procurement, and site work directly, then bring in a commercial general contractor for the building itself. You get one point of contact, and you don’t pay a builder’s markup on your site.

What we coordinate

The program and the design. Initial program development defines what you’re building. Then we keep the architect and engineers aligned through schematic design and design development, including specialty systems like refrigeration and process equipment.
The money and the clock. A critical-path project schedule shows what actually drives your start date. Proforma analysis and hard and soft cost budgeting, detailed estimating and value engineering, and cash-flow analysis keep the numbers honest as the drawings change.
The approvals. Land development and zoning, highway permits, NPDES stormwater permits, environmental permits for stream crossings and sewer modules, utility service, and building permits.
The handoff. Pre-construction meetings put the owner, designers, and contractors in one room before the first crew shows up.

We’ve done this for grocery stores and shopping-center redevelopments, healthcare and institutional buildings, offices, self-storage, mixed-use, and residential communities. The approvals change from town to town. Our approach doesn’t.

Experience you can’t shortcut

Paul Harris founded PH&C in 2010, after serving as an engineering officer in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, managing projects for a general contractor, and working as a development manager for a publicly traded REIT. Our engineers and construction managers have worked for owners and builders. One spent years as a township engineer, reviewing plans like yours.

That’s how we know which review comment will cost you a month. It’s also how we spot the value-engineering idea that only moves the cost into the field.

Hire us for all of your pre-construction, or for the pieces your team can’t cover. Either way, we treat your money like our own.

Great projects are won before ground breaks. Our team maps scope, budget, schedule, and approvals up front, so you move forward with a clear plan and no surprises. From feasibility and site analysis to permitting strategy and procurement, we align every stakeholder around one path to delivery.