Charleston Office

706 Orleans Rd.
Charleston, SC 29407
843.769.4449

Greenville Office

84 Villa Rd. Suite 300
Greenville, SC 29615
864.288.6353

Owner's Agent Representation

Kestrel serves as Owner’s Representative or Agent in most construction and remediation projects. Often, that role includes construction quality assurance testing, observation, and documentation. We provide procurement assistance ranging from prequalification and competitive bidding of construction contractors and suppliers to negotiated procurement involving specialized suppliers and contractors and design-build contractors.

Kestrel provides contract preparation support – often in coordination with in-house and retain legal counsel. We provide all contract administration as Owners’ Representative or Agent, and the scope of the agency responsibilities and authorities is defined by the client in our contract. As representative or agent we often take on responsibility for management of compliance with certain regulations, permit conditions, orders, and agreements. We also frequently serve as primary contact with regulatory agencies on behalf of our clients and provide communications with the community, including neighbors, the press, local officials, and special interest groups.

As trustee of the Pinewood Site, we have managed more than 40 million dollars in expenditures over 7 years at a site that was at one time the second largest commercial waste landfill in the United States. Occupying nearly a square mile, the landfill and associated storage and treatment facilities and buffer lands were turned over to a trust funded by the bankruptcy of Safety-Kleen. Kestrel invests the trust funds, manages all accounting and legal support for the trust, holds all environmental permits, and hires contractors for operations, maintenance, transportation, disposal, environmental monitoring, engineering, legal support, accounting, auditing, and specialty needs. We have managed more than 25 contractors, consultants, and suppliers over the past 7 years. Major projects have included closure of the abandoned landfill and storage and treatment facilities, and construction of major improvements in structural, mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, computer controls, and standby power generation.

Kestrel’s approach to dismantling two fertilizer plants saved our client more than 60% of the cost of traditional demolition techniques, translating into savings of more than one million dollars per plant. Kestrel’s approach to the Removal Action at the pesticide blending facility saved 50% to 60% of the cost for typical approaches, based on precedents at other similar sites. The approach included a sampling plan designed to quickly focus on a single controlling constituent of concern, and then to enable surgical excavation of affected soils and wastes. The approved plan included no requirement for confirmation sampling. Quantities and costs were tightly controlled during the 17 day on-site effort.