Homebuilder and Land Development

If you’re a residential land development company or homebuilder, you most likely downsized your staff in an effort to ride out the downturn in the housing construction market.

If you are gearing up to start a new project and need field supervision, project or construction management assistance, but not ready, willing or able to add payroll, training and overhead costs, the solution is hiring an experienced land development professional consultant such as Jeremy Rappoport.

What RDCS LLC Can Do For You:

Is your homebuilding superintendent qualified to supervise site grading, infrastructure and landscape improvements? Your company can benefit from using an experienced field superintendent and professional project manager who has successfully managed multiple master planned communities and infill projects

You work directly with Jeremy Rappoport, not a lower level associate or additional layers of management adding to your consultant cost.

1. CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT CONSULTING:
   1. Perform offsite superintendent duties, schedule and supervise sub-contractors for:
      1. Mass and finish grading, storm drain, sewer, water, dry utilities, street improvements, paving, and lighting.
      2. Common and private slope, street medians and right of way retaining wall, masonry, concrete, monuments, landscape and irrigation improvements.
      3. Biologic mitigation and restoration, conformance to CEQA (California Environmental Quality Act) and Army Corps of Engineers (ACOE) regulations.
      4. Supervise, implement and monitor conformance to Storm Water Pollution and Prevention Plan (SWPPP)
   2. Construction site safety meetings, site inspections.
   3. Update and maintain construction schedule.
   4. Approve sub-contractor invoices, meet with consultants, contractors, and agency representatives.
   5. Manage offsite neighbors, new homeowners, and HOA’s.
2. PROJECT MANAGEMENT CONSULTING:
   1. Develop pro-forma development budgets for land acquisition.
   2. Manage and update the construction budget.
   3. Design and implement critical path construction schedule.
   4. Procure and manage professional consultants.
   5. Sub-contractor bidding, estimating and construction contract purchasing.
   6. Contract administration, construction change orders and addendum.
   7. Entitlement and due diligence research.
   8. Agency coordination, trouble-shooting and processing.

WHY JEREMY RAPPOPORT?

Experience and results. Since 1980, Jeremy has worked for The Baldwin Company, Continental Homes, D.R. Horton Homes, Starwood Santa Fe Valley Partners and K. Hovnanian Homes. Mr. Rappoport worked in positions of increasing responsibility, from landscape superintendent to grading and offsite superintendent, and senior management positions as Purchasing Manager, Director of Operations, Land Development Manager and Director of Land Development.

Jeremy Rappoport is an accomplished land development professional, possessing field supervisory experience combined with rock solid project and construction management savvy. Mr. Rappoport supervised the landscape, mass grading and infrastructure development for the master planned communities Carmel del Mar, a 1,500 acre planned community in North City West and Rancho Carrillo, an 800-acre master planned community in Carlsbad California.

In his management capacities, Mr. Rappoport directed development and construction operations at The Crosby Estate in Rancho Santa Fe, an 800 acre custom master planned community, Pizza D’ Oro, a 42 building mixed used condominium/retail development in Oceanside, Lake Rancho Viejo, a 250 acre single family development in Fallbrook, and Bella Lago, a 156 single family development in Chula Vista, California. Jeremy tirelessly coordinated with agencies and municipalities to resolve environmental, fire, biologic and other disputes that threatened to delay permit issuance or satisfy entitlement conditions of approval.

Call Jeremy Rappoport at 858-205-4748 or jeremy@landscapeexpertwitness.com for more information about residential and commercial land development consulting, construction management and field supervision services.