Construction Advisory & Integrity Monitoring
Guardian Group is a boutique advisory firm that protects the budget, schedule and integrity of high-stakes capital projects—bringing owner’s-side rigor, engineering judgment and independent oversight to the work that cannot afford to go wrong.
Nearly two decades on the nation’s most scrutinized public and private programs.
Experience across the nation’s most scrutinized public and private capital programs
Reflects engagements led by Guardian Group’s principal in owner’s-representative, integrity-monitoring and advisory roles. Client names denote programs served and are used for reference only.
The firm
With nearly two decades of construction project management, integrity monitoring and advisory experience originating in the NYC tristate area, Guardian Group understands the nuanced work of getting construction right. As a boutique firm, we provide managerial-level participation with second-to-none quality, attention and technical expertise—through a well-defined but flexible approach shaped to each client’s project.
Our engineering, investigative and financial monitorship services give owners a clear gauge of project vitals from start to finish—qualifying risk, and detecting and mitigating fraudulent, unsafe, wasteful and non-compliant practices before they compromise a project’s visibility, budget, schedule or outcome.
What we do
Preventing fraud and waste begins by naming the risk. We build a project-specific risk hierarchy from the drawings, specifications, contracts and schedules, then track it through structured field and desk audits across the life of the project.
Learn more →Routine site visits verify that materials, equipment and procedures match the contract—no inferior or non-compliant substitutions—while we reconcile look-aheads against actual performance and document progress meetings with detailed minutes.
Learn more →We review unforeseen work, change orders, time-and-material tickets and claims—verifying labor, rates, quantities, equipment usage, and overhead and profit against the defined extra-work scope, including impacts to schedule and contract value.
Learn more →Our differentiator
Every engagement is managed and documented against our Playbook—a proprietary framework that meticulously defines the tasks and responsibilities within our scope, so coverage is consistent, comprehensive and auditable from conception to closeout.
It is the reason our clients receive the same disciplined paper trail whether we are reviewing a single requisition or monitoring a billion-dollar redevelopment. Process rigor, made repeatable.
Industries
Owner’s-side oversight for affordable housing development, from financing milestones through closeout.
Fast-moving interim and supportive housing developments delivered under public scrutiny and tight timelines.
Management and oversight of projects funded by local, state and federal dollars—built for audit.
Airports, marine and rail—including terminal redevelopment and active-facility construction.
Complex, high-visibility venue construction where schedule and quality are unforgiving.
Critical utility and infrastructure work—testing, switchover and commissioning oversight.
Selected engagements
Independent compliance and integrity monitoring across a multi-billion-dollar terminal program—risk profiling, requisition and change-order review, and real-time reporting to agency stakeholders.
Independent oversight of a large concrete parking and rental-car facility at Newark Liberty—verifying installed work against contract, reviewing requisitions and change orders, and reporting compliance to ownership.
Leadership
Owner & Head of Construction Advisory
An Engineering, Safety and Environmental Subject Matter Expert with nearly two decades in the NYC tristate area, Eric anchors every Guardian Group engagement—from large-scale capital and emergency-recovery work to the highest-profile projects in the country.
His experience spans the Port Authority’s Newark Terminal One, JFK and LaGuardia, PATH, the WTC 9/11 Memorial & Museum, O’Hare, and work for FEMA, the NJ Department of Treasury and the Cities of New York and Chicago.
Contact
Tell us about the program—its stage, scope and where you need coverage. A principal will respond within one business day. Every inquiry is treated in confidence.