Construction Management with a Personal Touch
PSM Associates Inc. is a Construction Management and Inspection Services firm based in San Carlos, California, serving public agencies exclusively. It provides Resident Engineers, Office Engineers, Construction Inspectors, and Construction Contract Administrators for capital projects in Agency Right of Way, easements, and public utility easements. Project experience includes BART transit station improvements, rail interlocking renewals, civil grading for rail storage yards, and construction management at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Founded in 2014, PSM serves as a prime consultant and sub-consultant on public works contracts.
Full-service construction management for public agency capital projects in Agency Right of Way, easements, and public utility easements. PSM provides integrated CM teams including Resident Engineers, Office Engineers, and Construction Inspectors working as prime consultant or embedded within combined consultant/agency teams.
Provides professional construction management services from design review through project closeout. Resident engineers lead field teams, manage document control, perform constructability reviews, coordinate contractor activities, negotiate change orders, and conduct schedule and claims analysis.
Delivers comprehensive administrative and procedural support to project staff. Office engineers manage document control, track submittals and RFIs, maintain logs, route approvals, upload inspection reports, and assist with contractor invoice verification.
Provides rigorous field inspection to verify and document contractor compliance with project specifications and drawings. Inspectors perform quality assurance verifications, record daily reports with photos, verify quantities for payment, and coordinate with agency maintenance.
Transit · Rail · Federal · Research Facilities · Government
San Francisco Bay Area, CA · Transit · Client: BART
PSM personnel supported the Civil Engineering group within the M&E division performing construction engineering services and served as a liaison to the Maintenance Division.
Livermore, CA · Research Facilities · Client: US Department of Energy
PSM Associates as the Prime Consultant provided a Construction Manager for a variety of projects such as Cooling and Heating Asset Management Program (CHAMP), building demolition, and lab upgrades.
Daly City, CA · Transit · Client: BART
PSM personnel served as Resident Engineer, Office Engineer, and Construction Inspectors, responsible for coordinating work between the contractor and BART Operations.
Lafayette, CA · Transit · Client: BART
PSM provided the Resident Engineer for this station improvement project to remove and replace parking lots A and B, install new parking lot lighting, and make ADA improvements.