Chuck Miller is a business coach for small construction companies. Chuck is also an experienced construction expert witness and a certified construction mediator-arbitrator. Because he is also a National Association of Home Builders Certified Aging-In-Place Specialist (CAPS), Chuck is also uniquely qualified to serve as an Aging-In-Place Design Consultant. Chuck has over 50 years of construction industry experience. His company, Chuck Miller Construction Inc. was a nationally-recognized design-build custom home builder and remodeler. Consequently, he has the knowledge to serves as an Owner-Builder Project Manager.

Our Services

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Construction Business Coach

Construction Business Coach

Coaching sessions involve one-on-one meetings with you either in person or via phone or video conference.

Our business coaching services include:

  • Serving as an accountability partner after you have developed your business plan
  • Meeting on a regularly scheduled to insure you are implementing it, and
  • Consulting with you on as needed basis when you need advice on how to address new challenges.

Construction Business Planner

Statistics show that of small businesses in the construction industry:
• About 25% of businesses fail their first year
• 35% fail in their second year
• About 65% fail within their first five years – the second highest failure rate of all industries.

Those failure rates are relatively consistent over time. This suggests that year-over-year economic factors don’t have much of an impact on these failure rates. According to the Small Business Development Center, 9 out of 10 business failures in the U.S. are caused by a lack of planning and general business management skills.

Would You Build or Remodel Without a Plan? A Budget? A Schedule? So, why would you try to build and manage a business without a written plan, without an operating budget, without a formal planning procedure.

Just as blueprints provide the information required to:

  • Determine the resources needed to successfully complete the project
  • Estimate the cost and your anticipated profit
  • Develop the schedule, and
  • Communicate to all parties involved what needs to be done.

A business plan provides a blueprint for managing your building or remodeling company.

Our Business Planning services include working one-on-one with you to develop a working business plan. Your business plan will focus on:

  • Market Research and Analysis
  • Product Development and Pricing Strategy
  • Sales and Marketing Strategy
  • Operations Planning, and
  • Financial Forecasting and Budgeting to achieve and maintain the key financial and operating ratios.
Construction Business Coach
Plan To Profit: Business Planning for Builders and Remodelers

Construction Expert Witness

Chuck Miller’s 50+ years of construction industry experience, professional education and extensive training in alternative dispute resolution. This has provided him with the knowledge and ability to be a convincing construction industry specialist when serving as a professional witness and/or providing expert testimony during a dispute hearing.

Construction Expert Witness
Construction Expert Witness

Construction Mediator-Arbitrator

It is virtually impossible to complete a construction project of any size without a few disputes developing. Although most are minor, some may be major – involving greater amounts of money. A major dispute early in the construction process may cause extreme tension between the parties if not handled expeditiously. Or the project might need to shut down pending the resolution of the dispute.

Because using the court system to settle disputes has become so costly and takes so long, many contractors and tradespeople don’t pursue litigation against an unreasonable client, even if they know that they’re right. Even the smallest of construction cases with the most cost-conscious legal counsel will run $300,000 to litigate. On average, U.S. district court cases take more than 12 months longer to get to trial than cases adjudicated by arbitration. Additionally, either party can appeal a court decision if it is unhappy with the verdict. And the appeal process can add many months and even years to the dispute resolution process.

Chuck Miller is a Construction Dispute Resolution Services (CDRS) certified construction mediator-arbitrator, has extensive training in alternative dispute resolution and is experienced in conducting an independent, unbiased and neutral mediation or arbitration process.

Construction Mediator Arbitrator
Construction Mediator-Arbitrator

Aging-In-Place Design Consultant

Chuck Miller is a National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) Certified Aging-In-Place Specialist (CAPS)

Surveys show that most seniors would prefer to age in place. Home modifications are critical to this process.

As a CAPS, Chuck has the knowledge and experience to assist seniors and their architects, designers, builders, or remodelers in the design of their homes to incorporate universal design features into their home. Universal design is a concept in which products and environments are designed to be usable by all people, to the greatest extent possible, without the need for adaptation or specialized design.

Aging In Place Design Consultant
Aging-In-Place Design Consultant

Owner—Builder Project Manager

According to residential permit data from the U.S. Census Bureau, owner-built homes account for approximately 7% of the total number of private single family homes completed in the U.S. each year. While being responsible for the construction of your own home can be rewarding on many levels, it is complicated, challenging and disruptive. While some of a contractor’s work is done on the job site, most of the work is planning ahead of time – so that things will go well on the job site.

Based on my 50+ years of construction industry experience, I can state with some degree of certainty that Murphy’s Law is alive and well on all construction sites. “Things will go wrong in any given situation, if you give them a chance.” The list of potential problems is extensive for any general contractor and includes items from the trivial to the catastrophic. An owner-builder’s lack of experience in construction usually means they can expect more than the average share of surprises and problems.

The better the planning, the fewer the problems and surprises.

Our Owner-Builder Construction Project Management services include assisting with the planning and budgeting, permitting, selection of trade contractors and suppliers, and scheduling of your custom home, remodeling, or commercial construction project.

Owner Builder Project Manager
Owner-Builder Project Manager

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