KKG, Inc.

KKG Inc. is a Construction Management firm that has provided pre-construction, scheduling, estimating, purchasing, constructability, project management, and owner’s representation since 2001.   We are located in Upland, California. Our location allows us to effectively cover not only Los Angeles County, but San Bernardino, Riverside and Orange Counties.

KKG Inc. came into existence at the request of many former clients of Brian Kent after he concluded a 24 year career working in the executive management of larger, national construction companies.  As a consequence of this client demand, we have been blessed with the problem of growing the organization to keep up with client demand rather than having to spend our energies towards drumming up business so we could grow.  With that said, we are always trying to increase our customer base and grow the organization in a careful fashion to meet the needs of new as well as existing clients.

Prior to starting KKG, Brian Kent worked as a Vice President for a number of larger, $100,000,000 a year general contracting firms including Lyle Parks Jr. Inc., Oltmans, Ray Wilson, and Peck Jones.  Brian’s construction background represents a wide array of experience and skills.   Working as a general contractor, he recognized the need on the part of the owners for a third party management entity that could act as intermediary between the GC and owner as well as serve as a lookout for future problems and opportunities to save money and effectively act on them before they were overlooked.   When the opportunity arose in 2001, Brian thought it was time to apply the knowledge and experience gained from more than a billion dollars and many hundreds of projects to the formation of KKG.

This allowed him to position KKG to apply this wealth of knowledge and management skills to a wider array of projects, for multiple clients, rather than limiting the company to only managing what it could build in a hands-on fashion as a general contractor.

KKG is licensed with both A and B licenses in California, meaning:  We know how to build.  We are fully qualified to do engineering projects as well as structures.  As compared to many firms currently in the Construction Management arena, we stick to construction management because candidly, we possess a wealth of expertise that we can spread over a broader cross section of the industry by serving in this administrative role as opposed to building the project brick by brick.  Construction Management is not an ancillary division meant to generate additional revenue to the bottom line, as it is with many larger CM firms that are in fact subsidiaries to larger general construction firms.  We are a powerful support mechanism that beyond basic project administration, can step in when needed for technical issues and to advise on the best way to achieve the goal.  This type of approach is most cost effective for the client.  We bring as much expertise as is needed to adequately handle the task at hand.  Not too much and not too little.  Our employees have been on the contractor side of this fence many times in the past dealing with construction management field personnel that were not up to the task of representing their client. These experiences have taught our employees just how important it is to provide a consistent superior service to our clients.

Our particular strength and market niche tends toward organizations that want full service construction management. Historically, our clients tend to be ones who prefer that form of global oversight and capability in their Construction Manager.  Normally, the cost of architectural construction administration is cut by half because of the strong role we play.  We have never failed on a Guaranteed Maximum Price project to offset our entire construction management fee in the savings realized through our buyout oversight and change order claim reductions. On top of all of this, being a smaller company gives our organization the ability to work as a cohesive team to deliver a complete project.  Each member does what they are excellent at doing rather than a case of making a smaller group of people assigned to a single project shoulder elements of work they are ill suited to perform.

Some of the specific services KKG Inc. offers are:  Preconstruction development, public agency liaison and expediting, scheduling, public utility liaison, bid management services, contractor prequalification and referrals, value engineering, construction quality surveys, budgeting and hard estimating, constructability analysis, solicitation of proposals from and hiring of design team members, specification writing, accounting services, weekly job meetings (discuss potential changes in cost, schedule or design and prepare appropriate reports), job walks (to assure quality of the work as well as percentage complete), evaluate and negotiate all requested change orders, review and approve all applications for progress payments and payment breakdowns to assure that the costs are appropriate, monitor milestone schedules, monitor contractors and consultants through all aspects of the base building construction so that the project is delivered on schedule and at the agreed-upon budget.

KKG has had extensive experience in many types of construction:

We have been incredibly successful with managing multi-family, affordable housing in the Los Angeles and surrounding areas.  KKG has enjoyed a close relationship with Meta Housing Corporation & Essex Property Trust and has managed many of their affordable, multi-family projects.

KKG has also dealt with a number of Educational and Institutional Client’s where our employees have had to work within all aspects of Prevailing Wage laws.

We look forward to the opportunity to join your team and be of service to your organization.