• Over three decades military and corporate consulting experience
• Diverse construction management experience
• Senior-level technical expertise
  

Steven J. Farrell is a construction management executive with thirty-four years of military, corporate and consulting experience with international construction, engineering and real estate development firms. After beginning his construction management career in the US Navy Sea Bees, his career has evolved and now centers on large-scale project implementation and construction phase trouble-shooting in both the public and private sectors.

As managing director of Farrell Consulting Group, he continues to develop and lead design and construction teams. The uniqueness of FCG's approach stems from the fact that all teams are specifically customized and tailored on a per project basis to provide maximum impact toward dispute avoidance. This goal is reached by FCG's ability to provide concentrated, senior-level technical expertise to avoid and resolve problems and disputes related to cost and schedule overrun.

Mr. Farrell's diverse construction management experience has involved roles ranging from that of owner-builder, developer and general contractor to construction program manager and management consultant. Mr. Farrell's accomplishments in these various capacities include:

• educational facilities
• both urban commercial and residential high-rise
• hotels and resorts (including gaming facility design and construction)
• power generation
• industrial and process plants
• commuter rail
• heavy civil transportation
• utility infrastructure

In addition to his role as managing director, Mr. Farrell remains very active in every aspect of day-to-day operations. He leads teams that specialize in:

• master planning, design team oversight
• construction contract formation and administration
• project cost and schedule control
• dispute avoidance and resolution
• forensic construction management
• preparation and defense of design and construction claims

Mr. Farrell and Farrell Consulting Group also specialize in litigation support related to these and other issues in the construction industry.

Mr. Farrell received a Bachelor of Science degree in Construction Management from The Pratt Institute School of Architecture in Brooklyn, New York. His professional associations include service on the Massachusetts Association of General Contractors (AGC) and Boston Society of Architects' Joint Task Force on Recommended Best Practices in the Construction Industry, Co-Chair of the Design-Build Committee and member of the Procurement Committee. Mr. Farrell has also contributed to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Division of Capital Asset Management (DCAM) task forces on alternative project delivery systems and alternative dispute resolution.