About Brailsford & Dunlavey

Brailsford & Dunlavey is a facility planning and program management firm dedicated to serving major educational institutions, public agencies, and non-profit clients. Our "Value Management" approach to facility development seeks to respond to the basic problem facing any entity which seeks to develop new or renovate existing facilities: How can the project achieve its strategic objectives in the most economical manner possible? Our services are designed to minimize the four primary types of risk associated with facility development projects —  revenue risk, financing risk, capital cost risk, and operating cost risk — while consistently maintaining a focus on our client's mission as the overriding determinant of project priorities.

Our approach to facility planning integrates market research, financial analysis, architectural programming, site evaluation, and economic impact assessment into a single comprehensive process in which users and client decision-makers are involved at every step. The end result is a consensus-driven project in which all vested stakeholders have participated in its creation and understand the logic of planning decisions.

Our program management services emphasize the facilitation of our client's decision-making processes and the relentless execution of their vision. Whether selecting and managing architects and builders, or maintaining control over the three critical variables of quality, cost, and schedule, our role as program managers is to ensure that our client's performance criteria are met in every aspect.

Brailsford & Dunlavey's staff hail from diversified backgrounds in economics, architecture, engineering, urban planning, real estate, finance, marketing, and management.

Over the course of our careers, we have planned and managed hundreds of millions of dollars worth of development projects, and our analysis methodologies and management systems are among the most highly refined in the industry. Above all, our commitment to advancing the strategic goals of our clients has earned the loyalty of a wide variety of institutions and agencies, many of whom have continued to retain our services long after the completion of our initial assignments.

Brailsford & Dunlavey is headquartered in the nation's capital - with regional offices in Chicago, Northern California, and Southern California - and features a client base extending throughout the United States. The firm is a wholly independent, minority-owned business enterprise.

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