Multifamily

The handoffs change everything. Knox Street is a JV with Balfour Beatty — a 5-level below-grade garage, a 10-level Class AA office building, a 28-level multifamily tower, and a 29-level hotel/condo tower on an active retail corridor. Brian Wildman runs all the interior finishes outside the front-of-house amenity areas. The work is not just multifamily construction — it’s coordinating where structure meets finish, where two GCs meet one slab, and where a residential lobby meets a hotel porte-cochere across the same building line.

You run the fix and the schedule simultaneously. Brian described it as "changing the tires with the car going" — if a unit on one floor needs rework, you cannot stop the project to fix it, so the rework runs in parallel with the production crew on the floor above. That only works if your QC catches the issue early and your trade partners can absorb the parallel sequencing. Both come from PM continuity, not from a new process bolted on mid-project.

That depends on the unit. Standard apartment finishes run to typical industry tolerances. High-end custom condos — like the 46 buyer-customized units at Knox Street, where buyers have personally selected every surface — run to 1/16th of an inch. As Brian put it, you cannot shim it, you cannot caulk it. The tolerance posture has to be set in preconstruction, before the schemes go to trades, or you will build the wrong building.

A scheme is a base finish package — color palette, material family, fixture package — applied across units with buyer customizations layered on top. The risk is documentation. On Knox Street, a scheme listed a common standard material for a unit, but the buyer had selected something custom. The trade installed exactly what the scheme said. The standard material went in, then had to be torn out and reinstalled with the correct custom selection. The cascade hit the schedule for that floor and the one above. The fix is not a smarter trade — it is a tighter document trail and a dedicated QC role that walks every unit against the buyer’s spec sheet.

It is the hidden variable in quality. Brian’s team built demo units early to set the quality standard at Knox Street, but the trades who built the demos were not carried over to production. New crews, same spec, different hands — and that is where QC gaps started. The demo team had internalized the buyer selections; the production team just read the scheme. We now write trade continuity from demo to production into how we plan luxury and custom multifamily work.

Where it changes outcomes, yes. ANDRES holds long-tenure trade partner relationships — Southside Environmental, twenty-plus years with Greg Manao — and the team treats finish QC as scope, not a punch-list step. Self-perform is one tool. Trade partner continuity is the other. Both serve the same goal: the hands that learned your project keep working on your project.