Expert Construction Consulting in Florida
COSOLCO Construction Solutions Consulting brings together international expertise in construction cost consulting, cost and commercial management, project controls, contract administration, procurement strategy, claims prevention, dispute resolution, and infrastructure resilience advisory.
Based in Miami, Florida, COSOLCO supports developers, investors, contractors, subcontractors, asset owners, lenders, and public/private sector clients who require disciplined commercial insight, technical understanding, and strategic construction advice.
Our expertise is built on more than 60 years of combined international experience across construction, engineering, quantity surveying, commercial management, legal analysis, contract administration, and major-project delivery.
Specialist Construction Consultancy Backed by International Experience
COSOLCO’s expertise is grounded in major construction, infrastructure, commercial, public sector, and development experience across the United States, United Kingdom, Europe, and the Caribbean.
This international background gives COSOLCO a broader perspective on how projects should be planned, procured, governed, managed, and commercially controlled.
Our experience allows us to support clients across:
- Cost and commercial management
- Construction contract management
- Quantity surveying and cost planning
- Project controls and programme oversight
- Procurement and tender strategy
- Claims prevention and dispute avoidance
- Dispute resolution and claims management
- Construction risk and compliance advisory
- Infrastructure resilience and climate-adaptive construction strategy
COSOLCO’s value lies in combining these disciplines into one integrated advisory approach.
Our Core Areas of Expertise
Cost and Commercial Management Expertise
COSOLCO has specialist expertise in managing the financial and commercial performance of construction projects from feasibility through completion.
Our cost and commercial expertise includes:
- Construction cost planning
- Budget preparation and validation
- Cost reporting
- Cashflow forecasting
- Value engineering
- Variation and change order management
- Payment assessment
- Cost-to-complete analysis
- Final account support
- Commercial reporting and governance
This expertise helps clients understand project cost exposure, reduce budget uncertainty, and make informed commercial decisions throughout the construction lifecycle.
Quantity Surveying and Construction Cost Consulting Expertise
COSOLCO’s cost consultancy capability is strengthened by quantity surveying experience across complex construction environments.
Our construction cost consulting expertise supports:
- Developers testing project feasibility
- Investors reviewing pro formas and contingencies
- Contractors preparing or reviewing bids
- Owners planning capital works
- Lenders seeking independent project cost visibility
- Asset managers assessing refurbishment and lifecycle costs
With strong cost planning and quantity surveying insight, COSOLCO helps clients identify cost drivers early and reduce the risk of underfunded or poorly controlled projects.
Project Controls and Programme Oversight Expertise
COSOLCO provides expertise in project controls, programme oversight, reporting, and early warning systems.
Our project controls expertise includes:
- Programme and schedule monitoring
- Milestone tracking
- Cost and schedule integration
- Risk registers
- Change control
- Progress reporting
- Forecasting
- Executive dashboards
- Corrective action planning
This allows clients to see where a project stands, what is at risk, and what action is needed before cost or delay issues escalate.
Construction Contract Management Expertise
COSOLCO has strong expertise in construction contract management, contract administration, and commercial governance.
Our contract management expertise includes:
- Contract review and administration
- Contractor obligation monitoring
- Notices and entitlement support
- Payment process review
- Change order and variation management
- Contract compliance
- Commercial correspondence support
- Claims awareness
- Final account and closeout support
This expertise is particularly valuable where projects involve complex contractual arrangements, multiple stakeholders, design changes, payment issues, extensions of time, or disputed variations.
Procurement Strategy and Tender Advisory Expertise
COSOLCO supports clients with procurement strategy, tender planning, contractor selection, and risk-based procurement decisions.
Our procurement expertise includes:
- Procurement route selection
- Tender document review
- Contractor prequalification
- Bid analysis
- Tender evaluation
- Negotiation support
- Contract strategy
- Risk allocation review
- Procurement governance
Effective procurement is one of the most important ways to protect project cost, quality, schedule, and delivery performance. COSOLCO helps clients make procurement decisions with greater clarity and commercial discipline.
Claims Prevention and Dispute Avoidance Expertise
COSOLCO’s expertise includes proactive claims prevention and dispute avoidance, helping clients identify issues before they become formal disputes.
Our claims prevention expertise includes:
- Early commercial risk review
- Contract entitlement analysis
- Variation and change control review
- Delay and disruption risk identification
- Payment dispute assessment
- Documentation strategy
- Commercial negotiation support
- Project recovery planning
COSOLCO’s approach is practical and commercially realistic. We focus on early intervention, clear documentation, and strategic resolution to reduce avoidable conflict.
Dispute Resolution and Claims Management Expertise
Where disputes arise, COSOLCO brings technical, commercial, contractual, and legal understanding to construction claims and dispute resolution support.
Our claims and dispute expertise includes:
- Claims preparation
- Claims defence
- Entitlement analysis
- Quantum assessment
- Delay and disruption support
- Contractual correspondence review
- Negotiation support
- Mediation support
- Adjudication and arbitration support
- Litigation support where required
Construction disputes require more than legal argument. They require evidence, technical understanding, cost analysis, contract interpretation, delay assessment, and a clear commercial strategy. COSOLCO helps clients understand the strength of their position and pursue practical resolution.
Engineering and Technical Construction Expertise
COSOLCO’s advisory work is strengthened by engineering and technical construction understanding.
This allows us to assess construction issues not only from a commercial or contractual perspective, but also from a technical and practical delivery perspective.
Our technical insight supports:
- Buildability review
- Design risk awareness
- Scope clarity
- Contractor performance review
- Technical-commercial risk assessment
- Change order evaluation
- Defect and completion issue analysis
- Resilience and durability considerations
This combination of engineering, commercial, and contract knowledge helps clients make better decisions on complex construction projects.
Legal, Contractual and Commercial Insight
COSOLCO’s expertise is distinguished by its combination of construction, commercial, and legal insight.
This does not mean replacing legal counsel where formal legal advice is required. Instead, COSOLCO provides construction-focused commercial and contractual analysis that helps clients understand risk, evidence, entitlement, cost exposure, and practical resolution options.
This perspective is valuable for:
- Contract-sensitive projects
- Change order disputes
- Payment disputes
- Delay and disruption issues
- Claims preparation and defence
- Procurement risk
- Contract administration
- Dispute avoidance strategy
By combining legal awareness with construction cost and commercial management expertise, COSOLCO helps clients approach disputes and risks with clarity.
Infrastructure Resilience and Climate-Adaptive Expertise
COSOLCO has a specialist focus on infrastructure resilience and climate-adaptive construction strategy, particularly for Florida and other hurricane-prone regions.
Our infrastructure resilience expertise includes:
- Hurricane-resilient construction strategy
- Flood and storm risk planning
- Climate-adaptive project considerations
- Durable materials and lifecycle cost review
- Resilient procurement strategy
- Utility continuity and backup power considerations
- Insurance and capital planning considerations
- Recovery and rebuild strategy
- Risk-based contract and governance frameworks
In Florida, resilience is a commercial, operational, and public safety issue. COSOLCO helps clients consider resilience early so that stronger construction decisions are built into cost planning, procurement, contracts, and delivery strategy.
Sector Expertise
COSOLCO’s expertise applies across a wide range of project types and sectors.
Real Estate and Development
COSOLCO supports developers and investors involved in:
- Luxury residential projects
- Condominium developments
- Mixed-use schemes
- Multi-family communities
- Office developments
- Retail and restaurant fit-outs
- Private residential improvements
Our expertise helps clients test feasibility, validate budgets, manage procurement, monitor delivery, and reduce commercial risk.
Hospitality and Leisure
COSOLCO supports hospitality clients undertaking:
- Hotel developments
- Resort improvements
- Renovations and repositioning projects
- Guest amenity upgrades
- Restaurant and hospitality fit-outs
- Capital improvement programmes
Hospitality projects often require careful cost control, schedule discipline, brand-standard compliance, operational phasing, and contractor coordination. COSOLCO helps clients manage these risks with commercial clarity.
Industrial and Logistics
COSOLCO supports industrial and logistics projects including:
- Warehouses
- Distribution centres
- Logistics parks
- Light industrial facilities
- Storage and operational facilities
- Expansion and refurbishment works
These projects often require strong cost planning, procurement strategy, programme control, and coordination between design, operations, and delivery teams.
Infrastructure and Public Sector
COSOLCO’s expertise extends to infrastructure-related and public sector projects, including:
- Public buildings
- Civic and community assets
- Healthcare facilities
- Education facilities
- Transport-related assets
- Utility-related infrastructure
- Resilience-focused upgrades
Public and infrastructure projects require governance, accountability, procurement discipline, stakeholder reporting, and long-term value consideration. COSOLCO’s integrated expertise is well suited to these environments.
Commercial Interiors, Refurbishment and Capital Works
COSOLCO supports owners and asset managers undertaking:
- Office fit-outs
- Tenant improvements
- Building modernisation works
- Refurbishments
- Capital improvement programmes
- Lifecycle replacement works
- Resilience upgrades
These projects require clear scope definition, cost planning, contractor procurement, change control, and handover management.
Distressed, Delayed or Over-Budget Projects
COSOLCO adds particular value where projects are already under pressure.
We support projects affected by:
- Cost overruns
- Programme delay
- Payment disputes
- Change order disputes
- Poor reporting visibility
- Contractor performance concerns
- Scope uncertainty
- Claims and counterclaims
- Lender or investor concern
Our role is to identify the commercial position, assess the evidence, stabilise reporting, prioritise action, and support practical recovery.
Why COSOLCO’s Expertise Matters
Construction projects can fail financially even when the physical work is progressing. Weak cost control, poor procurement, unclear contracts, unmanaged change, late reporting, and unresolved claims can seriously damage project outcomes.
COSOLCO’s expertise helps clients:
- Make better-informed decisions
- Protect project budgets
- Improve commercial control
- Reduce dispute exposure
- Strengthen contract administration
- Increase cost and schedule visibility
- Improve procurement outcomes
- Support resilient construction decisions
- Recover troubled projects
Our integrated expertise gives clients a clearer view of both the technical and commercial realities of their projects.
What Makes COSOLCO Different?
COSOLCO is different because it combines several disciplines that are often separated across different advisors.
Our expertise combines:
- Cost consultancy
- Quantity surveying
- Commercial management
- Construction contract management
- Engineering understanding
- Legal and claims awareness
- Project controls
- Risk advisory
- Infrastructure resilience insight
This means clients receive joined-up advice that considers cost, contract, risk, programme, technical delivery, and long-term asset performance together.
COSOLCO is especially suited for clients who need strategic support on complex, high-value, contract-sensitive, delayed, over-budget, or resilience-focused construction projects.
Leadership Expertise
J. Campbell Yeubrey
Chief Executive Officer
J. Campbell Yeubrey brings a rare combination of legal, engineering, commercial, and construction experience to COSOLCO.
Her background includes legal and engineering qualifications, international construction advisory experience, contract and procurement insight, commercial risk analysis, dispute awareness, and major-project governance.
As CEO, J. Campbell Yeubrey leads COSOLCO’s strategic direction, client advisory approach, infrastructure resilience focus, and integrated legal-commercial-technical methodology.
Her expertise supports clients who require clear judgment across cost, contracts, risk, procurement, disputes, and project governance.
Stephen P. Yeubrey MRICS
Managing Director
Stephen P. Yeubrey is a Chartered Quantity Surveyor with extensive experience in cost consultancy, commercial management, procurement, contracts, and major project delivery.
His expertise includes construction cost planning, quantity surveying, commercial management, contract administration, procurement strategy, project financial control, cost reporting, and final account support.
As Managing Director, Stephen strengthens COSOLCO’s cost and commercial management capability and brings deep practical experience in managing construction project financial performance.
Expertise Across the Full Construction Lifecycle
COSOLCO supports clients at every stage of the construction project lifecycle.
Feasibility and Early Planning
We help clients test viability, assess budgets, identify risks, review assumptions, and plan procurement strategy.
Design and Pre-Construction
We support cost planning, value engineering, procurement route selection, tender preparation, and contract strategy.
Procurement and Contract Award
We assist with tender evaluation, contractor selection, negotiation support, contract risk review, and commercial governance.
Construction Delivery
We provide cost reporting, project controls, change management, payment assessment, contract administration, risk tracking, and claims prevention.
Handover and Closeout
We support final accounts, closeout documentation, claims resolution, lessons learned, and post-completion commercial review.
Recovery and Dispute Support
Where projects are delayed, over budget, disputed, or commercially distressed, we provide independent review, commercial strategy, claims support, and project recovery advice.
Our Expertise FAQ
COSOLCO’s main expertise is construction cost, commercial, contract, project controls, claims, risk, and infrastructure resilience advisory. We help clients control cost, manage contracts, reduce disputes, improve project visibility, and protect investment value.
Yes. COSOLCO provides construction cost consulting in Miami and Florida, including cost planning, budget validation, cost reporting, cost-to-complete analysis, value engineering, variation review, and final account support.
COSOLCO combines cost consultancy, commercial management, engineering understanding, legal insight, contract awareness, project controls, risk advisory, and infrastructure resilience expertise. This integrated approach allows clients to receive more strategic and commercially informed construction advice.
Yes. COSOLCO supports claims prevention, dispute avoidance, claims preparation, claims defence, entitlement analysis, quantum assessment, delay and disruption support, negotiation, mediation, adjudication, arbitration support, and litigation support where required.
Yes. COSOLCO has a specialist focus on infrastructure resilience and climate-adaptive construction strategy, particularly for Florida and hurricane-prone regions. This includes hurricane resilience, flood risk planning, resilient procurement, lifecycle cost considerations, and recovery planning.
COSOLCO’s expertise applies to real estate developments, luxury residential projects, mixed-use schemes, commercial buildings, hospitality projects, logistics and industrial facilities, infrastructure-related works, public sector projects, refurbishments, capital works, resilience upgrades, and distressed or challenged projects.
Speak With COSOLCO About Your Project
If your project requires senior-level construction cost advice, commercial management, contract support, project controls, claims analysis, risk advisory, or infrastructure resilience expertise, COSOLCO can help.
Contact COSOLCO Construction Solutions Consulting to discuss how our Miami-based construction consultancy expertise can support your next project.