Cumming Group of Columbia

Cumming Group of Columbia is a building consultant in Columbia, SC. The firm provides project management and cost consulting for large-scale, complex construction programs, working with owners across sectors including workplace, higher education, transportation and infrastructure, advanced technologies, sports and recreation, residential, highways, industrial and logistics, and rail and mass transit. Its project and cost management services are tailored to each client's needs, and its program and project managers have access to a full suite of in-house services. Cumming Group was founded in 1996 and has grown to more than 70 offices globally with over 3,000 team members. The firm's cost and commercial management practice includes more than 500 professional estimators, quantity surveyors, and MEP specialists, backed by a 30-year portfolio of completed assignments.

The firm's service lines include program and project management, cost and commercial management, planning and scheduling, and digital solutions. Its planning and scheduling specialists work in construction sequencing, risk analysis, and schedule optimization, with services spanning baseline development, risk mitigation, forensic analysis, and claims support. Cumming Group operates an integrated digital ecosystem it calls Actual Useful Things, combining applications for project management, cost and commercial management, scheduling and risk management, and data visualization. Procore is its standard platform, supported by an in-house team and integrations with ACC, Oracle Aconex, and Ingenious.build. Its cost management team uses 3D model-based estimating, AI-assisted takeoffs, and a construction cost database to produce first-principles estimates at every stage of design. Cumming Group is Great Place To Work Certified in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Ireland.

The office sits on Gervais Street in Columbia, a short walk from a post office and about a tenth of a mile from the Site of Wayside Hospital memorial, the Joseph D. Sapp Memorial Bridge, and Gadsden Street.

Cumming Group's depth in cost and commercial management, with hundreds of estimators and a three-decade portfolio behind it, is what a Columbia owner hiring a building consultant is drawing on.

Services:

• Cost + Commercial Management
• Dispute Resolution + Avoidance
• Energy + Sustainability Solutions
• Planning + Scheduling
• Program + Project Management