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Five disciplines. One standard.

Hensel Associates provides project rescue, owner's representation, construction management, forensic investigation and expert-witness services, and development and master-planning consulting — always negotiated, never bid, under AIA Construction Manager as Advisor terms.

Last updated August 2026

01

Project Rescue & Distressed Recovery

When a contractor defaults, a structure fails, or a project stalls in litigation, the firm steps in as owner's representative — stabilizing the work, bringing in forensic teams, and carrying it to completion. Roughly half of all engagements are rescues.

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Scope of work
  • Takeover of failed or abandoned construction projects
  • Contractor-default response & completion management
  • Weekly code-analysis & quality-control reporting
  • Forensic engineering team coordination
  • Litigation-ready documentation for owners, lenders & sureties

02

Advisory & Owner's Representation

Independent oversight that protects the owner's interests from planning through completion — managing budgets, schedules, contractors, and quality on your behalf.

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Scope of work
  • Owner's representation for planning, development & construction
  • Construction management
  • Project development
  • On-site observation & reporting
  • Project accounting audits
  • Negotiated engagements under AIA Construction Manager as Advisor forms — maximum owner flexibility and financial control

03

Forensic & Expert Witness

Rigorous investigation and testimony for construction disputes, drawing on decades of engineering and construction-management experience.

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Scope of work
  • Forensic investigations
  • Code-review specialist services
  • Professional / expert-witness testimony
  • Litigation case assembly for attorneys — complete, logically tracked argument files
  • Arbitration, mediation & conflict resolution support

04

Development & Master Planning

Land acquisition, entitlement, and master planning for complex mixed-use, institutional, and commercial developments — including build-operate-transfer structures.

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Scope of work
  • Land acquisition & development
  • Land-use master planning — mixed-use, senior-care campuses, hospitals, clinics, educational, places of worship, commercial/retail, industrial
  • Build-operate-transfer (BOT) advisory

05

Specialty & Innovation

Patented water-treatment technology and unconventional engineering solutions for water, energy, and resource-recovery challenges.

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Scope of work
  • Dry oil-well to domestic-water-well conversions
  • Transportable water-treatment systems (U.S. Patent 8,808,537)
  • Solar & renewable energy
  • Tire & rubber recycling

What is an owner's representative?

An owner's representative protects your interests throughout a construction project — managing planning, budgets, schedules, contractors, and quality on your behalf. It provides independent oversight, reduces risk, and keeps complex, high-stakes projects on time and on budget.

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