Lender Construction Risk & Workout

Independent construction analysis for distressed, underperforming, or disputed projects.

GCM Group helps lenders, servicers, investors, counsel, and workout teams understand the construction realities behind financial exposure. We connect project records, cost data, schedule performance, contracts, and field conditions so stakeholders can evaluate options with a clearer view of risk.

Lender Distressed Project Assessment

A targeted initial review of project status, remaining scope, contractor performance, budget and committed cost, unresolved changes, payment and lien issues, schedule condition, document quality, and the immediate threats to completion and collateral value. The assessment identifies key risks, information gaps, likely cost and schedule exposure, and recommended next steps.

Cost-to-Complete & Budget Review

Independent evaluation of committed and forecast cost, remaining construction, contingency, disputed scope, change orders, vendor and subcontractor exposure, and the assumptions supporting the completion budget.

Schedule, Critical Path & Recovery Analysis

Assessment of delay, critical and near-critical work, milestone risk, schedule credibility, remaining duration, recovery assumptions, and the relationship between time impacts and projected cost.

Draw, Change-Order & Project-Record Analysis

Review of draw support, payment applications, change-order logs, owner and contractor records, progress reporting, and contemporaneous correspondence when a distressed or disputed project requires analysis beyond ordinary monitoring.

Not Routine Draw Inspection

GCM Group does not provide commodity construction draw inspections or routine progress monitoring. Our lender work is focused on distressed, disputed, underperforming, or otherwise high-risk projects requiring deeper construction, cost, schedule, and record analysis.

Workout, Claim & Dispute Support

Decision support for restructuring, funding strategy, project stabilization, completion planning, negotiations, mediation, arbitration, or litigation when construction issues become part of the workout.

Specialized Technical Support

Cost estimating, cost-to-complete analysis, schedule analysis, claims evaluation, and damages quantification are core GCM capabilities. When an engagement requires architectural, engineering, code, structural, or another specialized discipline, qualified professionals can be integrated into the team. GCM Group does not provide architecture or engineering design services.

Construction Clarity for Capital Decisions

Our role is to give the financial team an independent, construction-grounded view of the project—what is known, what remains uncertain, what it is likely to cost, how long it may take, and where the greatest risks sit.