Owner's Agent · Mission-Critical Infrastructure · Program Leadership
Professional Engineer, PMP, and U.S. Navy Civil Engineer Corps veteran with 20+ years leading the planning, delivery, and integration of complex mission-critical infrastructure — including owner-side delivery of hyperscale data center campuses.
NAVFAC · U.S. Navy Civil Engineer Corps · Mission-Critical Delivery
I provide independent owner's agent representation services to projects of any size or scope for any duration as deemed necessary by the client.
Supported owner-side delivery of campus-scale hyperscale infrastructure involving major power systems, utilities, contractors, and mission-critical construction programs.
Supported hyperscale campus delivery through coordination of contractors, commissioning teams, operations groups, designers, engineers, and executive stakeholders.
Managed technically complex military construction and infrastructure programs.
I provide independent owner's agent representation services to projects of any size or scope for any duration as deemed necessary by the client.
Retained directly by the owner, I work only the owner's interest — not a contractor's, not a design firm's, not a program manager's already carrying a delivery incentive. The engagement is shaped by your project and your risk, whether that is one review, one phase, or standing representation from planning through commissioning and turnover.
Independent isn't adversarial. Because there is no scope waiting for me on the other side of a question, I can be straight with your contractor, your designer, and your utility — and they can take it. That is the difference between a representative who protects your interest and one who just slows the job down. Decisions get documented and issued in writing, most within two business days, because a decision you are sitting on becomes your contractor's schedule problem and then yours.
Independent, owner-aligned representation at the table: scope and constructability review, contractor and consultant accountability, technical decision support, and a single accountable voice reporting to you.
Capital program structure, phasing, and controls — budget and GMP review, contractor selection support, schedule governance, change management, and reporting an executive can act on.
Utility and substation coordination, medium-voltage distribution, service agreements, and the long-lead power path that decides whether a campus energizes on schedule.
Commissioning readiness, integrated systems testing, and the operational turnover discipline that gets a facility to Day-1 ready — and keeps it there.
Independent assessment of a distressed or drifting program: root-cause schedule review, recovery planning, mitigation, and honest reporting to ownership and lenders.
Alignment across ownership, operations, design, contractors, utilities, and authorities — with clear escalation and decision paths instead of unresolved risk.
Also available as a defined piece of work rather than a program: short-duration engagements at pre-negotiated rates, drawn down only as they are used — schedule and delay analysis, cost estimate and GMP review, REA development, negotiation support, and help assembling and staffing the team you actually need, including a full-time scheduler or controls lead. Plus federal RFP response development, cost and price volumes, and source selection support from 20 years administering contracts on the government side of the table, including NAVFAC and the U.S. Navy. See the full service list →
It starts with a free consultation. Tell me the issue and I will tell you what it needs, whether I am the right person for it, and what it would cost.
Either way, the work sits on the same ground: hyperscale data centers, AI infrastructure, mission-critical construction, and large capital programs.
Practical notes on owner-side delivery, data center construction, commissioning readiness, and what independent owner's agent representation actually looks like on a live program.
What independent representation means, the five points where an owner most often loses money without it, and how to size an engagement that fits the project instead of the other way around.
Read the note →Why a data center either opens on Day-1 or drifts: the decisions made in the first weeks of a program, and the operating discipline that carries them through turnover.
Read the note →Hiring for a construction leadership role, or considering independent owner's agent representation on a program? Send a message through the form — I respond quickly.
Hendrik Schoeman · PE · PMP · Fort Lauderdale, FL
