WMATA Headquarters Consolidation Program

WMATA’s Headquarters Consolidation Program is a multi‑phase, multi‑million‑dollar initiative to reduce its office footprint from 10 buildings to four, delivering new headquarters and consolidated offices through coordinated construction and technical program management. The WMATA Office Consolidation Project received the Construction Management Association of America’s (CMAA) 2023 Project Achievement Award, with individual buildings receiving additional recognition.

TCT provided extensive cost estimating, scheduling, and project controls services as part of an IDIQ Program Management contract for the office consolidation program.TCT provided extensive cost estimating, scheduling, and project controls services as part of an IDIQ Program Management contract for the office consolidation program.

Scope of work for this large-scale initiative included:

• Hard and Soft Cost Budgets
• Design Reviews
• Preparation of Design to Costs
• Value Engineering
• Review and Analysis of Fee Development Agreements
• Review and Analysis of GMP Packages
• Negotiation of Final GMPs
• Detailed reviews of Contractor baseline schedules and schedule updates
• Preparation of schedule reports
• Review of Time Impact Analyses and prepare report
• Review of Claim Cost Impacts and Negotiations
• Review of project acceleration costs
• Establishment of standardized Change Order review process
• Establishment of standardized ATP (Authorization to Proceed) review process
• Establishment of Cost Reporting system

In addition, sustainability was a central tenet to the renovations and consolidation. The DC Headquarters building achieved LEED Gold certification, targeting Platinum through energy credits.