Professional Profile

Fred B. Lott
Construction Management Executive
Construction Manager Registered Architect Program Manager Owners Representative
917-371-5149
5 Long Lots Lane, Westport, CT 06880
fredlott[at]optonline.net

Registrations and Certifications Professional Experience Education and Training
Registered Architect: New York, Construction Management - 18 yrs Bachelor of Architecture
Connecticut, Maryland, Maine, Florida, Registered Architect - 20 yrs Advanced Studies: Large Scale
Louisiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Michigan, Program Management -15 yrs Integrated Project Management;
and Indiana Estimating - 20 years Psychology; Landscape Architecture;
NCARB Certificate Holder Facilities Interface - 15 years Infrastructure Development;
Certifications: Certification for Civil Engineering; Systems
Cross-Functional Process Teams; Engineering; Construction Law
Maximum Security Design; - Contracts, Claims, Disputes,
ICBO Certification - Allowable Areas & Heights and Resolution; and Total
(Complex) and Fire-resistive Construction and Quality Management
Fire Protection; Mixed Occupancies, and
Exiting; Multi-Protection Design; OSHA - 10 Hr

Professional Excellence Summary
Mr. Lott consistently provides skillful leadership for design, planning, construction execution, and construction
management initiatives. Personal presentation is business personable.
Several Skill Sets have proven critical for his proven leadership for successful projects:
Consistently provides resolution of project complexities in a judicious manner, such that the respective
interests of the individual stakeholders remain protected.
Critical thinking and an inborn ability to provide adept resolution of difficult and multi-part issues has
marginalized confrontation and stalled project execution activities. This capability has mitigated or eliminated
posturing for construction claims.
Easily collaborates with key members of finance to provide corresponding construction detail to protect
against unanticipated risk.
Continually provides motivational leadership and commitment towards teamwork methodology.
Demonstrates exceptional organizational skills and consistently surpasses parameters set for deliverables.
Has exceptionally strong communication skills; oral and written. Personal presence is fully convincing.
Significant Accomplishments for past projects set the pace for new endeavors:
Delivered persuasive presentations during critical community outreach to achieved positive results for
contested permits, variances, and liquor licenses. These efforts incorporated affirmative local and national
media relations and coverage.
Achieved bottom line objectives for new-build and adaptive reuse projects by providing on-time delivery of
assigned projects; providing excellence in presentation and best dollar value investment.
Took charge of troubled projects and actively managed re-scoping, budget reconciliation, accumulated cost
reports, and schedule recovery to bring projects to completion on time and within set budget parameters.
Recaptured as much as 120 days of lost schedule and successfully negotiated proposed change order
reductions by amounts exceeding $635,000 for a single project.

Market sector experience includes all levels of Luxury Hotels, Healthcare Facilities, Government, Office Buildings and Corporate Build-Out, Entertainment Facilities, Condominiums, Restaurants & Food Service, Retail, Multi-Family Housing, Aviation Maintenance Facilities, Civil Engineering, Systems Design & Engineering, Seismic Retrofit, Sports, Historic Rehabilitation, Mediation, Environmental Abatement and Remediation, Correctional Facilities, Commissioning, and Expert Testimony. Individual project scale has exceeded $1 billion dollars.

Project execution has benefited from professional experience and expertise with due diligence evaluations; public hearings; testimony relative to zoning interpretations, variances, complex uses and air rights; preparation of feasibility studies; evaluations of alternative building systems; life-cycle costing; and bid solicitations. Management oversight has included training, mentoring, and managing direct reporting staffs of up to 70 individuals, composite project execution staffs up to 1,500 individuals, and direct interface with design professionals (national & international) and all levels of government agencies.

Professional Profile - 2
Fred B. Lott

Professional Practice Summary
New York Hotel Management January 2009 through July 2010
New York, New York; $115.6 Million
Senior Construction Manager / Owners Representative for charged with buyout of owner-supplied equipment, systems, and furniture; analyzing and adjusting schedule and cost controls provided by general contractor, comprehensive compliance and quality control inspections; fiduciary reviews; legal summaries; and contractor and architect dispute resolutions; 32-story new construction, full service, extended stay hotel; 310 suites/rooms, with bar and greenhouse restaurant.

First time developer in New York City; encumbered severely by the choice to utilize a non-union contractor and contracts / work agreements without the benefit of traditional contract language and protective clauses. Capitalized on my training and experience as a construction manager and registered architect, well versed in the nuances of construction within New York City and the standards enforced by the NYC Department of Buildings. Active project management included routine responsibilities of team-building, interface with design professionals, bid leveling, cost controls, technical reviews, quality control, estimating, design detail refinement, change order evaluation and negotiations, and master scheduling reconciliation.
32-story, new construction; full service hotel, 310 suites/rooms, with bar & restaurant; New York, NY

Broad Construction November 2007 to June 2009
New York, New York; $276 Million
Director of Construction / Project Executive / Construction Manager / Owners Representative
Took charge of a troubled project and actively managed re-scoping, budget reconciliation, accumulated cost reports, schedule recovery, and quality control inspections. Complexity of the project included coordinated interface with the Office of the Mayor, NYPD, NYFD, Lower Manhattan Command Center, Homeland Security, Department of Buildings, and Department of Transportation. Management included coordination and mentoring of design professionals, budgeting, implementation of alternative building systems, buyout of owner- supplied equipment and fixtures, and change order negotiations. Active interface with primary lenders, mezzanine lenders, and oversights for the lenders was a significant element of work for these projects. The project execution was complicated with the difficulties of a stalled economy coupled with the owner changing architects and construction managers multiple times and failure of the primary lender; a foreign national bank.
33- story, new / retrofit; mixed-use, luxury condominiums, hotel, restaurant & fitness center; New York, NY

Builders Group / Homes for America May 2003 to November 2007
New York, New York; $426Million
Director of Construction / Project Executive / Owners Representative for interests within the states of New York and Connecticut. Active project management included property evaluations, programming, estimating, budgeting, financial institution interface, structural evaluation, environmental remediation, construction management, and fit-out of FF&E and OSE. This work included interface with State and local agencies in the States of Connecticut and New York. The specialty food service facilities aspect of the work included collaboration with renowned chefs for gourmet, celebrity, and Provencal restaurants.
Remodel of National Broadcasting Corporate offices, NYC 6 Gourmet / Celebrity Restaurants within NYC
Remodel of National Insurance Co., Office Suites, NYC Corporate Headquarters & Trading Floor, NYC
Historic Rehab of Firearms Manufacturing [at] Hartford, CT 6-Story Office Building [at] Yonkers, NY

Accor, SA; Accor Business & Leisure Hotels October 1999 to May 2003
Paris, France and New York, New York; $650Million
Director of Construction / Project Manager / Construction Manager / Owners Representative for multiple, international luxury hotel projects within North America. Project execution included management and interface of the owners of the foreign parent company with the disciplines of Architecture, Construction Management, Engineering, Interior Design, Budgeting & Finance, and Systems Technology, as practiced in the United States. Financial responsibility included direct collaboration with the founding partners and senior management in Paris, France.

This position & the hotel expansion within the United States by a French company ceased following the events of 9/11.
Sofitel New York; Full Service Hotel, 398 rooms/suites; 30-story new construction
Sofitel Philadelphia; Full Service Hotel, 300 rooms/suites; 14-story renovation retrofit and new construction
Sofitel Washington D.C.; Full Service Hotel, 237 rooms; 12-story renovation
Sofitel Chicago Water Tower; Full Service Hotel, 415 rooms / suites; 33-story new construction

Bovis Construction Corporation April 1994 to October 1999
Indianapolis, Indiana & San Francisco, California; $1Billion, $206Million
Program Manager / Project Manager for PM/CM projects, acting as an agent for the Federal General Services Administration and as Owners Representative / Project Manager for Marriott International. Routine activities included cost forecasting, estimating, negotiated pricing, bid-packaging, design and construction management, change order processing and negotiations, scheduling, and acting as fiduciary representative for the Owner. Responsibilities also included evaluation of alternative building materials and systems, value engineering, quality assurance of work in place, and public / community relations.
U.S. Courthouse & Federal Building [at] Sacramento, CA; General Services Administration; Federal Building; Courts and General Offices; 30-
story, 740,230 sq. ft. Construction: Steel / Moment Resisting Frames with Limestone & Granite Cladding & Glass Curtain Wall.
Courtyards by Marriott / 2 Projects [at] Emeryville & Oakland, CA; Full Service, Mid-Luxury Hotels, 295 rooms & 156 rooms; Construction
Types: Post-tensioned, concrete frame on pilings with 4-pipe HVAC system and wood frame structure on grid foundation with drilled piers.
United Airlines Maintenance Center [at] Indianapolis, IN; United Airlines & Indianapolis Airport Authority; 2.6 million sq. ft.; Maintenance Center
Servicing all Fleet Aircraft Hangars, Central Plant Facilities, Commons, Facilities; Six 2-bay Aircraft Hangars.