Testimonials
“The Freedom Park design build team of Roche Constructors achieved a bonus for exceptional performance on the project. VCG’s Good to World Class approach was instrumental in our success. VCG brought us together when it appeared that the project was getting off to a rough start. After that, everyone kept their “kimonos open” and worked toward a common goal. The team agreed that this was our best experience.”
Patrick Batte
City of Las Vegas
“Of the various services that VCG provides, their monthly partnership surveys create self-awareness within the team which produces immediate results. If the schedule score drops a notch, the superintendent is motivated to bring it back up, if the RFI timeliness is slow, the designer wants to see the score increase and if the payments are delated, the owner will work toward expediting. The composite feedback assures that the scores reflect the consensus and not the “he doesn’t like me” feedback.”
Atul Raj
Pepper Lawson
“The methodology the Ventura Consulting Group uses is the most effective partnering process I have seen. It enables the project team to truly come together to work through problems, keeps them moving forward and draws out specific actions. They also keep us focused on keeping score and reviewing our performance as a ‘World Class’ team”.
Don Wright
Bechtel Corporation
“The Ventura Consulting Group’s “Good to World Class” partnering workshop is fast paced, project specific, highly interactive and produces team and individual actions that support world class project teamwork and results.”
Frank Lobedon
Principal Engineer, Port of Oakland
“Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego assembled an outstanding team to design and construct a critically needed new hospital tower with an unforgiving schedule and tight budget. While the assembled team was superb and continually achieved milestone after milestone, it became apparent to team executives that to rise from very good to world class; timely, frank and continuing partnering was needed to ensure that all parties maintained focus and contributed to the success of not only the project but to each team member. Ventura Consulting Group was brought onboard to lead the partnering effort and the results have been superb. The project continues to be a model for major healthcare construction in California and the owner, design team and construction team members have jelled into a world class project team that solves problems and produces results.”
Tim Jacoby
Facilities & Planning – Rady Children’s Hospital and Health Center
“The Ventura Consulting Group’s “Good to World Class” partnering process not only meaningfully defines world class but provides a partnership with the means to monitor and improve their performance and teamwork to world class levels over the project duration.”
David Niese
Area Manager, Flatiron Construction
“I have been involved in partnering since its inception in the late 1980′s. VCG’s “Good to World Class” approach represent a true “next step” in taking partnering to a new level of relevance and excellence.”
Michael Abeln
Chief Construction Division, Army COE
“The Ventura Consulting Group has the unique and uncanny ability to enable a project team to get to the critical issues in a way that facilitates communication to achieve world class project teamwork and results. They are tenacious and skillful at adapting their partnering process to current job needs and realities, but also in keeping the team focused on the ‘big’ picture’ goals.”
Ken Terpstra
Bay Bridge Project Manager, Caltrans
“Filanc firmly believes in the partnering process and partners on all projects no matter how large or small. We have worked with many of the leading partnering facilitators and can honestly say that Ventura Consulting Group is the best. Their style and project specific approach delivers, to all the stakeholders, on everything that partnering promises and then some.”
Mark Filanc
President & CEO – JR Filanc Construction
“Our people want to focus on developing relationships and important project specific issues right away. The Ventura Consulting Group moves right into a team approach to generating solutions to project problems and opportunities. Their follow up workshops keep everyone working together for project success.”
Chuck Avery
Vice President, McCarthy Brothers Construction
“Ventura Consulting Group’s Good to World Class partnering process is one of the best things we’ve done in making our projects successful.”
Josh Randall
Vice President, Tutor Saliba
“Ventura Consulting Group’s partnering approach has consistently produced world class teamwork and project results, enabling LAUSD to win Marvin Black Awards. VCG provides a uniquely effective approach to partnering for construction projects that has enabled us to forge strong bonds with and dependable communication between our contractors, subcontractors, designers, inspectors and project managers. I have relied on VCG to facilitate the partnering effort on some of the most complex and potentially difficult construction projects in our $12.6 billion construction program, and the results have consistently been phenomenally successful projects completed on time, with minimal change orders, and no major claims. I am convinced that these projects would not have been executed as smoothly and trouble-free were it not for the intensely professional methodology VCG brought to our teams.”
Fred Smith
Acting Deputy Chief Facilities for New Construction, LA Unified School District
“The Ventura Consulting Group has consistently assisted us to develop high performance teams on our design-build projects. These have produced true, win-win benefits for both our organization and our client’s.”
Wayne Lindholm
Vice President, Hensel Phelps Construction
