Cary Stump specializes in cost consulting for U.S. shopping center owners. After years of experience as a Chief Estimator for general contractors, Cary spent 13 years as Chief Estimator for Westfield and Macerich. Cary Stump Cost Consulting clients have been Macerich, Taubman, PREIT, Howard Hughes, and Kimco as well as smaller Owner/Developers of shopping centers.

Project responsibility has been for projects from $1 million to $500 million, both retail and mixed-use. Estimates include both hard costs and soft costs. Many estimates are from preliminary work letters, lease outline drawings, or sketches to help the Owner/Developer decide how to structure a deal. When projects proceed services include helping to keep the project on schedule and on budget during the design phase. Cary has created estimating software specific to retail and mixed-use that facilitates creating reliable estimates quickly.

History:

Post-graduation 1983, residential hardwood floor refinisher, then estimator at Richard Dallett, Inc, in Gladwyne, PA for almost a decade bidding residential hardwood flooring installation and refinishing services.

Rep for wholesale import/export fair-trade exotic hardwood flooring for Cinnaminson, NJ manufacturer 1993. Rep for Charles Taylor & Sons wholesale hardwood flooring division, Wilmington, DE.

Hired 2006 by Charles F. Beatty III of Beatty Drywall Systems, Inc., who taught me commercial estimating. Senior Estimator Burton Construction Co LLC in Hockessin, DE 2015 to 2023.

GC’s I’ve received project awards from and consequently PM’d to client turnover: BPGS (Buccini-Pollin Group); Pettinaro; DSM; Bancroft Construction; Gillis Gilkerson; GGA; Nason; Wohlsen; Miken; AMA; CSG; Reybold Group, many others. Awards $30k – $3.2m.

Scope typically DIV 05; 07; 09. CFMF; GWB; Sheathing; Air & Moisture Barriers; FRP, ACT, Blocking; Specialty & Custom Ceilings; Sealants, Rated Assemblies; Occasionally DEMO and Trusses. Little work in wood (except for blocking), all CFMF.

Projects include DuPont Country Club Golf Training Facility, Greenville, DE; Chase Bank 76ers Fieldhouse, Wilmington, DE; Sun Behavioral Health Facility, Georgetown, DE.

The Quoin Hotel, Wilmington, DE; Cooper at Market Residential High-Rise, Wilmington, DE. BPGS HQ Fit-out in the Historic Nemours Building, Wilmington, DE; Interior Clean Room & Vat Chemical Storage for WL Gore in Elkton, MD. Canaan Baptist Church, New Castle, DE.

Business Profile

Computerized Estimating Services (CES) is a privately held HUB certified woman-owned firm established in 1985. We have two locations one in Peoria, Illinois, and the other in Dallas, Texas. We perform commercial construction cost estimating, & scheduling services throughout the United States for Architects, Governmental Entities, Owners, Developers, Banks, Bonding Companies, Insurance Companies, and General Contractors.

CES operates their business with attention to detail and values teamwork on all projects.

Computerized Estimating Services (CES) employees at both the Texas and Illinois locations ready to be of service and meet all of your cost consulting needs.

Estimating Methodology

Computerized Estimating Services (CES) will meet with the Client and their design team to review the scope of work for each discipline.

CES will visit the proposed site after the design meeting and before beginning the Schematic Design Estimate (taking digital pictures). During this site visit, CES will make notes of any special needs such as power, utilities, grading, storm drainage, traffic flow, and signs of any existing above and below the grade structures that may need to be removed. These conditions will be researched with the design team and reflected in the estimate.

The estimates will be in the CSI format at each of the different design stages of the project using a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. The estimates include the summary sheet, exclusions, and clarifications, itemized list of general conditions, and the associated pricing sheets. These estimates will be emailed as a draft copy to the Client for review. Any mutually agreed changes to the estimate will be made as the final estimate for each design stage and re-emailed to the Client’s office for distribution.

During the course of the estimating procedures, any questions of the scope of work will be emailed to the Client’s office as the single source of responsibility. The responses to the questions from the design team will be incorporated into the estimate.

The pricing used in the estimate will reflect the local and current market conditions with a separate escalation factor if deemed necessary for the projected starting date. The pricing will not carry any hidden contingencies. The estimate will have a separately exposed line for design contingency on the summary sheet. The amount of the design contingency will reduce as the project progresses to completion. The summary sheets after the initial Schematic Design Estimate will have two additional separate columns entitled Previous Estimate and the second column entitled Difference so the changes in the estimate can be tracked.

CES will work together as a part of the design team to bring the project to successful completion.

A listing of specific projects will be submitted upon request or refer to our Website at www.cescost.net (Texas), www.ces-team.com (Illinois) for a partial list of projects. If CES can be of any help, please do not hesitate to call at 309-981-9285