RETAIL Some of the major challenges affecting retailers today include the need to balance brand-recognition and an exciting ambience for customers with a flexible, cost-effective, easily maintainable space, as well as expediting construction in a timely manner to meet seasonal buying cycles. VVA has worked with the foremost retail consulting experts in the country, including architects, interior designers, and merchandisers to accelerate projects from planning through construction phase. Barneys New York 45,000 square foot retail project, at Boston’s Copley Plaza. The project is the build-out of Barneys New York flagship Boston, MA store and is a complex project due to issues with the Big Dig still being completed beneath and in the vicinity of Copley Plaza. VVA’s scope of services include: Scheduling, Design management, Value engineering, Constructability review, Construction administration, Cost Control and Reporting, Systems/Technology Integration, Move-in and Post occupancy phase. Tufenkian Carpet 6,500 square foot retail project at 919 Third Avenue, New York, NY. The project consisted of the build-out of a showroom, pantry and office space where VVA employed value engineering and anticipated cost reporting in order to bring the costs down by $500,000. VVA’s scope of services included: Consultant selection, Cost Estimating, Scheduling, Design management, Value engineering, Contract negotiation, Constructability review, Construction administration, Cost Control and Reporting, Move-In and Post Occupancy phase.