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Owner's representative · Hanoi · Da Nang · Ho Chi Minh City · Projects worldwide

The owner's representative in your construction project.

We control cost, contract and quantities on your behalf — from the investment decision through to signing the final account.

Free review of one line item See our services
Residential · villas
COMMITMENT 01 We do not accept instructions from contractors. Nor do we take on projects where a related company is building or bidding, in any country. If a conflict emerges after signing, we hand the contract back.
COMMITMENT 02 We do not sign acceptance certificates. That is precisely why we can protect you. We select and manage the site supervision firm on your behalf instead.
COMMITMENT 03 We reply within 15 minutes. Call, message us on Zalo, or send a request through this site — you hear back within 15 minutes.
COMMITMENT 04 Complete information, immediate proposal. No stalling. As soon as we have the project information we need, we issue a proposal and fee quotation setting out scope, deliverables and dates.
66%
of construction disputes are about payment — mostly caused by documentation defects, which are fixable at the contract stage.
Source: VIAC
20 – 25%
of package value sits in the tail that most often gets stuck at final account. On a VND 20 billion project that is VND 4–5 billion held back.
Source: VACC, August 2022
5 – 15%
of total investment can be cut through design review and value engineering, without reducing functionality.
CM Projects working target
Nine services · three lines

Wherever your project stands, engage the part you need.

Line one serves a project already under way. Line two is specialist advice you can buy on its own. Line three addresses buildings already in use — useful even when you have no project on the table.

LINE ONE · CONSTRUCTION PROJECT MANAGEMENT — FULL LIFECYCLE
OR-01
Construction project management (full lifecycle)
Eight work packages under one contract, one point of contact, one fee. Applies to both new build and refurbishment.
Runs with the project
OR-01 (c)
Refurbishment — full package
The whole lifecycle compressed into 6–12 weeks: establish the baseline condition, fix scope and finish standards, prepare the budget and bill of quantities, tender and select, control construction against milestones, close out the final account. Quantity take-off and BOQ are included.
6 – 12 weeks
OR-01.1
Total investment cost check
Three scenarios, broken down by element, published cost indices benchmarked against our real unit-rate library, plus the list of costs owners most often forget.
5 – 7 days
OR-01.2
Project feasibility review
Planning constraints and land-use indices, functional feasibility, permitting map and timeline, fire-safety and environmental risk at concept level, budget and programme framework.
10 – 15 days
OR-01.3
Design review & value engineering
Architecture, structure and MEP overlaid on a single plan to find the clashes that generate extra quantities — each with a costed alternative showing the money saved.
7 – 12 days
OR-01.4
Tender advisory & contractor selection
Packaging strategy, tender documents and evaluation criteria, shortlisting, commercial and technical comparison, negotiation support, award recommendation. The decision and the signature always remain with the owner.
4 – 8 weeks · short form 1 – 2 weeks
OR-01.5
Construction contract review & drafting before signature
At least seven clause groups examined: payment terms and milestones, advance payment and bonds, retention, price adjustment, variation mechanism, grounds and procedure for extension of time, and liquidated damages. Bilingual FIDIC-based versions available in Vietnamese–English or Vietnamese–Chinese.
5 – 10 days
OR-01.6
Cost & quantity control, A–B final account
Certify quantities each payment cycle, screen variations for a properly signed instruction, rebut contractor claims, issue a monthly payment recommendation. At close-out: reconcile against as-built drawings and inspection records, find mis-applied rates and double counting, produce the deduction schedule and defend it in reconciliation meetings.
Throughout construction
OR-01.6
A–B final account review (available separately)
The last independent reconciliation before you sign. Every line of the deduction schedule cites a drawing number, a gridline and an inspection record.
10 – 20 days
OR-01.7
Project delivery management
Our people on site, running the job for you: chairing coordination meetings, directing main contractor and subcontractors, managing the programme along the critical path, selecting and supervising the site supervision firm on your behalf, and keeping the correspondence record that becomes evidence if a dispute follows.
Monthly fee, throughout construction
OR-01.8
Completion handover & defects liability management
Check the completion dossier for completeness and compliance, verify MEP commissioning through all three stages, produce a snag list with photographs and gridline references, hand over the as-built records and O&M manuals.
Handover and defects period
LINE TWO · SPECIALIST ADVICE — AVAILABLE SEPARATELY
OR-02
Design appraisal
Confirms the design meets safety and code requirements. The report forms part of the submission dossier and the signatory carries legal responsibility. Outside Vietnam we take this on only in association with a locally licensed firm.
By building class
OR-03
Project risk analysis
A risk register across the six professional axes — programme, cost, quality, safety, cash flow and contract risk — quantified as probability times cost, giving confidence ranges for total investment and completion date rather than a single figure.
10 – 20 days
OR-04
Quantity surveying & BOQ preparation
Independent take-off, a tender-ready bill of quantities with technical requirements against each item, three-level budget, provisional sums ring-fenced, and the items most exposed to overstatement at payment flagged in advance.
7 – 20 days
LINE THREE · EXISTING BUILDINGS — NO CURRENT PROJECT REQUIRED
OR-05
Condition survey & assessment (two levels)
Level one establishes the baseline before refurbishment. Level two is technical due diligence for a transaction — acquisition, contribution in kind, mortgage, or a lender assessing security.
5 – 30 days
OR-06
Structural safety assessment
Defect survey located by gridline and level, testing commissioned from an accredited laboratory, load-capacity verification against actual material strength and actual loading, and a costed strengthening scheme.
15 – 30 days
OR-07
Electrical safety assessment
Variance against as-built drawings, actual load and phase balance, thermal imaging of switchboards and terminations, earthing and insulation resistance testing, and a defect schedule ranked by fire risk.
7 – 15 days
OR-08
Fire safety assessment
Current condition compared item by item against the approved fire-safety design, producing a deviation schedule with remediation costs and priority. Outside Vietnam, assessed against local codes.
7 – 15 days
OR-09
Operating cost review
Inventory of live O&M contracts, actual service delivered against what was contracted, rates benchmarked against the market, and the unfavourable clauses — automatic renewal, uncapped escalation — brought to the surface.
10 – 15 days
The Vietnamese edition is the governing legal text. This English page is a reference translation; where the two differ, the Vietnamese edition prevails.
Coverage

All three regions of Vietnam — and projects abroad.

Wherever your site is, our people are already nearby. An office is the ability to be on site, not an address on paper. That is exactly what owners worry about when they engage a consultant based somewhere else.

NORTHERN VIETNAM

Hanoi

30N7B Khu đô thị Trung Hòa Nhân Chính, Phường Yên Hòa, TP Hà Nội

Bac Ninh · Hung Yen · Hai Phong · Vinh Phuc · Thai Nguyen
CENTRAL VIETNAM

Da Nang office

74 Bạch Đằng, quận Hải Châu, TP Đà Nẵng

Thua Thien Hue · Quang Nam · Quang Ngai · Khanh Hoa
SOUTHERN VIETNAM

Ho Chi Minh City office

69 Hồ Văn Huê, Phường Đức Nhuận, TP Hồ Chí Minh

Binh Duong · Dong Nai · Long An · Ba Ria–Vung Tau
We have no office outside Vietnam. Travel and accommodation are billed separately against a budget you approve in advance, never folded into the consultancy fee. Legal basis, cost norms and contract currency change with the country the works are in — all of which we establish before quoting.
How we work

Five steps from first contact to final report.

01ScreeningReply within 15 minutes. We confirm that you are the owner, establish the funding source, and check for conflict with any contractor we are connected to.
02DiagnosisA 30–60 minute first conversation, free of charge, plus a free review of one line item from the documents you already hold.
03ProposalComplete information, immediate proposal. Scope, deliverables, dates and what is excluded — written down before anything is signed.
04DeliveryAn engineer checks every major item and owns the conclusion. If we miss a deadline through our own fault, the fee drops by 10%.
05HandoverEvery report ends with a single recommendation: the one thing you should do next.
Vietnamese legal basis

Vietnam's construction legislation was replaced in full on 1 July 2026.

Construction Law 135/2025/QH15 supersedes the 2014 and 2020 laws, bringing with it Decrees 206–217/2026 and Circulars 33–42/2026. Most contracts and tender documents in circulation still cite instruments that have been repealed — and one wrong citation is enough for the other side to overturn a clause in a dispute.

Repealed instrumentReplaced byWhat it governs
Construction Law 50/2014 · 62/2020Construction Law 135/2025/QH15The entire framework governing construction activity
Decree 06/2021Decree 207/2026Quality management, inspection and acceptance, defects liability, site safety
Decree 37/2015 · 50/2021Decree 210/2026Construction contracts — advance payment capped at 30% (Art. 12), payment within 14 working days of receiving a compliant application (Art. 28), and a new Dispute Adjudication Board
Former cost and norm frameworkDecree 206/2026 · Circulars 36/2026 and 38/2026Cost management and the new norm set — estimating software that has not been updated produces wrong prices
Request a proposal

A few questions before we call you back.

We ask more than most, because there are projects we are obliged to decline. Establishing that early saves both sides time.

Free review of one line item

Send us any single item from a final account or payment application awaiting your approval. We cross-check it and respond within three working days. If we find nothing, you pay nothing.

  • First diagnostic conversation, 30–60 minutes, free of charge
  • Project information stays confidential; we will sign an NDA before any exchange if you prefer
  • Reply within 15 minutes — including when the answer is that we must decline the project
  • Proposal and fee quotation issued immediately once we have the information we need from you
To speak to us now: 0912 574 905 — the same number on Zalo — or info@cmprojects.com.vn
We act for owners only. CM Projects does not accept instructions from contractors in any form. It is a commitment we write into every contract, and it is the reason owners can rely on our conclusions. We hope you understand.
We take private-capital projects only. Projects funded by the state budget, by public investment, by the state's share in a PPP, by ODA, or by a multilateral financial institution fall outside our scope — in Vietnam and everywhere else.
Your request goes to info@cmprojects.com.vn. Project information is treated as confidential.
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