The solid waste industry is continuing to focus on its core activities of hauling and placement of waste, as they downsize their internal staff and turn to the outsourcing of non-core activities. Stringent control over cash expenditure has moved the industry to a "just-in-time" mentality with regard to new cell development, landfill closure, and other capital spending activities. American Environmental Group, Ltd. has the ability to assist with the management, coordination, and certification of annual construction activities. Members of AEGL’s ownership team have been providing these services throughout the Midwest for the past 12 years.

Typical construction management services include:

• Coordination of the initial design activities and conducting constructability reviews
• Preparation of initial capital expenditure budgets for the client
• Prequalification of contractors
• Preparation of the bid documents necessary to solicit construction proposals
• Chairing pre-bid meetings
• Receipt and evaluation of proposals
• Preparation of contract documents
• Coordination of the various trades involved in completing a given project
• Civil contractor
• Surveying contractor
• Geosynthetics contractor
• Design engineering firm
• Construction quality control firm
• Procurement of other construction related materials
• Reviewing and approving monthly submittals and vendor invoices
• Leading periodic progress meetings
• Maintaining financial analysis records for the projects
• Maintaining construction progress schedules
• Ensuring that all certification documents are efficiently completed and submitted in a timely manner

These construction management services can be performed on either an "at-risk" or "consulting" basis. Under an at-risk agreement, AEGL contracts directly with the client to perform the work and manages the other trades through subcontract agreements, with contractual flow-down provisions. Under a consulting arrangement, the various subcontractors contract directly with the client, and AEGL performs the listed services with no direct contractual link to the other parties. Compensation for these services is typically accomplished by charging either a lump sum fee, a percent fee based on project revenue, or an hourly rate reimbursement.