Senior Living & Post-Acute Care

Because the level of care a building is licensed for determines which construction, fire protection, and life-safety requirements apply. A building designed around one category can be expensive or impossible to convert to another. Settling the intended license — and any plan to change it later — before design is one of the most consequential early decisions.

Around census, resident safety, and the operator's capacity to manage moves — not only around construction efficiency. Each phase takes rooms out of service, may require relocating residents, and changes routes and noise levels for everyone else. A phasing plan that the operator has not agreed to is not yet a plan.

Represents the owner across the operator, design team, builder, and approving agencies, and gives investors and lenders an independent view of cost and schedule. The attention goes to licensure fit, the approval path, phasing, and whether the opening date in the pro forma can be met. It does not direct construction means, methods, sequences, or site safety.

Before capital is committed to a development, an acquisition with a renovation plan, or a repositioning. The review tests whether the program, licensure category, schedule, and budget support the financial model while the owner still has room to change them.