About BCG

What BCG Builds

Houses worth doing right, on difficult sites, with owners who have already decided to do the work properly. The work is hillside construction on steep, geotechnically demanding sites, ground-up custom homes where the site is the hard part, fire rebuilds and post-fire reconstruction including PGRAZ compliance and foundation certification, structural remediation and retaining walls where the scope starts with investigation rather than design, and major renovations where the concealed conditions are the real scope. Hillside and coastal Los Angeles, Malibu to Palos Verdes. Completed work is in the project gallery.

When Owners Bring Me In

Projects arrive at different stages. Some arrive as a problem with a clock on it, a hillside house with a foundation that has to be corrected, a fire lot that has to be certified before the rebuild can be designed, a slope that failed in the last storm, or a renovation that opened a wall and found the real scope. The first engagement is that problem, scoped and priced on its own. If the house needs more, the relationship grows into design coordination, permitting and construction under one agreement, with me on the job. Others bring me in earlier, before design begins or mid-design when the budget needs real trade pricing rather than cost per square foot. BCG's construction services are built around those entry points, focused engagements for a defined scope and full construction management from feasibility through delivery.

How I Work

I founded Benson Construction Group in 2015 because the standard delivery models in high-end residential construction set builders and owners against each other and leave the architect caught in the middle, and because the industry's answer, adding layers of oversight, spreads accountability so thin that nobody holds it. BCG runs on a simpler structure. The architect stays in the lead on design, and I take on execution risk directly as a Construction Manager at Risk, joining early so the budget is honest from the start, coordination happens before problems become expensive, and the drawings that get permitted describe a building that can actually be built. I am on every project, every day, in the field decisions, the subcontractor coordination, the cost management and the owner communication, with the project controls behind me so that nothing depends on memory alone.

Open books. My clients see the subcontractor bids, the executed contract values, material pricing, general conditions, contingency draws and the backup behind every change. Monthly reporting measures work completed against both the budget baseline and the schedule baseline, and between reports the owner has access to the full project record through Procore. Every change in scope is documented before work begins, priced in writing and approved in writing. Where the project runs under a Guaranteed Maximum Price, the ceiling is set before construction begins and savings below it are shared per the contract.

The architect keeps full design authority. My role is constructability, cost and field coordination, and I do not second-guess the architect's design. The responsibility matrix spells out who does what. When the roles are that clear, the design intent survives construction.

BCG Is a General Contractor

Benson Construction Group is a California licensed general contractor, CSLB License #1007735, bonded and insured, and BCG holds the prime contract. The distinction matters because construction manager is often read as consultant, and that is not the arrangement here. When I commit to a Guaranteed Maximum Price, the commitment is backed by the firm's license, its insurance and its financial exposure, and BCG bears the overrun risk above the ceiling. That is contracting, not advisory work.

BCG self-performs demolition, excavation, grading, carpentry and site work with a working foreman and crew, and manages every specialty trade a project needs, from structural concrete, shoring and steel to mechanical, electrical, plumbing, roofing, waterproofing, glazing, plaster, flooring, millwork, landscape, hardscape and pool. Every subcontractor is prequalified, competitively bid against at least three qualified bidders, scope-leveled for a true comparison, and managed under an executed contract with defined scope, schedule and quality requirements.