The Sierra West Consulting Group,Inc- (SWG) is known within the construction industry as “the resource” for providing accurate and up to date construction costs. SWG also provides associate editors for the construction industry’s publication Current Construction Costs. This resource document has been a leading industry guide. Today’s highly competitive construction environment places more emphasis on maximizing the use of available capital. Planning, design and construction of anticipated facility improvements is an extremely complex process and a significant investment of those limited resources. Successful building requires the cost of the project to be well planned and controlled to achieve the maximum value for the owner. We recognize that accurate cost control, in its various forms, is one of the major challenges that any project faces. Maximum monetary benefit to the client can be assured by the appropriate use of cost management. Sierra West consulting Group,Inc is a multi-disciplined firm of construction professionals providing independent, unbiased guidance on a variety of construction issues in both public and private sector projects throughout the Pacific Northwest.