You probably know some of these stories: builders who stop showing up, completion deadlines that keep getting pushed back, defects that never get fixed, design changes forced by unexpected issues during construction, materials that fail to arrive, or extra costs that significantly increase the original budget.
   No renovation runs like Swiss clockwork — mine don’t either. A renovation is a complex handcrafted process involving workers from different trades, each usually focused on their own tasks. Good project management means planning, coordinating, and supervising effectively to achieve the quality, timing, and budget goals agreed upon with the client. Without proper planning and management, a renovation will undoubtedly become lengthy and expensive. And budgets are never unlimited; quite the opposite — for most of us, they are the main constraint.