Construction consultant Cumming opens office in Durham

The Durham office, located at the Venable Center in Durham, will be led by Sandy Gray, a Cumming vice president recently promoted to oversee all of the company’s East Coast efforts. He’ll be relocating from the company’s Washington, D.C. office.

The firm has also hired for the Durham office Frank Pinto, the former director of project development services at Forrester Construction Co. in Washington, D.C.

In the world of construction, Cumming is known as a construction management-for-fee firm, hired to represent a building owner directly or working with the project team alongside the general contractor, engineers and architects to manage a project’s budget, scope and schedule.

In 2013, San Diego-based Cumming ranked among the 40 largest CM-for-fee firms in the U.S., according to Engineering News-Record, with $51.2 million in revenues. It has about 250 employees internationally and 20 office locations.

Among its projects already underway In the Triangle, Cumming is working with the team planning Rex Hospital’s $220 million heart tower project in Raleigh and the renovations to UNC-Chapel Hill’s development office at 208 W. Franklin Street in Chapel Hill.

Amanda Jones Hoyle covers commercial and residential real estate. Follow her on Twitter @TBJrealestate

Sandy Gray, Cumming Vice President, is relocating from Washington D.C. to Durham to help establish the new Triangle office for the Cumming construction management firm.