Platinum Builders LLC

Platinum Builders is a construction management firm in Newton Upper Falls — the outfit that runs the job and the trades rather than swinging the hammers itself. Michael Moore founded it and still leads it, and the company says it has more than 25 years of work alongside owners, architects, engineers and subcontractors. The work it describes is commercial and residential construction management, program management and consulting, and real estate development. Its own site puts repeat clients at about 90 percent — the company's figure, not an audited one, though repeat business is the currency in this corner of the trade. On Google it holds a 5-star average from two ratings. One thing to settle on the first call: the state registry shows the company's Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration, #111646, as expired. On a residential project, ask whether it has been renewed, and who will carry the registration for your job — the manager or the general contractor they bring in. For an owner planning a build who wants someone to run the project rather than perform it, this is that kind of firm. Confirm the registration status, get the management fee and scope in writing, and ask for two or three recent owners whose projects Moore's team ran.