Active: opening summer 2027

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CAPITAL CAMPAIGN: $61.3 Million

SITE: 380 Acres (43-Acre Active Build Zone)

GENERAL CONTRACTORS: 4 Concurrent GCs

ROLE: Owner's Representative

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The Challenge:

Camp For All is a nationally recognized nonprofit that has served more than 200,000 children and adults with challenging illnesses, disabilities, and special needs since 1998. To meet growing demand, the organization is building a second fully barrier-free campus on nearly 380 acres in Chappell Hill: a small town from the ground up. The scope spans heavy civil infrastructure, specialized aquatic and medical facilities, residential cabins, and recreational venues, all held to ADA standards well beyond minimum code.​

 

Four General Contractors are building simultaneously across a 43-acre active build zone, each responsible for a different part of the campus. That structure multiplies the Owner's risk: scope gaps between contracts, competing schedules, site logistics conflicts, and no single GC accountable for the whole. Camp For All needed an experienced Owner's Representative to coordinate across all four and protect the Project's budget, schedule, and quality.

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​STEADFAST's Role:

My day-to-day focus is managing the boundaries between the four contractors' scopes so nothing falls through the gaps. I review every pay application line by line against field progress and the schedule of values, and I track all four schedules for conflicts before they become delays.​

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In the field, I work with the design team and the GCs to catch quality issues before they are embedded in the work, from ADA-compliant paving slopes to cast-in-place concrete finishes. On a barrier-free campus, accessibility is not a checkbox; it is the entire design intent, and the field execution has to match. Every step of the way, I give the Owner clear, comprehensive Project reporting on budget, schedule, and progress, so leadership can stay focused on mission rather than managing construction.

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WHAT THE OWNER SAYS:

"Chuck's construction background is rooted in field work... This leads him to focus on and question the smallest details. On our Project, this has resulted in higher quality work such as cast-in-place concrete finish in the Amphitheater, slopes of paving remaining within ADA standards (important in a barrier-free camp!), and suggestions for improving the surface of the concrete flooring in the Main Building.

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Essentially Camp For All is building a small town, which means that the Project is very complex. Having an Owner's Representative, in this case STEADFAST, has proven to be vital in regards to attention to detail, budget oversight, providing an experienced understanding of construction, and advocating for our organization at all times with each construction company we are working with.

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It is essential for the success of your Project that you have an Owner's Rep. And you will regret hiring anyone else but Chuck Nelson, STEADFAST."

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— Pat Prior Sorrells, President and CEO, Camp For All