Rick Stanza
Construction Feasibility Wizard
- Role
- Preconstruction Manager at Sachse Construction
- Location
- Detroit, MI, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Rick Stanza
Proven team leader with over 30 years of industry experience in acquisition, preconstruction, and construction phases of the development cycle. Assumes lead positions in various construction projects ranging from to in size. Areas include adaptive reuse and ground-up projects in luxury multi and single-family residential, healthcare, hospitality, retail, and assembly sectors. Effective at assessing problematic business and project concerns, identifying key issues, and developing and implementing strategic and cost-effective solutions. Able to promote business, increase brand awareness, and expand underwriting, design and construction services for mid to large scale development and construction projects. Visionary actively searching throughout emerging urban submarkets for development opportunities while spearheading activity related to feasibility studies, land ownership, zoning and incentive research, market data gathering, potential partnerships, tenant negotiating, fundraising, sources and uses, schematic design, and pro-forma data assurance. Supports underwriting with substantiated design and construction costs, methods, and timing. Selects and collaborates with architects and planners in order to formulate schematic massing studies, unit mix, and gross area studies while conveying design thinking and logic artistically.Pragmatist providing substantiated project costs while maintaining enthusiasm for the end result. Works with vendors to provide value engineered design and engineering solutions in order to create realistic construction budgets and schedules. Direct day to day involvement during the construction phase from beginning to closeout. Able to utilize AutoCad, Revit, Sketchup, 3d Studio Max, Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, Bluebeam, Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and Project.
Experience
Preconstruction Manager
Dec 2025 — Present · Detroit, MI, US
Preconstruction Manager providing client facing services during the preconstruction phase.
Education
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Science (BS), Construction Engineering
1997 — 1998
Harrington College of Design
Master of Arts (MA), Interior Design
2012 — 2016
Skills
- 3d Studio Max
- Microsoft Office
- Sales
- Microsoft Project
- Budget Monitoring
- Value Engineering
- Construction Management
- Microsoft Excel
- Financial Risk
- Microsoft Word
- Contract Negotiation
- Autocad
- Illustrator
- Construction Drawings
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