Davor Engel

I am a senior project manager for Colliers’ Project Management group. In this role, I lead projects by developing an understanding of clients’ needs. Additionally, I am responsible for master budgets, schedules, consultant contracts as well as client and tenant communication. 

With 35 years in architecture, design, construction and project management, my experience is varied and extensive. My background enables a unique understanding of all aspects of clients’ project needs from programming to final construction administration. My projects include corporate offices, industrial properties, new construction, limited remodeling and adaptive re-use. I have both designed and managed the construction process of many tenant, capital and spec projects.

During my 35-year career after graduation from University of Illinois’ College of Architecture, he has worked for companies such as Transwestern and Perkins & Will. I am a licensed architect and have maintained my own architecture and design-build practice as a licensed general contractor and developer.

• Through keen early insight and creative contractor negotiation, I was key to the facilitation of Hartford Insurance’s Chicago office buildout of 30,000 square feet. I completed the high-level project in only nine weeks, which saved $1M in holdover occupancy costs. The total project’s cost was $3.5M. 
• I was able to place tech incubator Salt Flats and Fast Radius’ advanced manufacturing facility into a 50,000-square-foot, multi-phase adaptive re-use project in Chicago’s Fulton Market neighborhood.

Services

Project Management