Owner's representative for industrial and logistics projects in Brazil
When you invest in Brazil from abroad, the contractor’s report is often your only view of your project. We provide you with an independent one: from bid analysis before signing through the asset’s readiness to operate.
- Southern Brazil: Santa Catarina, Paraná, Rio Grande do Sul
- Logistics warehouses
- Industrial plants
- Distribution centers
- Team led by Daniel Funchal, civil engineer
Your capital is in Brazil. Your eyes are not.
The monthly report arrives in Portuguese, organized around the contractor’s progress rather than your budget.
A payment request is due on Friday, and no one you trust has been on site this month.
Contract terms that are standard in Brazil (measurement-based payments, INCC escalation, economic-financial rebalancing) don’t behave like the contracts your team is used to.
Your investment committee asks for the estimate at completion, and the only number available is the contractor’s.
It isn’t bad faith. It’s distance.
Someone on the ground needs to be on your side of the table.
We know how projects work in Brazil.
We report the way your committee expects.
- Brazilian contract models: lump sum, unit price and cost-plus
- Measurement-based payments, certified before funds are released
- INCC escalation and economic-financial rebalancing requests
- Fire safety approval (AVCB), occupancy permit (Habite-se) and environmental licenses
- Contracts and documents in Portuguese, explained in plain English
- Monthly investor report in English
- Figures in BRL, with USD, EUR or any other currency equivalent on request
- Cost to complete and estimate at completion (EAC)
- Schedule tracked against the critical path
- Photo records from every site visit, with risks and open items each carrying a technical position
You keep the decisions. We keep the project readable
from wherever you are.
Three service lines, from
the first bid to operation.
Engage the line you need now. Many projects start with one and continue with the others.
Sign knowing what the project should cost and what the contract protects.
- Independent cost estimate benchmarked to the Brazilian market
- Bid leveling of Brazilian contractors, side by side
- Value engineering
- Contract review before signing, with risk allocation explained in English
Every payment request verified before you pay.
- Site inspections with photo records
- Payment certification against work actually done
- Cost and schedule control, with estimate at completion
- Monthly investor report in English
Contractor claims answered with numbers, not opinions.
- Change orders and rebalancing requests assessed under Brazilian contract practice
- Delay analysis: what caused it and what it costs
- Quantum assessment and technical response to contractor claims
- Technical support in negotiation
We act for owners and investors only, including on claims.
Every project happens in three places at once.
When the three move together, the project is under control. When one drifts, the investor’s money starts to leak, and nothing raises an alarm.
You pay for work that hasn’t been done yet.
The schedule slips and the contract doesn’t say who bears the cost.
You pay for something outside the contract, and later can no longer dispute it.
Cost, schedule, and contract are the three realities of a project. The W is the line that keeps them connected.
Industrial and
logistics projects fail
in predictable places.
Where budgets slip unnoticed
Errors surface years later, with the asset occupied
Assembly errors can’t be undone
The main reason tenants reject a warehouse
Leaks are complaint number one after handover
A few centimeters off and trucks can’t dock
Defines storage capacity and asset value
Without them the asset can’t operate
The right building with the wrong yard doesn’t work
In industrial and logistics assets, a mistake is never a
one-off. It is multiplied by every square meter.
You know who is on
your side of the table.
W3F works with an experienced professional team led by Daniel Funchal, the company’s director.
Daniel is a civil engineer from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), with BRL 614 million in projects and 342,000 m² built over his career, across logistics warehouses, industrial plants, shopping centers and public works funded by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). He serves as owner’s engineer on a large logistics warehouse program.
- Civil Engineer, UFRJ
- Postgraduate in Project Management (PMI-based)
- MBA in Real Estate and Construction Management
- Former Director General of Public Works, City of Blumenau
Tell us about
your project.
A 30-minute call to understand the project and tell you where we can help. Everything you share stays confidential.
Sending opens your email app with the message ready for our team. We reply within one business day (Brasília time, UTC−3).
