Marko Pala

Marko is one of the owners of Stanton Constructability Services, LLC (SCS) and brings with him 21 years of diverse contracting expertise. His background in cost estimating is based on over 13 years of general contracting experience throughout the Western United States. He has led the Stanton Team providing Independent Cost Estimating Services on several CMGC’s for both UDOT and CDOT on high profile projects such as I-80 State Street to 1300 E, Southern Parkway Phase I, and the Twin Tunnels Project in Colorado. In addition, Marko has helped the Utah Department of Transportation establish Design-Build budgets for the Access Utah County Program ($500 million) and the I-15 CORE project ($1.1 billion).

Marko’s early experience included several labor positions on construction crews and experience in the Salt Lake City materials testing laboratory. Upon graduation, Marko began a career with a major contractor traveling throughout Idaho, Nevada, Utah, and California. His responsibilities varied from construction engineering to direct supervision of construction crews on both private and public transportation projects.

As his career progressed Marko was promoted to a Project Manager. He worked on several types of projects ranging from small trail jobs to large roadway reconstructs. Marko’s responsibilities included estimating, project startup, owner coordination meetings, personnel hiring and firing, writing of subcontracts, equipment selection, production, projections, scheduling, and final project closeout. Marko also owned and operated a small contracting business before he began working for Stanton Constructability Services, LLC. Early jobs with Stanton Constructability included the Independent Cost Estimates for CMGC projects. In early 2008 Marko helped to perform budget estimates, constructability reviews risk analysis, escrow document reviews, schedule reviews, and change order negotiations on the Access Utah County Projects. This led to a similar role with the startup of the I-15 Core project where Marko was the lead estimator for the Department. Marko’s responsibilities included establishing the budget and negotiation of costs associated with change orders.

Marko is involved in all aspects of the business including preparation and presentation of Independent Cost Estimates, CMGC negotiations (as the owner’s representative), preparation of large project engineer’s estimates, owner’s representative for change order negotiations, constructability reviews, and monthly schedule oversight, and pay application reviews.

Education

1991 Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
BA Economics
1994 University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
BA Civil Engineering