About

REMO Consultants

A general contracting and construction management firm working across New York. We build private homes, commercial interiors, and the buildings that hold congregations and neighborhoods together — from an office in Brooklyn.

Standards

How we work

Most of what separates a good job from an average one is invisible by the time the work is done.

If a molding does not sit right, we strip the window and redo it. We do not patch and blend and hope the paint carries it. There is no version of the work where a temporary fix becomes the permanent one, because the temporary fix is the thing that fails first and it always fails after we are gone.

We work for clients spending real money on their buildings, and we finish to that level — down to the hardware, the transitions, and the fixtures nobody photographs.

That standard is easier to state than to hold. Holding it means being willing to stop work, say what we found, and start a section over. Two jobs explain the position better than any description of it.

From the field

What is behind the wall matters more than what is on it

During a kitchen demolition we found the back wall of the house unsupported. A previous contractor had removed a structural beam, and the sheetrock was carrying the load. We stopped, brought in an engineer, and corrected it before another nail went in. The client had been living in that house for years without knowing.

Occupied buildings do not pause for you

Most of our commercial work happens in buildings that stay open. Tenants show up, congregations meet, patients get seen. Sequencing around that is not a constraint we tolerate — it is most of the job.

Smooth curved white wall meeting a flat ceiling under a soft gradient of light

Team

The people who hold the standard

Moshe Schonfeld

Owner

Moshe holds degrees in HVAC service and engineering from the Refrigeration Institute and Lincoln Tech — training that covers not just air conditioning but the basics of engineering, electrical, and plumbing. It is why quality control here starts at the roughing rather than the finishes.

He reads a plan set for intention, not just instruction. Where drawings do not fully convey what the architect, engineer, or designer had in mind, that gap gets closed before it becomes a problem on site. And he has opinions. If something does not make sense, or there is a better way to get there, he says so.

Shira

Chief Accountability Officer

The title is not decoration. It means somebody pursues every open item to the end, and nothing is left hanging. Every task that comes up gets seen through, no matter what, with a relentless focus on making sure the client gets what they need.

On a recent job, the client bought their kitchen from an outside supplier with an outside installer — work REMO took no management fee on. We pursued the installer's punch list anyway. Most contractors would have said their responsibility ended at the white box.

We have no contractual hold over a vendor a client hired directly, so there is a limit to how hard we can push. We push to that limit.

Andy

Quality Control and Coordination Director

Andy runs quality control, coordination, and receiving. When a subcontractor installs every window on a job, he goes through afterward with a laser and confirms each one. Same on kitchens and islands.

He also runs a small in-house crew for punch list items, hardware, detailed painting, and specific troubleshooting. That crew exists because of a common failure: windows arrive a week before the installer, nobody is there to take the delivery, the supplier holds the material, and the whole project slips. Same with lumber, or the electrician's material. Having our own people to bridge those gaps keeps the schedule intact.

Technology

We use AI in estimating, clash detection, and researching best practices, and we follow what is newest rather than what was proven five years ago. That includes trial and error, and new subcontractors, held to the same standards as everyone else.

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