DESIGN + BUILD

Our design-build contracts combine design and construction into a single point of responsibility, avoiding potential adversarial relationships that could arise under traditional, design-bid-build contracts. 

The architects’ and contractor’s cross coordination on the project allows the owner to focus on general decision making in the project’s scope as a whole. This leads to a higher quality project that better suits the owner's needs. 

The contractor establishes a guaranteed cost early on in the design phase, allowing the owner to make changes, request additional value engineering, or add scope to a project before completion of the design. 

Value engineering and construct-ability review are enhanced and utilized continuously throughout the project duration. An early involvement of the design-build team is essential in maximizing the full potential of the design-build delivery system. Decisions that can be made during the programming, concept and design phases will impact the schedule and costs of the project more than any other phase of construction.  

With our design-build projects, design and construction for a project easily overlap, allowing for fast track construction.

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The owner benefits from this shortened time frame.

Because the design-build team resumes full responsibility of developing drawings and specifications along with constructing a fully-functioning facility, change orders for errors and omissions are virtually eliminated. Each stakeholder on the design-build team is responsible for the risks that they are best positioned to manage.