Pre-Construction

Pre-Construction services provide the greatest opportunity to add value to a construction project. We have helped clients save millions of dollars and make difficult projects possible in the pre-construction phase. Pre-construction services include:

• Provide detailed estimates prior to completion of drawings based upon our extensive history of project costs.
• Provide owner budgets and tracking, including leadership and advice, on full project costs beyond solely construction.
• Provide detailed schedules, including schedules for design, permitting and construction.
• Leadership and planning. We lead meetings, push progress, document results, and hold the team accountable.
• Coordinate pre-development meetings with city, utilities, design team, owner, volunteers, or other stakeholders. We collaborate to achieve owner objectives.
• Evaluate the project for scope, phasing, and access.
• Constructability advice, including review of details and cost-effective product recommendations.
• Value engineering, system cost comparison, and cost saving suggestions.
• Provide designs, details and estimates for MEP and critical systems, such as fire alarm, fire sprinklers, plumbing, HVAC, electrical, security, camera, computer cabling, phone, access controls, video and sound equipment, acoustical systems, kitchen equipment, elevator, etc.
• Solicit, refer, or manage professional services as desired by owner, including soils testing, surveying, hazardous material abatement, contamination remediation, special inspections, traffic studies, wetland reports, irrigation and landscape design, civil engineering, structural engineering, architecture, interior design, kitchen design, acoustic design, lighting design, building envelope design, real estate brokers, bankers, and legal services.
• Our in-house civil engineer can provide earthwork analysis to assess cut and fill operations, soil quality, utility availability and routing, value engineering, erosion control and schedule coordination.