Preconstruction
Better decisions before cost and schedule problems get embedded in the documents.
Most budget overruns are drawn, specified, or sequenced months before anyone breaks ground. We join owners and design teams early, price what is actually on the page, and show you the cost of a decision while you can still make a different one.
Who this is for
Owners, facility directors, and design teams at concept, schematic, or DD.
What the work includes
Conceptual budgeting
An order-of-magnitude number from program and precedent, before drawings exist, so you can test feasibility and set a realistic funding request.
Milestone estimates
Priced at each design milestone against the same structure, so you can see exactly what moved between SD, DD, and CD.
Constructability review
Field-level review of details, sequences, and access by the superintendents who will build it.
Value analysis
Options with the cost, schedule, and lifecycle consequence of each one stated.
Schedule and phasing
Milestone schedules built around your operations: semesters, exhibitions, fiscal years, tenant move-ins.
Procurement risk
Long-lead items identified early, with alternates and early-release packages where lead times threaten the schedule.
Bid packaging
Scope split into packages that attract real coverage from qualified trade partners, including small and SWaM firms.
Site logistics
Laydown, access, crane and hoisting, temporary utilities, and how the public and staff keep moving during construction.
Design coordination
One set of comments, tracked to resolution, so decisions do not get relitigated at bid time.
When to bring us in
Concept
Best value. We test whether the program fits the funding before anyone draws it.
Schematic
Systems and structure are still open. This is where value analysis actually saves money.
Design development
Constructability, phasing, and long-lead procurement get resolved on paper, not in the field.
Construction documents
Still useful: bid packaging and coverage strategy. But the expensive decisions are already made.
Not sure which delivery method fits? That conversation is free.