Preconstruction

Preconstruction is not just passive estimating support. It is an intentional and strategic process of learning and refining owner goal and criteria, making good decisions on scope and value, and reviewing and refining the work of the project in order to deliver the best project at the best price available. Through experienced and proven techniques, we help clients improve their project planning, design and construction deliveries by improving the construction process well in advance of the construction phase by:

• Understanding the teams goal through active listening and objective refinement
• Performing constructive and effective Constructability Reviews
• Empowering the client and their design professionals by establishing project value understandings
• Publishing periodic formal and detailed cost estimates with the ability to make changes in scope and value in the process of design
• Prioritizing fiscal responsibility
• Establishing a timeline and program schedule for planning, design, and building
• Leading the process by managing coordination agendas, meeting minutes, talking points and follow ups
• Investigating sites and evaluating methods for various site work features
• Providing means and methods recommendations and system studies
• Creating options in the work by conducting component and alternative/option cost studies
• Consulting structural design for Pre-engineered Steel Building Systems (when applicable) conforming to the design intent, including obtaining all necessary design and engineering data for permit submittal
• Consulting for subcontractors and suppliers
• Planning continuous advanced construction
• Engaging in hard cost competitive bidding to obtain best market price
• Obtaining early procurements and expediting, as required