Northern
Colorado Front Range
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Pre-Construction
Services (Design/Build): Suppose the following process were necessary before you could eat out at a restaurant: You first meet with a "dinner consultant" to discuss your dinner desires (décor, recipes, budget, etc.). While they begin the design of your dinner décor, they hire a "dinner designer" to begin creating your dinner recipes. Various other consultants are hired to design your dinnerware, your glassware, your dinner linen, etc. In time, your "dinner consultant" informs you the design of your restaurant experience is complete. Now you must get bids from various restaurants to find out which restaurant you will be eating at and how much your experience will cost. Your "dinner consultant" creates a set of "dinner criteria" based on their final design and solicits restaurants for costs to create what they have designed. A number of bids are received and you select a restaurant based on final cost (assuming it fits your budget). Several weeks later, your "dinner consultant" escorts you to the restaurant where the owner’s personnel have put together the décor and recipes according to your consultants’ specifications. You enjoy your meal. The bill arrives, but you find it is a lot more than you were led to believe. Salad dressing, croutons, condiments, steak sauce, drinks; all cost extra. The restauranteur explains they were not specifically mentioned and that in order to be the lowest bidder (and thereby get your business), they bid on the documentation they were given, no more, no less. They assumed you knew they were extra. To borrow from this illustration, the design-build process assumes a person should be able to go to a restaurant of their chosing, select from a menu of dinner choices based on what they value, for a price they can afford and all in a time-frame of their own chosing. The construction process should be no different. Design-build strives to provide the following to every customer: Choice, because every customer is unique, and so are their needs. Value, because lowest cost isn’t always the best value. Speed, in design and construction, because money costs. Competitive pricing with no hidden costs. The design-build process is a process from concept, to budget, to
design, to construction, to completion of warranty -- and beyond. If we do our job
right, you'll ask us back on your next project, as many already have. |
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