Consulting or Cost Planning Services

Before you decide to build your own home or finalize the decision about a builder, you may want to seek the advice of a third-party expert.  We can help you and your builder have a rewarding business relationship that results in an efficiently built, high-quality home.

Evaluating

• Qualify and Recommend Designers and Engineers.

• Inspect Site/Structure for existing conditions that will impact design and construction costs.

• Forecast areas and magnitude of likely change orders

• Flag other necessary construction that can be most cost-effectively done at same time as primary project.

Estimating

• Develop conceptual estimates based on conceptual plans.

• Create preliminary estimates based on preliminary design drawings.

• Punch up what-if estimates based on optional features and alternative designs, specifications and subcontractors.

• Make final estimates based on final working drawings.

Specifying

• Write statements of the assumptions and specifications underlying estimates.

• Develop scopes of work for trades to ensure accurate pricing, quality and scope.

• Provide design development of plans produced by others but needing construction details.

Consulting

• Propose ideas for construction methods that will lower cost of realizing design.

• Suggest technologies for decreasing long-term costs for operation and maintenance.

• Propose recapturing of existing on-site resources for new project.

• Present ideas for maximizing environmental benefits.

• Present alternative contracts for construction.

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