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Design-Build Process

Design-Build construction is, quite simply, the most cost-effective and time-efficient method of building.

With traditional project construction, you, the Owner, have to manage separate contracts and relationships with designers, consultants, and a contractor. This shared responsibility across multiple parties often results in miscommunication, unnecessary frustration and, ultimately, disagreements when challenges arise.

Design-Build construction, on the other hand, places project responsibility and control with a single cohesive team, consisting of you and Pre-Con Builders, from conception through completion. We form a team for your project and, knowing that today’s business environment demands project costs be established and confirmed prior to the commitment of funds for engineering and design, we assemble unified recommendations from all professionals and trades that fit within your budget and timeline.

The Pre-Con Builders
Advantage

When you begin a Design-Build project with Pre-Con Builders, you receive the assurance of top-quality engineering, sound design practices, and professional construction management, all from a single source.

Here are just a few of the unique ways we contribute to a smooth, seamless experience for you throughout the process.

 
 
 
 
 
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When you begin a Design-Build project with Pre-Con Builders, you receive the assurance of top-quality engineering, sound design practices, and professional construction management, all from a single source.

Here are just a few of the unique ways we contribute to a smooth, seamless experience for you throughout the process.

Returning
To Our Roots

Design-Build is often described as a return to the concept of the Master Builder methodology, which existed in ancient times and into the Renaissance, when many of the great Wonders of the World were created. The Master Builder was not a contractor, an architect or an engineer, but more an embodiment of all three disciplines.

As much as Design-Build is defined by a single-source contract for design and construction services, it is also characterized by the attitude of everyone involved in the project. At Pre-Con, everyone makes the mental shift to think and act as a single entity, working together for the greater good of realizing your vision.

Why

Smart Places To Save

Cost savings are generated through innovative design and competitive tendering of sub-contracts. Proven and practical construction techniques that have been developed over the years of designing and constructing buildings are incorporated into the design. Value is guaranteed by competitively tendering the major portions of the work.

Less Unwelcomed Surprises

With Design-Build, the total project cost is established during the initial stages of project development. Before a contract is signed, a Guaranteed Price is determined based on a mutually agreed upon scope of work. You are then fully protected against cost overruns that may occur throughout the project duration. Design-Build also relieves you from the usual complexities and problems associated with building projects, leaving you free to concentrate on your daily responsibilities. The uncomplicated lines of communication ensure flexibility for changes and alterations.

Early Start, Early Finish

Having oversight of the project from beginning to end allows us to overlap design and construction schedules and pre-order critical components, resulting in an earlier completion date. This Fast-Track construction approach helps facilitate earlier occupancy, saving you rental or interest charges, and paving the way for revenue to be realized sooner.

Performance Guaranteed

Because we are in control of all the variables and responsibility, you will also benefit from better design translation in the final product as everyone on the Pre-Con team is always on the same page. With Design-Build, the warranty for both the design and the construction of the finished project is a single contract responsibility. The performance of the finished product is guaranteed to be in accordance with what was discussed during the planning stages and as it relates to the scope of work and building criteria.