Cost-effective | Time-efficient
Design-Build
Method
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 Precon 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.
Step One
Preliminary Drawings
Initial consultation shapes your project vision. We define scope, site conditions, and budget parameters — establishing alignment before detailed design work begins.
Cost Established
Step Two
Detail Drawings
Full construction documents are developed and your cost is locked in at this stage — complete price certainty before a single shovel hits the ground.
Step Three
Construction
With design and budget finalized under one contract, construction moves forward with clarity, speed, and a single point of accountability from start to finish.
Traditional Method
Step One
Preliminary Drawings
Step Two
Detail Drawings
Step Three
Bid
Cost Established
Step Four
Construction
The Precon
Advantage
When you begin a Design-Build project with Precon 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.
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.
