Design Coordination and Constructability Reviews help Reduce Expensive Cost Overruns

Our professional services ensure your building designs are reviewed for constructability and optimized to save you money.

Our Process

We thoroughly review your complete design for Errors and Omissions and that it is Properly Coordinated between all disciplines, for a complete constructable build. We take all things into consideration such as, site access, construction planning that a professional builder will do, such as crane access, laydown areas for effeciant construction, Listing of long lead items and planning realistic scheduling, etc. Accurate cost and material takeoffs can be generated to offer a more concise budget analysis.

During our review we incorporate an accurate Virtual 3D Model using the latest in BIM modeling systems, and make sure the design works and everything needed to go into the building fits. The model is built the same way a builder will build the building. Each construction element follows real work sequencing, from the ground up. Everyone sees the same model and items such as on site MEP installations, etc., can be thoroughly mapped out and verified, prior to trades arriving on site. Connecting elements have to fit, as designed, or the model immediately identifies the problem and the design team then has to get together and make the fix.

The Model is an exact representation of the actual building to be built. If the model can’t be built as designed, then the real project will suffer from the same issues, only at a much higher cost.

Things like clash detection, which trade gets priority for most effecient and cost effective build, etc. It’s much easier to plan HVAC ductwork, plumbing, sprinklers and electrical runs, when you see just how much space is actually available above the ceiling and in the walls. Bottlenecks and space restrictions are quickly identified. Electrical runs are easier and more cost effective to coordinate around large HVAC ductwork, than vice versa.

You can see if large ductwork access works with the structural steel design, or does the roof or floor joist design get in the way of required ductwork design requirements. Has the mechanical designer reviewed the roof structural requirements, when designing his RTU design. Will the roof support the RTU’s, or do you have to add more steel structure to the roof to accomodate them. Fix this during design stage and things flow effecienctly during construction.

Fail to capture this fix early and you have to pay extra for the RFI’s, stoppage in the schedule, added cost to have another trade come in and add more steel to the structure, while other trades wait to do their work. The cost starts to snowball and your client starts to get frustrated due to the extra cost and delay to the project. Do this kind of mistake a few more times and things get much worse.