D&B Construction Group
Design-Build Services
Allowing D&B Construction to be involved in your project from the onset dramatically enhances the efficiencies of the pre-construction process to maximize savings to you and streamline your project’s schedule. We work closely with the design team and trades every step of the way. The design-build process adds value to your project by making the entire process cleaner from start to finish. It ensures continuity and fosters partnerships among all involved parties, empowering all stakeholders to work towards a successful project completion.
What sets us apart from other firms is the amount of effort and thoroughness of our pre-construction process. Utilizing the industry knowledge of our estimating team, we provide a complete analysis of designs to match your required functionality, potential risks, and any value-added opportunities to properly guide our clients through value engineering and setting accurate construction timelines.
Our Process
- Learn about your project from a holistic perspective.
- Identify and understand your projects’ needs and requirements from a programmatic and feasibility approach (including site layout and municipal regulations).
- Produce a high-level budget utilizing historical data from similar completed projects and current market conditions to understand preliminary construction costs inclusive of soft costs, acquisition fees, utility fees, etc.
- Identify and present the architectural and engineering design teams who are reputable and experienced in your type of project and location.
- Establish 30%, 60%, and 90% design sets of Construction Documents.
- Each phase of design will be reviewed with you and the Design Team to approve building assemblies, Architectural and MEP designs, aesthetics, function, and system choices.
- Upon each milestone of design, D&B Construction will provide recommendations to realign budget, design, and/or schedule should such recommendations be required.
- File for permitting and get contracts and schedules set with trades.
- Manage all construction activities, with at least one dedicated Superintendent and Project Manager, from commencement to completion.
- Conduct weekly on-site construction meetings with trade partners, suppliers, and your team representatives/consultants.
- Conduct bi-weekly/monthly project meetings with your team to cover real-time construction budgeting reports.
- Utilize our project management software to monitor all critical project information including schedules, submittals, specifications, budgets, photos, costs, and updates, among others.
- Conduct an internal final-walk through with our construction manager and rectify any problem areas before your walk-through.
- Final walk-through with you and our project team with completion documents.
- All as-built drawings, approved submittals, trade partners and supplier contact information, certificate of occupancy, and other documentation collected during construction are delivered to you for your records.