PRE-DESIGN
Before full architectural design begins, crucial upfront planning and analysis can make or break your upcoming building project. Our comprehensive pre-design services establish a strategic foundation to set your project up for success.
We collaborate closely with you to align on your vision and goals, assess feasibility, create project budgets and schedules, analyze sites, engage stakeholders, and conduct specialized studies. This provides the insights we need to inform design strategies that uniquely fit your priorities.
Our thoughtful pre-design process reduces risks, gathers critical information, and validates project viability early on. This creates a roadmap for smooth execution and cost-effectiveness down the road.
With decades of experience, we navigate pre-design intricacies you may not anticipate. Our diligent upfront work ensures no crucial factors are overlooked.
Let us lay the groundwork to optimize project outcomes, prevent hassles, and make your vision a reality through strategic pre-design services.
BIDDING/ NEGOTIATION
As architects, we recognize that meticulously detailed construction documentation is the crucial foundation for the accurate pricing, competitive bidding, and successful execution of your project.
Our rigorous construction documentation process brings together comprehensive architectural, engineering, and interior design drawings, specifications, calculations, and details into a precisely coordinated technical package. We utilize a collaborative approach with constant communication between disciplines to ensure consistency and technical excellence across all documents.
With decades of experience, we exercise great care and quality control to produce complete, unambiguous documentation that clearly conveys the complete scope and intent of the design. We also provide full services including permitting, agency approvals, bidding support, cost surveys, and project management for a streamlined progression into construction.
By making construction documentation a priority, our clients gain the technical clarity and completeness required for contractors to accurately price, competitively bid, and flawlessly execute the construction of their project. We firmly believe in outstanding documentation as the key to achieving your vision.
SPECIALIZED SERVICES
We offer an array of supplementary services to support clients and enhance outcomes through all stages of the architectural process.
Services include space analysis, cost models, and feasibility studies to inform design. Site development services encompass analysis, planning, infrastructure, and securing approvals.
Materials and systems testing verifies assemblies meet specifications. Interior design services involve space planning, furnishings, finishes, signage, and graphics.
Project administration and construction management oversee schedules, budgets, contractors, and execution. Promotions and public relations provide strategic communications.
Documentation services thoroughly record the project through photography, surveys, and archiving.
By delivering end-to-end support, our specialized services maximize value, quality, and satisfaction. We fulfill our commitment to fully support client goals and deliver exceptional results.
Schematic design builds upon pre-design work to transform a project from abstract ideas into concrete form and function. Our architects dive deep into conceptualizing and representing the spatial relationships, scale, and character of your project through this crucial phase.
We start by thoroughly reviewing all available data to ensure we understand project goals, budget, and context. After exploring multiple approaches, we refine a selected design direction that aligns with your vision through drawings, models, and renderings.
Frequent collaboration and presentations allow us to gain your input and build consensus as the design develops. We consult with engineers for preliminary structural, mechanical, and other building system concepts. Our interior designers weave together interior layouts, finishes, and furnishings.
This intensive process evolves the design from a big picture concept to schematic drawings with real shape and substance. Our personalized service ensures systematic exploration of alternatives so your vision takes form thoughtfully. With decades of experience translating visions into buildable designs, we create a solid schematic foundation to set your project up for success into the construction documentation phase.
CONSTRUCTION ADMINISTRATION
The bidding and negotiation phase is a culmination of prior design efforts, requiring diligent management for a successful contract award. We shepherd clients through bid solicitation, analysis, negotiations, and finalization of construction agreements.
With extensive experience, we issue clear bid documents, manage bidder communications, facilitate competitive bidding, evaluate results, and advise on award strategy. Our architects thoroughly review bids for completeness, pricing, qualifications, and alignment with project requirements.
We offer customized services like pre-qualification, separate bid packages, or negotiated specialty bids to suit project needs. Seamless coordination with engineering partners ensures comprehensive technical review.
Throughout the process, we maintain disciplined project management and open client communication to meet schedule and budget goals. Our expertise in bidding and procurement lends confidence in awarding a construction contract that optimizes value and quality. Let us guide your project to a successful start of construction.
SCHEMATIC DESIGN
The design development phase is where we bring your vision to life, evolving schematic concepts into detailed, construction-ready design documentation. Our architects lead an intensive process focused on resolving all technical details while maintaining the design aesthetics and intent.
Through ongoing collaboration, we ensure the design continues aligning with your goals as we refine architectural plans, material selections, finishes, millwork, lighting, and accessories. Multi-disciplinary coordination with engineers and consultants creates a unified design with optimized building systems.
Immersive visualizations, presentations, and cost estimates along the way provide crucial insights that allow us to make informed design decisions together. Our personalized approach and decades of experience enable us to work through complexity, turning your vision into comprehensive construction documentation.
With excellence in design development, we produce the technical clarity needed for accurate pricing, effective construction, and the successful realization of your project goals.
POST-CONSTRUCTION
Throughout construction, we provide contract administration services focused on oversight, progress evaluation, quality assurance, budget and schedule management, and client communication.
With extensive experience, our architects conduct thorough site observation, track and assess construction progress, process payment applications, provide technical interpretations, and review submittals and changes. We identify issues early, recommend solutions, and closely inspect architectural elements for quality execution per the contract.
For complex projects, we offer full-time on-site representation to monitor activities. Seamless coordination with engineers ensures comprehensive reviews across all disciplines. We maintain rigorous documentation like observation reports and record drawings.
Our contract administration expertise provides the oversight necessary to resolve problems, contain costs, maintain schedules, and achieve successful project delivery in conformance with design intent. Let us safeguard your investment through construction.
DESIGN DEVELOPMENT
The post-construction phase encompasses activities that facilitate your transition to occupancy and continued optimization after project completion.
We thoroughly inspect finished work, document deficiencies, and secure their correction to meet contract requirements. Before occupancy, we stringently test systems and certify total performance.
For a smooth handoff, we offer client consultations, training on building operations, warranty reviews, and assistance with furnishings and equipment. During the warranty period, we re-inspect components and address defects.
To enhance building performance, we can provide facility assessments, sustainability benchmarking, alterations design, and consulting on custom elements like artwork and signage.
Our post-construction services focus on ensuring your total satisfaction through completion, occupancy, and beyond. Let us actively support the success of your investment over its full life cycle.