Design Build
One contract, one team and one point of responsibility from the first sketch to the final inspection.
Design build puts the designer and the builder under one contract, which removes the most expensive argument in construction: whether a problem is a design fault or a workmanship fault.
Overview of services
We take a brief and a budget and carry both through to a finished building. The design team is ours or yours — we work either way — but the responsibility for the result is not divided.
Our services include
The advantage shows up in the middle of a job rather than at the start. When a detail turns out to be unbuildable, there is nobody to write to and nothing to negotiate: the people who drew it and the people who have to build it are the same team, and it gets resolved in an afternoon.
- Feasibility and site appraisal
- Concept and detailed design
- Single-point cost and schedule responsibility
- Value engineering with the design team in the room
- Construction and commissioning
- Aftercare and defects management
Our Working Process
Every job runs to the same five stages — appraise, design, price, build, hand over — and the only one clients rarely see is the third. It is where the schedule stops being a wish and starts being a commitment, and we will not skip it to start on site a fortnight earlier.
Please download our document to see the specifics of this service and how we work.
