General Contractors
Structural engineering for general contractors and design-and-build bids: cost certainty at tender stage and detailed design in construction sequence.
You have committed to a price and a date. Design, to you, is risk that we are there to keep small.
What you need from us
- A structural concept and quantities at tender stage
- Design that holds the price you committed to, not the free concept
- Detailed design in the sequence of construction
- Verification for construction stages, erection and temporary works
How we work
In design-and-build the loss appears in the gap between the bid and the detailed design. So we work with defensible quantities for the bid itself and then hold the concept that was priced. Where something has to change, the quantity consequence comes with it.
One point of contact for several disciplines
Structure, building physics and, where wanted, project management from one office. That takes coordination effort and interface risk off you, because the reconciliation happens here rather than on your desk.
Sequence
Your construction programme sets the order in which drawings are issued, not the logic of the analysis. That is what we work to.