By building a fully integrated, collaborative team (including consultants, architects, engineers, subcontractors, suppliers, and owners) we can significantly reduce the amount of time from the inception of your project to its completion. Design-build delivery reduces pre-construction time by streamlining purchasing of long-lead-time items and eliminating bidding periods. Teamwork reduces rework and redesign. Design, procurement, and construction can easily overlap, allowing for fast track completion and earlier utilization of the completed facility.

Decisions that can be made during the concept and design phases will impact costs of a project more than any other phase of construction. Instead of waiting until after all engineering plans are complete, design and construction personnel work as a team with owners to evaluate alternative materials and methods from the beginning. Value engineering and constructability can therefore be reviewed continuously and more cost-effectively incorporated into the design. Because design-build allows us to be highly adaptive and responsive in the field, big decisions can also be revisited during construction without change orders or additional fees.

The singularized responsibility inherent in design-build compels motivation for quality and proper project performance. Owners’ requirements and expectations are documented in performance terms and it becomes our responsibility to produce those results. Sander’s design-build team warrants to owners that it will generate design documents that are complete and free from error. During construction, this attention to quality does not end, as team members work together to maximize design and functionality, while maintaining budgetary and schedule concerns.

The best kind of communication is open, honest and often. Design-build is carried out through a highly-transparent process that allows the client to understand all aspects of the project and to know what’s going on. Since the design parameters and budgetary goals of a project are developed simultaneously, it allows for effective execution and communication among all stakeholders. Active membership and greater access to the project team ensure that the client’s perspective is represented throughout the project’s development.

By working with a single partner, your risk exposure is lower. With design-build, the key source of conflict between the designer and constructor is eliminated because each no longer reports separately to the owner. Because the design-builder has the responsibility for developing drawings and specifications as well as constructing a fully-functioning facility, change orders for “errors and omissions” are virtually eliminated.