Willmeng Construction, Inc. Pre-Construction Services
Purpose of Pre-Construction Services:
- Identify and control costs
- Maintain initial design scope
- Allow project team flexibility as market conditions or scope change
- Develop project schedules
- Identify and incorporate issues of interest to Owner
- Identify long-lead items
- Determine construct techniques
- Project phasing
- Project sequencing and interrelationships of subcontractors
Options Analysis and Design Review:
- Allows team to evaluate products and materials for construction
- Means of achieving design intent at lowest construction cost
Budget Estimating:
- An on going process from commencement to project completion. As the design solidifies each budget from concept to final is linked giving the project team maximum flexibility in costing decisions and design intent.
- Concept budget
- Schematic budget
- Working budget
- Final budget or GMP
- Change order budgeting
Concept Budgets:
- Concept Budgets allow informed decisions among available options
- First cost checkpoints for project team
- Scope of work
- Type of construction
- Overall design concepts
- Historical project data
- Unit costing
- Consultations with select specialty contractors
Schematic Budget:
- Schematic budgets are a continuation of the concept budget
- Cost checkpoint for selected design
- Floor plans
- Elevations
- Refine scope of work
- Type of construction
- Review of overall design concept
- Historical project data
- Unit costing
- Consultations with select specialty contractors
Working Budgets:
- Identify all cost options
- Design elements are finalized
- Floor plans
- Elevations
- Site plans
- Preliminary civil plans
- Preliminary structural, mechanical, plumbing, and electrical plans
- Historical data
- Unit costing
- Select subcontractor pricing
Final Budget:
- Construction documents are ready for regulatory review
- Multiple detailed contract estimates for subcontractors
- Review for conformance to original design intent
- Basis if GMP
Pricing Options/Value Engineering
- Means of keeping project within budget and achieving balance between function and lifecycle costs. Value engineering is an ongoing process that should never reduce the scope of work. It’s intent is to achieve the owner’s vision in the most cost effective manner.
- Ongoing review of the design/construction documents and specification
- Selected specialty contractors to review specific components
- Prepare cost studies of competing solutions
- Incorporate first cost and life cycle cost
- Formal "brainstorming" sessions
- Suggestions made during pre-construction process
Commodity Shortages and escalating Costs:
- Utilize Willmeng’s 30+ year business relationships with suppliers and vendors
- Identify construction systems most likely to be affected
- Identify alternative construction systems
- Prepare value analysis of systems
- Identify volatile commodity materials
- Prepare value analysis of volatile commodity materials
- "Lock in" identified costs and availability
Subcontractors:
- Willmeng prides itself on the subcontractor base is has built over the last 30 years. Our subcontractor database is continually evaluated and critiqued on performance. We only invite proven performers to partner with Willmeng on negotiated projects. The selection process for each job is rigorous and detailed.
- Must have a contractor license number
- Supply general liability and worker’s compensation insurance
- Provide average annual work volume
- A list of at least three references from comparable projects
- Staff availability for projects
- List preconstruction services offered
- Comply with OSHA requirements, all federal and state laws, and city and county ordinances.
- No smoking, no alcohol, no "boom boxes" permitted on the job site
- Appropriate dress and language while on site
