Planning a major renovation involves considerable upfront work to ensure a successful result. When you think of project success, you likely think of completing the job on time and within your allotted budget.
A pre-construction process is fundamental to achieving this result by guiding you through the decisions you must make upstream to avoid timeline delays and cost overruns downstream.
Working your design through the pre-construction process with an experienced renovation company is crucial to aligning the project scope with your intended level of investment. Far too often, this isn’t the case, and the project is doomed from the start.
Planning a major renovation involves considerable upfront work to ensure a successful result. When you think of project success, you likely think of completing the job on time and within your allotted budget.
A pre-construction process is fundamental to achieving this result by guiding you through the decisions you must make upstream to avoid timeline delays and cost overruns downstream.
Working your design through the pre-construction process with an experienced renovation company is crucial to aligning the project scope with your intended level of investment. Far too often, this isn’t the case, and the project is doomed from the start.
In your search for a renovation contractor, you’ll typically seek a cost estimate for your project. These are usually formed without specific clarity into the scope of work and leave you at risk of surprises and unplanned costs.
In contrast, working through a pre-construction process ensures that the full extent of the scope of work is captured and correctly accounted for in the cost estimate so you know what to expect both financially and schedule-wise.
When planning your home renovation, there must be alignment between design, scope of work, and investment level. Following a proven pre-construction process ensures that your project scope is matched to your intended investment level.
Nobody likes surprises during a renovation project. A pre-construction process illuminates unknowns that can be planned for before you start. By identifying potential risks, these can be factored into the planning process, minimizing surprises to both your budget and timeline downstream.
Living in a construction zone can be disruptive. Aligning the scope of work with your investment level will set you up with a clear and realistic timeline so you can properly budget time and finances toward temporary living, if needed.
Starting a renovation project is a big decision and can have a lot of risks if not properly planned for. Going through a proven pre-construction process creates a solid plan to ensure your project stays on budget and on time. This allows you to start confidently and know everyone is on the same page.
Right away, I was impressed with the way Oriel quoted the project. When I asked questions, they were very responsive and had thoughtful answers; it made me comfortable that they were out to do the absolute best work possible with no surprises around costs.
They had excellent communication and when communicating the few small issues we had they always came armed with thoughtful solutions. They made us feel entirely comfortable throughout the entire process despite the fact that we were renovation novices.
The starting point for the pre-construction process is to assemble the team of older-home experts, including your designer. If you need help with bringing on a design partner, we’ll be happy to make introductions to our trusted partners.
In this initial meeting, your complete scope of work is mapped out to ensure there is a clear understanding of your needs, wants, and dreams for your home. In addition, a feasibility study will capture your property’s unique characteristics.
At this early stage in the pre-construction process, your financial alignment is considered based on the scope of work created in Phase 1. This highlights if the design plan is on track or needs to be adjusted. It provides a clear feedback process to ensure your voice drives the planning and the team is aligned.
Often there is a need to reevaluate the design and scope of work because of an ambitious design, a tight timeline or a misaligned investment level. This is common, and the purpose of Phase 3 is to value engineer solutions to achieve an elegant design that aligns with your intended financial investment level.
Once there is alignment between the Scope of Work and your level of investment, the final pre-construction phase involves refining the estimate by using our trusted trade partner network to provide a fixed and exact price for the work components.
Having seasoned trade partners review the site ensures your scope of work and resulting cost estimate is as accurate as possible.
If you are planning a renovation project, or even in the early stages of thinking about one, we encourage you to reach out so we can learn more and offer you some valuable next steps.
