Giving proper consideration to the design element of your project, whatever side it is, is easily overlooked. Our advice, start with the builder.
Deciding what you would like from a room, house or even a garden often has to align with a budget. Our experience is that engineers and architects either don’t consider this within the design, or severely under estimate the costs at the outset.
We offer a design service that considers cost when making decisions. Working with a local architect and engineer to provide everything the project needs, we ensure that the final design is something affordable and cost efficient.
Some projects will only require basic drawings. An architect is unlikely to tell you that. Other projects need to built in a certain way due to access. An engineer is unlikely to know that. All these things cost time and money later down the line.
Our proposal is that we take on the design process with you. We discuss your wants and needs, consider their feasibility and then bring in the architect. Their vast knowledge of design and planning allows us to make the best use of the space and natural light and offer those show stopping elements that we might miss. They also advise on the best way to tackle planning permission where required and specialist materials that might be necessary or just more impressive!
Remember, throughout this process we are monitoring where it is and isn’t sensible to spend money, considering the added value of each potential option.
The drawings will give us the principle design. Then we (client and builder) work though the internal layout until we’re happy we have a layout that ticks all the boxes for the right money. We contact the engineer, with whom we work regularly, and have any calculations and specifications done. Once we’re happy we do a final draft of the drawings and price – then we’re off!
The process above avoids over engineered construction, drawings outdating due to onsite changes, unrealistic structural work and even drawings full of information that we don’t need that make them unusable. After years of it being hard work doing it the old way, we think it’s time to work smart.
If you’re considering a project, it’s never too early to get the right builder involved.
