Rushing delivery is flexible.
We’ve built a firm that focuses not only on the broad essential skills to meet these needs, but on personalized process and teaming. This is Delivery.
From the time we start working—for every user and project—we strategize delivery as well as engineering. We’ve learned over and over the complexities of not just the design of building air, water, electrical, and specialty systems, but also the multiple ways they’re put in place and managed. How will you obtain all the expertise (design, estimating, construction, management, and so on) you need? What contracting and teaming methods are best for your project? The answers to these questions customize how we can best serve your team. The range of our clients is testament to our flexibility: Owners, developers, architects, general contractors, construction managers, and mechanical contractors. We are able to provide targeted design packaging specific to the delivery method. This flexibility is fundamental to our mission and creates true sustainability—meeting all your needs in the most appropriate way.
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Owner Desires
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Conservative cost management approach: bid everything.
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Larger pool of prospective mechanical contractors.
Rushing Delivers
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Engineer-of-record services with stamped, bid/construction-ready documents.
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Accurate budgets prior to contractor involvement.
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Code strategy development and negotiation with code officials.
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Drawings are developed to a level maximizing trade coordination and minimizing field changes.
Owner Desires
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Conservative cost management approach: bid everything.
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Early teaming—and independence—between engineers and builders.
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Flexibility in compiling specific team engineering and construction experts.
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Earlier mechanical and electrical contractor cost commitment and “buy-in”.
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Earlier mechanical and electrical contractor labor/availability commitment.
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Greater mechanical and electrical contractor responsibility for financial risk.
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Contractor participation in final design coordination and details.
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Early contractor construction scheduling.
Rushing Delivers
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Engineer-of-record services with stamped, early bid/construction-ready documents.
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Accurate budgets prior to contractor involvement.
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Code strategy development and negotiation with code officials.
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Drawings are developed to a level maximizing trade coordination and minimizing field changes.
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RFP and process management for hiring mechanical contractors.
Owner Desires
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Single point of accountability for engineering and construction.
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Early teaming by systems engineers and builders.
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Flexibility in timing for hiring Design/Build Contractor.
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Earliest construction cost commitment.
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Earliest mechanical and electrical contractor labor/availability commitment.
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Earliest mechanical and electrical contractor participation in final design coordination and details.
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Earliest mechanical and electrical contractor construction scheduling
Rushing Delivers
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Bridge Documents
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Accurate budgets prior to contractor involvement.
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Engineering and systems design expertise for concept decisions and partnership with architect before design/build team selection.
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Bridge Documents setting specific and measurable design parameters, a basis for ensuring mechanical and electrical contractor accountability to scope.
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Design/build RFP and process management.
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Design process expertise (effort required, fees, terms) before commitment to Contractor.
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Peer review of drawings and installation for conformance with the Bridge Documents.
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For projects pursing LEED certification, availability and consistency for special studies, energy analysis, and Commissioning Services.
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