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We get involved before drawings are final, so budget and buildability decisions get made with real construction cost in the room, not discovered after the contract is signed.
Owners lose more money to decisions made before a shovel hits the ground than almost anywhere else in a project. Long-lead equipment ordered too late, a foundation designed without asking the crew who has to build it, a budget built on square-footage averages instead of the actual site conditions. Our pre-construction team sits in on the early conversations specifically to catch that class of mistake, using the same cost data our self-performed crews generate on live projects, not published estimating tables.
Where every project starts
We walk the site with your team before anything is priced, so the estimate reflects real conditions, not assumptions.
Design intent gets checked against how it will actually be built, and against what it will cost to build it that way.
A defensible number your team can take to leadership, with the assumptions behind it spelled out.
Transformers, structural steel, specialty valves. Anything with a long lead time gets identified and ordered before it becomes the critical path.
We have priced this kind of project since before most estimating software existed.
Our numbers come from what our self-performed crews actually spend, not a national cost book.
Every estimate follows the same audited procedure, project to project.
Thompson Dam Gate Rehabilitation
A public-infrastructure rehabilitation project where the budget-stage estimate had to hold up through a full design and permitting cycle before construction started. Our pre-construction team's early involvement kept the final bid within range of the original number.
As early as you have a concept and a rough budget target. The earlier we see it, the more our input can actually change the cost, not just confirm it.
It depends on scope and whether the project is expected to convert to a Lakehead build. Call us and we will give you a straight answer for your situation.
Yes. We regularly review third-party design packages for constructability and cost before construction, whether or not we end up building it.
Budget-stage or bid-ready, we will give you a straight answer on scope, schedule, and who runs it.
