Design Team Selection
Design team selection is equally as important as contractor selection. The quality of your design team selection will directly reflect the quality of the design documents.
Design team selection is critical and plays a critical role in the quality of our built environment. The capabilities of the architects and engineers on the integrated design team constitute the single most important factor in determining the success of the overall design—from image and attributes of the building and landscape to construction costs and life-cycle costs. Building in today’s marketplace is a complex undertaking requiring many different skills and materials.
Successful designs are the result of good design team selection and of an integrated design process that addresses not only client needs and requirements, but also climate, context, and quality while complying with public health, safety, and welfare, and sustainability building requirements. Well qualified design professionals who understand these complexities, can deliver thoughtful and innovative designs that satisfy the client’s programmatic needs, while addressing the unique characteristics of a given site and community.
Involving Nationwide Consulting LLC before the design team is selected allows Nationwide Consulting LLC to give our recommendation on the personnel who will communicate your vision through plans. Efficient design documents come from good design team selection; this will help to nullify extra costs associated with design deficiencies and limit orders.
Project Management and Owner’s Representation
As owner’s representative or project management, Nationwide Consulting LLC serves as an extension of the owner’s staff and will conduct the process of design team selection on your behalf. Nationwide Consulting LLC provides guidance through the lifecycle of your project, protecting the owner’s interests at all times.
Nationwide Consulting LLC provides owners with the value-added resources they will need to conduct design team selection in such a way that will ensure that their project is a success. For an owner whose team may not have the required depth of resources to look after each component of a project, Nationwide Consulting LLC literally serves as an extension of their staff.
As the projects “eyes and ears,” Nationwide Consulting LLC can provide on-site representation to make sure that construction proceeds in accordance with contract documents, on time and within budget. Working as your advocate, Nationwide Consulting LLC experts enable clients to focus on their core business without distraction.
Nationwide Consulting LLC staff of engineers, architects, estimators, schedulers, claims and surety specialists will conduct design team selection and other construction professionals who have hands-on experience and skills that are applied throughout each phase of a project, and before the project begins the constructability plan review process. Nationwide Consulting LLC provides clients with this technical knowledge to keep you abreast of events, enabling you to make informed and timely decisions.
Nationwide Consulting LLC offers a full spectrum of Project Management and Owner’s Representative services to our clients. Functioning as the project management consultant, Nationwide Consulting LLC coordinates and manages the contractual relationships with designers, engineers, contractors, and vendors, and assures compliance through the design team selection process.
Nationwide Consulting, LLC
Robert E. Hanson
Principal Partner
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