Design build is a process by which the owner of the property and the “designer/builder company” work together to create a professional outcome that reflects the desires and needs of the homeowner— it is a team approach employing the Master Builder Method. In the first step you will have a meeting for probably an hour. Michael will ask questions, take pictures and measurements and listen to know what your needs are. Then he creates concept drawings and you have a second meeting to go over the initial design ideas and budget. If you like what you see and hear then you will approve a design contract and proceed to complete the design work and matriculate to a construction contract. If for some reason, you are not happy with the design work or the budget, there are no hard feelings. Michael will probably see you at Safeway as this is his community—he is even a UCD alumnus.
The commitment begins when you sign a design contract after the second meeting. Up until then, the process is free as this is how your business is earned. With design build, you avoid the pitfalls of hiring a separate design or architectural company, and then having to shop those plans around to various contractors who are not intimately familiar with the project design leaving you vulnerable to their personal interpretation of those outside plans. With design build there is a seamless transition from design to build.
You experience a team approach, and you will know the budget cost at the second meeting within less than 5% of the final cost . Up front cost, team work. clear communication and a finish product that reflects the initial concept. And with Michael O’Leary’s design and build your designer is your builder.
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