Preconstruction Services

Paving the path to certainty through intense collaboration

Preconstruction is a highly time-sensitive opportunity to ensure project success — by building early-phase consensus among the architectural, engineering, and construction members of the project team.

While establishing a clear view of cost/investment parameters, our integrated planning process requires the project team to think above and across traditional project-teamsilos. This can lead to value-added contributions, including:

Fine-tuning of equipment lists that will drive the final design
Identification and prioritization of long-lead items to help safeguard against schedule delays
Creation of instruction sets that help the engineering team to define and streamline its early phase efforts

Core Services

Preconstruction

Construction Management

Design Assist

Design Build

Facility Assessment

A Pre-planning Approach That Brings Uncommon Certainty

We ask the questions that help create successful outcomes.

Clients need to achieve cost, scope and schedule certainty as soon as possible. At PIDC, our intensive pre-planning approach incorporates our expert understanding of the market — along with our ability to define costs and schedules early — as we plan your successful project delivery. In this crucial analysis and planning phase, we ask all the right questions to extract the multidisciplinary data needed to effectively define the project, align scope and budget, and help prevent costly disconnects down the road.

Our general perspective is clear and straightforward: “Design it once. Design it right.” As demonstrated by this cost curve from the Construction Industry Institute (CII), the first 60 days of a project are what determine its overall outcome and effectiveness. This is the reason for our intense focus on early-phase estimating, planning, and collaboration.

A Focus on Increasing Engineering Value Vs. “Value Engineering”

We introduce value-added alternatives — while you still have options.

The PIDC concept of “engineering value” is a set of proactive, preconstruction support services — different from the often-reactive, traditional model of “value engineering.” Our deliberate, pre-planning methodology in the early design phase provides the project team with responsive cost/benefit analyses of alternative materials, services and systems. While reviewing design deliverables for constructability and coordination, we typically offer options for consideration that promote team discussion on cost-effective, value-added alternatives. This helps to keep a project’s design parameters from outdistancing its budgetary constraints.

On-point, On-budget, On-time Deliverables

We provide exceptional assurances as part of every plan.

In the final analysis, a construction project isn’t driven by words. It’s driven by work. Whether serving as a construction manager or a designer/builder, PIDC establishes a comprehensive set of preconstruction deliverables to drive successful, on-budget, on-schedule project execution.

PIDC’s field-proven work processes include exceptional document control, along with cost controls and authorizations that provide true accountability for all project expenditures. We tailor the range and depth of our deliverables to meet the unique requirements of each client and project.