Services
Design-Build
Our design-build model unites the extensive expertise of our architects and builders into one coordinated team focused entirely on your vision. By integrating design and construction early, we can streamline communication, uphold schedules, and reduce risk while ensuring every design decision aligns with budget, constructability, and long-term performance. This seamless, turnkey solution enables us to deliver smarter, faster, and more reliable results.
Design-Build Services:
A True Turnkey Solution
Our design-build services at McGrath & Associates provide clients with a single, integrated partner from the first conversation through final construction. By combining our experienced in-house architectural design team with our seasoned construction management professionals, we streamline communication, mitigate risks, improve cost control, and ensure your project is designed and built with the highest attention to detail and quality.
Whether constructing a new facility or renovating a complex, occupied environment, our turnkey approach allows for clarity, consistency, and confidence at every stage of your project.
Unified Planning & Programming
Every design-build project begins with listening. Our architectural team partners with owners, stakeholders, and construction managers to understand space needs, performance goals, and budget expectations. Through these preliminary planning sessions, we help clients refine their vision and establish a solid foundation for all future decisions.
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Integrated Design Development
Our architects lead the full design process, from schematic design and design development to construction documents, while working closely with our estimators, construction managers, and engineering partners. Having our design and construction expertise sitting right across the hall from one another allows us to:
- Design within budget requirements
- Design to fit within schedules
- Eliminate discrepancies early
- Reduce change orders
- Develop fully coordinated drawings
- Facilitate efficient construction
- Improve constructability
Conceptual Budgeting and
Proactive Cost Control
We believe budgeting starts when design starts. With specialized estimating tools, an extensive cost history database, and our direct expertise of market conditions, we develop conceptual budgets early and continually update them throughout the project. As the design evolves, we proactively communicate budget impacts and provide options that preserve design intent, cost efficiency, and schedule timelines.
Cross-Discipline Coordination
One of the greatest advantages of using McGrath & Associates design-build services is having an integrated team all working together under one roof. Through weekly collaboration meetings, shared modeling, and intensive quality control measures, we are able to identify and address issues before they reach the field, which reduces the likelihood of work needing to be redone, protects your budget, and maintains schedules.
3D Design
Our architectural division uses advanced software platforms to create fully modeled spaces. Clients benefit from early equipment planning and utility coordination as well as from being able to experience high-quality renderings and 3D walkthroughs. This digital coordination promotes faster, more consistent construction with fewer surprises.
Preconstruction Leadership
Before construction begins, McGrath & Associates engages in a collaborative effort that includes:
- Constructability analysis
- Schedule development
- Phase construction planning
- Long-lead equipment identification and procurement plans
- Permit and authority support
- Value engineering
This ensures the project enters construction with carefully planned and clearly defined parameters.
Direct Procurement for Enhanced Cost and Schedule Control
We directly procure key equipment and materials to reduce markups, improve schedule reliability, and maintain strict quality control. This approach gives owners confidence in the quality of the equipment and materials being used while protecting their budget.
Quality Control Built into Every Phase
Our rigorous quality assurance program encompasses all members from design through construction and ensures that work is done right the first time. Our teams are expected to perform:
- Detailed shop drawing and submittal reviews
- Preparatory meetings
- Initial and follow-up inspections
- Comprehensive documentation
- Third-party testing as required
Integrated Scheduling & Field Construction
A project is most successful when scheduling and field construction are cohesive. Our project managers and superintendents:
- Develop and track detailed CPM schedules
- Lead weekly coordination meetings
- Maintain and communicate three-week lookahead plans
- Monitor daily progress and safety
- Resequence tasks as needed to protect key milestones
Seamless Execution from Concept to Completion
At McGrath & Associates, our design-build delivery approach brings architectural design and construction expertise, as well as superior budget, timeline, and quality control, all together into a single, unified process. This comprehensive, turnkey solution ensures that your goals remain the driving force behind every decision and every detail. If you are ready for a simpler, more reliable way to build, then contact us today.