Hire Sweetwater Construction Corp at the beginning of your construction project to ensure accuracy for your budget and schedule.
Services- Sweetwater’s Predict.Ability. process
makes your construction job run smoother.
Benefits- Peace of mind. Cost-savings. Control. Assurance that design and construction are working proactively together. Better schedule control.
Ask Yourself- Do you know what will happen at every stage of your project? What it will cost? How long it will take? Do you want to avoid surprises?
Service- Sweetwater surveys the facility and reviews concept designs
Benefits- Understanding the existing site or building helps set the stage for accurate budgeting and planning. Avoid incurring replacement costs due to infrastructure with little remaining useful life.
Ask Yourself- Without this early insight, will your team be able to foresee potential site-related issues? Is this site a good fit?
Service- Sweetwater prepares a safety and logistics plan.
Benefits- Ensures that potential safety issues are addressed.
Ask Yourself- Where will contractors park? Where will employees park? How will I keep my employees out of the construction area? How will I secure the site from neighbors’ kids? How will we keep construction workers safe? How will the building be protected from construction activities?
Service- Sweetwater provides preliminary construction budget.
Benefits- Anticipate potential costs that may otherwise go unnoticed at this early stage.
Ask Yourself- Will my proforma work? How much money do I need to borrow or request from Management? Will the budget hold or will I need to get extra funds? Will I have a contingency? If an unanticipated problem arises, is there a plan in place to resolve it, and will that necessitate additional funds?
Service- Preliminary budget includes viability of the re-use of existing electrical or HVAC systems and, if necessary, remediation of this equipment.
Benefits- Maximize the value of existing equipment by repurposing what already exists.
Ask Yourself- Have existing assets been evaluated? Might I be spending money on new equipment or systems when the existing ones are adequate?
Service- Preliminary budget includes detailed specifications with realistic pricing.(Sweetwater’s budgets are widely accepted by banks as part of the evaluation package.)
Benefits- You are prepared for financing or capital appropriation requests. Determine early on if conceptual design can be built within your budget.
Ask Yourself- Will my loan or capital appropriation get approved?
Service- If preliminary budget indicates project will cost more than client or bank wants to spend, Sweetwater will work with designers to reduce anticipated project cost through value-engineering (VE).
Benefits- Value engineering enables design or specification changes that reduce cost of a project without changing the design intent. This may provide opportunity to lower your budget.
Ask Yourself- Have you been offered choices of suppliers or materials that might lower cost without compromising design? Will you have an opportunity to choose savings or incorporate more “wants” into design, such as upgraded finishes, more utilities or higher-end equipment?
Service- Sweetwater updates budget at defined intervals such as completion of design development and during defined progressions of detailed design.
Benefits- Keep the project cost on track by making design adjustments as necessary. Budget becomes more accurate as the amount of design info increases.
Ask Yourself- What happens if you are “surprised” mid-project with additional costs?
Service- Sweetwater provides schedule optimization. Master schedule incorporates all project activities including Planning Board approval, outside agency approvals, design, permitting, bidding, construction, move-in, and closeout
Benefits- Helps team determine how to handle critical path activities to optimize the schedule. Planning for long lead items early helps ensure meeting target dates in master schedule.
Ask Yourself- What happens if the design takes too long? What happens if the project is delayed because materials were not ordered early enough? What if there’s not enough time built in to get all the approvals and permits required? When does design have to be completed to meet desired construction start date?
Service- Sweetwater provides planning help for ensuring your business operates during construction.
Benefits- Transition issues are anticipated in advance so your business is minimally interrupted.
Ask Yourself- Have you thought about the impact of construction on your business operations? Do you know what needs to happen during the transition into your new space? Will you be managing the construction project while you are running your business?
Service- Sweetwater’s Predict.Ability. process makes your construction job run smoother.
Benefits- Peace of mind. Cost-savings. Control. Assurance that design and construction are working proactively together.
Ask Yourself- Do you know what will happen at every stage of your project? What it will cost? How long it will take? Do you want to avoid surprises?