Design & Layout

Over $200 billion of construction nationwide, including 50% of all private industrial/commercial construction, will be performed on a Design/Build basis by the year 2008. The explosion of growth of the time tested Design/Build delivery method has been fueled by owners' demand for single point of contact and responsibility, guarantees for price and schedule, demands for accelerated project completion, and a positive partnering approach to project delivery.

The advantages of our Design/Build practice include:

• Time Savings
• Engineering and Construction Cost Savings
• Earlier Knowledge of Cost "Up Front"
• Value Engineering "Up Front"
• Constructability Review "Up Front"
• Communication and Partnering
• One-Source Responsibility
• Reduced Owners Risk

We have taken stock of this and offer our clients something that can rarely be found in the construction industry - "self performed" true single-source engineering and construction. US Fire's "self performance" delivers all of the inherent cost and schedule advantages of design/build plus:

• Avoidance of double markups of multiple subcontractors
• Streamlined control of quality, communication, cost and schedule
• Reduced owner coordination cost
• Additional schedule and cost savings
• Modular prefabricated construction approach

Design-Build Schedule Advantages - refer to diagram