Any commercial construction or renovation project involves more than just arriving on site and starting construction. The financial, geographic, legal, administrative, and scheduling complexities are far greater than just the concept of obtaining permits and starting construction. Obviously, proper foresight is of utmost importance when anticipating or embarking on any commercial construction project.
Leaders with an impeccable knowledge of success against the odds are often heard to say, "He who fails to plan plans to fail". In the realm of commercial construction, there could be no better epitome of this saying.
Because of the complexity and scope of commercial construction projects, experienced general contractors divide the tasks and procedures involved into clearly defined stages or phases as part of their planning and foresight. In the construction world, these various aspects of planning form part of the pre-construction phase. Accordingly, design activities are the most important elements of the planning and pre-construction phase.
This is because everything that follows, including procurement, budgeting, scheduling, subcontracting, and ultimately construction, is directly dependent on design. If contractors and their design teams omit, misinterpret, or misallocate any particular element during the design phase, the entire process will suffer, resulting in unexpected and unwanted budget and schedule overruns. Changes will come.
In turn, these changes translate into many unpleasant things, such as delays and customer dissatisfaction. But with the help of a trusted general contractor and preconstruction partner like Belan Construction, you can seamlessly position your project for success.
To help you as the project owner avoid the costly problems mentioned above, we have compiled a checklist to help you understand the components of the design phase that make it to the pre-construction phase. It forms an essential and important element during
Design as part of pre-construction.
The pre-construction phase plays the same role in a commercial construction project as the foundation does for a building. A structure is only as strong as the foundation on which it stands. Similarly, design serves the same purpose for the pre-construction phase as it does for the foundation.
Simply put, pre-construction includes everything that is done before the project is completed and construction activities begin on site. From scoping and objective determination to strategic planning, project brief, project design, budgeting, scheduling, feasibility analysis, construction review, obtaining permits, and procurement, most offsite activities fall under this umbrella term.
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