How can you save money without compromising on the quality?

Whenever you plan to start building or remodeling your home, you should seek advice from an independent consultant who will present you with the best construction solutions from a technical, acoustic, and thermal point of view.

Find out what is most suitable for the place you want to build and what the best solution is, considering the quality/price/benefit ratio.

When does it make sense to seek the advice of an engineering and construction consultant?

An engineering and construction consultant can intervene in any of the three phases of a project:

1. Initial decision-making phase about what you want to do.
2. Project review phase or solutions that have to be implemented.
3. Project financial feasibility study phase.

Initial decision-making phase

In the initial phase, the ideas phase, about what you want to build or improve, the consultant can give you important advice about the best technical solutions and best practices for your specific case.

This phase is very important because the decisions you make here will condition the entire project and have implications on its costs, quality, and results.

Project review phase.

The second phase is the project review phase. At this stage, the engineering and construction consultant's opinions can make the difference between having a good result at controlled costs or not.

The consultant is an independent figure, unrelated to the architect or technician responsible for specialty projects (sewers, electrical installations, thermal and acoustic insulation, waterproofing, air conditioning). This allows you to make an exempt assessment.

The benefit is to detect solutions in advance that don't make sense, are poorly conceived, or are not feasible, as well as, in a very approximate way, to evaluate the costs of the same as foreseen in the project.

The work of the engineering and construction consultant ensures that everything is to start the construction or rehabilitation and that it runs smoothly.

Project financial feasibility study phase.

When we decide to build a house or make improvements to it, we look for the best possible cost/benefit/quality ratio.

We want to know how much the construction or improvement will cost, considering the quality of the materials and solutions we are looking for.

Good advice allows us to improve construction quality and achieve savings of between 5% and 30% of the initial cost. The engineering and construction consultant gives you all the essential information to make the best decisions.

Functions of the engineering and construction consultant:

• Study the project and construction solutions
• Market research of building materials and equipment (price/quality)
• Market research of labor (price/quality)
• Propose alternative construction solutions (while maintaining the architectural design) and quantify their costs
• Draw up a list of all the work to be done and its quantities
• Draw up a price list of building materials and required labor for each task.

In this way, the client has a basis for comparison when asking contractors for quotes.

Important note:

In the initial decision-making phase of a construction or remodeling project, everything that we want to be part of the project must be rigorously and thoroughly defined.

The type of cladding, window frames, blinds, tiles, etc. must be clearly defined, as changes to the initial project are expensive and jeopardize the cost of the construction.

Having to alter engineering or architectural projects due to solutions not previously considered, increases construction costs.