Pre-Construction Services

PH&C manages design, approvals, estimating, and bidding before construction starts, so budget, schedule, and scope are settled before you sign a contract.

Pre-construction is where an owner’s budget and schedule are won or lost. PH&C manages that phase on your behalf. We assemble the design team, track the approvals, test the cost against your pro forma, and bring the project to bid with a scope contractors can price.

What PH&C handles

Program development that turns your goals into uses, square footage, quality level, budget, and target dates.
Design coordination through schematic design and design development, with the architect and engineers working from one set of requirements.
Land development, zoning, highway, stormwater, environmental, utility, and building approvals, scheduled against the critical path.
Detailed estimating and value engineering while the drawings can still change.
Contractor procurement, including bid documents, bid leveling, and contract negotiation.
Pre-construction meetings that put the owner, the designers, and the contractors on the same plan before work begins.

What you get

One manager responsible for the plan, the budget, and the schedule.
Cost feedback at each design milestone, so decisions are made with prices attached.
An approval calendar that names each agency, each submission, and each dependency.
A bid package that contractors can price on equal terms.
A clean handoff into construction management, with the baseline schedule and budget already in place.

Hire us for all of it or part of it

Some owners bring PH&C in for the entire pre-construction phase. Others need one piece, such as estimating and value engineering or contractor procurement. If you have not yet purchased a property, start with site analysis and feasibility. Tell us about your project and we will recommend where to begin.