The Design-Build Process, Advantages, and Benefits with OTM Designs & Remodeling Inc.

Design-Build is a “one-stop-shopping” approach to remodeling where the architectural designer and building contractor are one and the same. Imagine the benefits of making a single phone call to a team that can handle your entire construction project!

OTM Designs & Remodeling Inc. brings the entire remodeling process – from design through construction – under one roof. The benefit to you is a design that fits your budget, an easy process, and the security of knowing one company is responsible for your project from beginning to end. At the heart of the OTM Designs & Remodeling process is open and constant communication, so as to guide smoothly through every stage. My clients love the ease and flow they experience when they work with us.

Quality Designs:
The Design-Build process allows your project to be professionally designed by people skilled at finessing the balance between design enhancements and cost containment. In addition to having one eye focused on your targeted budget, we are uniquely responsive to your needs, emotions and lifestyle. During the construction process this attention to quality does not end, as the designer becomes the master builder, and manages the construction of the project to completion.

Single Source Accountability:
With both design and construction in the hands of a single entity, there is a single point of responsibility for quality, cost, and schedule adherence. You direct one, instead of many. You only have to deal with one company that takes accountability and stands behind its work. It’s convenient, and it provides consistency. When the right hand knows what the left hand is doing, there are less misunderstood intentions, reduced conflict, lower construction costs, and the whole process takes less time.

Continuity and a Seamless Transition From Design to Construction:
A Design-Build firm is involved from start to finish, which adds an inherent efficiency. The chance for things to fall through the cracks is greatly diminished. There’s greater continuity between the vision of the design and the realities of construction than there otherwise would be. It helps that there’s no handoff between the two – making the transition seamless.

Greater Involvment Means Lasting Pride:
Design-Build operates under the assumption that you actually want to be an active participant in your project. By getting involved you’re guaranteeing that you will get the outcome you want, as well as satisfaction of your goals – what you want is going to be achieved. We’ve found that such an involvement is inspiring and gives clients a lasting sense of pride about their home and their remodeling project.

Cost Savings:
Design and construction personnel, working and communicating as a team, evaluate alternative materials and methods effectively and accurately. Value engineering and constructability are utilized continuously and more effectively when the designers and contractors work as a team during the entire design process.

Time Savings:
Your project is scheduled into the construction schedule at the start of the design phase, minimizing the lag between design and construction start. More time is saved by eliminating iterative redesign and bidding because the value of various design alternatives is thoroughly considered at each decision point in the design process. Additionally, this increases the probability that the final design will meet the full set of your expectations, design objectives and the targeted budget.