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News & Insights is where we share how we take on complex builds, see around corners and protect our clients’ time and money.
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PRECONSTRUCTION
Find the hard costs before they find you.
Preconstruction is where cost and schedule get decided. On the Guild Theatre’s zero-setback lot in downtown Menlo Park, we priced shoring options, neighbor agreements and street access before excavation began, because that is where the real money sat.
VALUE
ENGINEERING
GOOD VALUE ENGINEERING KNOWS WHAT NOT TO CUT
Done well, value engineering ranks what matters before anything is cut. At the Palo Alto Junior Museum & Zoo, we worked through six rounds against a fixed budget. The building gave up a story, and the signature rockwork and trees came through intact.
HUMAN APPROACH
“For a developer, every week saved goes straight to the return. We build the schedule to protect that return from day one.”
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Vance Brown completes a full first-floor renovation of Stanford’s Cordura Hall in one month.
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Project Executive Jeff Bloxham on building to LEED and what it asks of the builder.
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