Ramtech takes a unique approach to design-build that encompasses three steps.
• Our Free Project Planning and Budgeting service is offered to all our potential clients. Once we understand your needs, we will develop a floor plan, building specifications, and a rough order of magnitude budget (making assumptions based off historical data for the site work elements) for the work.
• Providing preconstruction services is the next step. After reviewing the free project planning and budgeting proposal, should you wish to move forward with the project we will enter into a stipulated sum contract for preconstruction services. This builds on the free project planning and budgeting proposal by taking the designs to a roughly a 60% completion level. As part of the design work, Ramtech will commission a civil and geotechnical engineer to conduct the site surveys and investigations necessary to know exactly what challenges the site will offer. Their work will be combined with our in-house design teams work on the building’s design. Once the design package is sufficient to send out for bids, Ramtech’s estimators will generate a scope of work and gather firm bids on every aspect of the work. This information is assembled and presented to the owner as a Lump Sum Pricing Presentation (LSP) for the construction.
• The construction phase is the final step. After reviewing and agreeing to the LSP, the stipulated sum contract will be modified through a change order to reflect the total project (design and construction) amount. You'll know exactly what the total project costs are before a shovel ever touches the dirt. In the event the LSP is not accepted, the owner is only responsible (normally 3-5% of the project’s value) for the preconstruction services fee.