Preliminary Budgets and Scheduling

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The design bid build, the great part about that is that we have that whole long time to design it out and talk to the owner and get all of that kinda worked out before any of the contractors get involved, now we bring in the contractors and now we build it out, so that whole big long time, that's great in terms of making sure we have the project that we want but the downside to it is we don't have any input about cost from the contractors until we get all the way down to the end of all that bidding process in order to know how much things are gonna cost, so the idea of the CM is we get that information, we get that expertise, and we bring it in early to the process so the cost estimator, that concept was the architect going out and getting their own version of that information and just hiring it out as a skill. The CM is where the owner is doing that, where the owner is having that level of expertise brought to the table and so by suggesting going with that as a system, what you're saying to the owner is, we don't feel confident that we can be really accurate with the cost estimating and the scheduling for various reasons, maybe we just don't have very good skills in that, maybe we just don't have experience in this particular type of project, you know, maybe it's an unusual project that, really, nobody has experience in, so, we're suggesting this idea that you change the way that you are expecting to do the project delivery because it's gonna allow us to get this information early into the process, so, that's a reasonable sort of discussion point to be had. Another way of thinking about it is bringing in the contractor.

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