Using Construction Estimates Throughout the Design Process

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But there are a lot of really good benefits, and really good values and really important uses of getting construction estimates throughout the design process so that we can hopefully design in a manner that's appropriate to what's good for the owner, what the client and owner needs, and hopefully can validate the construction ultimately of the building. At the end of the day, we want everyone to be on the same page, so we want the owner to be on the same page with all of their financing partners, whomever the contractor is when they're included within the process, aligned with their means of making it, and obviously all of that is in align with our design proposal. There's a lot of different ways to look at construction estimates, and construction estimating is actually quite different depending on contracting type that you use.

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