As a local firm, we provide a personal touch, a relationship-building approach, and a “tried and true,” proven process to ensure successful projects—client after client.
- Provide a complete project estimate encompassing all aspects of work.
- Analyze hard construction dollars—or scope of work—and soft costs of professional services to budget line items and maximize the amount of work that can be obtained by the bond.
- Once all costs are determined, this master accounting cost outline will be carried throughout the project with constant updates to ensure successful budgeting.
- Complete constructability review prior to “hitting the streets” with bid documents Our Electrical, Mechanical and Civil Engineers as well as our Architects, Designers, and Project Managers will build the job on paper to solidify documents and offer constructive review.
- Meet with Project Architects to ensure nothing has been missed in drawings and specifications and change orders will be kept under 3% of the prime contract.
- Offer value engineering ideas—savings to the Owner, adding any comparable materials of lesser value, or less expensive means or methods, not cheaper products.
- Review all existing systems or materials in good working order that can remain, saving on replacement costs.
- Obtain a broad bid list— an important key to our success, and our client’s. Our professionalism and management methods have ensured the Wicks Law bidding process has a wide range of capable, competitive bidders. Drawing a wide range of bidders for each trade will keep the project bid packages within budget.
- Monitor schedule deadlines: we use a milestone-driven schedule with increments broken down by day. At our weekly prime contractors’ meetings, a previously determined amount of work must be completed to call the week a success. If goals are not met, the means, methods, techniques, manpower, and materials will be discussed to bring a portion of the work back on schedule by the next week’s meeting. Entire project team, including the Owner, will know the progress of work daily.