One contract for design and construction — and one party answerable when the two have to agree.
Design-build removes the seam most projects fail at. LoDuca Associates holds a single contract covering both the design and the construction, so there is no gap to argue across when a detail proves harder to build than it was to draw.
We assemble the design team, carry them under our agreement, and develop the drawings alongside the estimate rather than after it. The owner approves a program and a budget, and the design is shaped to hit them — instead of being redesigned once the bids come back too high.
Because the builder is in the room while the building is being drawn, constructability problems surface as design decisions rather than change orders. That compresses the schedule and, on most projects, removes an entire bid-and-rebid cycle.
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We start from what the building has to do and what the owner can spend, and hold both as the design develops.
Architects and engineers engaged under our contract, coordinated to a schedule with the estimate updated at every milestone.
Details reviewed by the people who will build them, before they are issued rather than after they fail.
Filings, variances, and building department coordination handled as part of the delivery, not as the owner’s problem.
The same firm that drew it builds it — trades bought competitively, schedule held, quality controlled in the field.
A guaranteed maximum price once the design reaches definition, with savings shared rather than absorbed.
Tell us what the building needs to do. We will handle the design and the construction under one agreement.
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