Design Build & Design Assist Services

Design Build

Utilizing our expertise during the early stages of a project ensures cost effective design as well as allowing usage of the most energy efficient products. This ensures that our clients get the most value for their dollars spent during construction while giving them a high degree of control over future operating costs.

Our Methodology:

Conceptual Budgets 

• Using the client’s project description and design criteria, a detailed scope of work, preliminary drawings and detailed cost breakout for the feasibility assessment of a proposed project is furnished.

Design Development

• As scope and design criteria change during the “what if” stage of development, we continue to adapt and refine drawings and budgets accordingly.

Value Engineering

• Coghlin provides recommendations on installation methods, on product selection and availability, assuring clients that their quality standards will be met without compromising the budget.

Construction Documents

• Client approved drawings and scope with a defined budget for the construction process.

Sigular Accountability

• Our in-house team of professionals provide the Owner with a single source for their design and construction needs while strengthening control of the project timeline and cost.  With an eye towards seamless integration of design and construction, Coghlin is always looking to provide solutions.

Improved Communications

• The linchpin of Coghlin's design-build approach is communication.  Design and construction professionals work with the determination to understand and achieve the goals of our clients and the project team.  Frequent meetings, both formal and informal are utilized to review design, specifications, budget, constructability and schedule...all in an effort to achieve the best possible value and final product.

Early Knowledge of Cost

• With the Owners input and direction, Coghlin is able to establish firm project costs earlier than with the traditional design bid method of delivery.  This process allows our Client to identify a firm fixed price earlier on in the process.

Cost Savings

• Maintaining a budget and identifying potential cost savings strategies is a strength of Coghlin's design-build delivery system.  Design and construction professionals working together from the earliest stages of conceptual design maximizes the potential for alternative solutions or cost saving measures.  These solutions are incorporated into the project design without delaying the design schedule or increasing the cost of producing the documentation.

Time Savings

• Without compromising the appropriate critical time required to complete various phases of design and construction, the overall project duration is shortened using the design-build delivery system.  By removing any period of re-design and by overlapping the bid process and purchasing of time-critical components, a project makes an uninterrupted transition from design to constuction with improved efficiency.

Assurance of Quality

• With our design team and construction team working together, there is an inherent desire to provide a high quality product.  Any issue with the quality of the documents or the construction will only cost Coghlin, the design builder, money in the end.  With a traditional approach, many times issues with the design or construction lead to unproductive "finger pointing".  As a design-build entity, Coghlin has a single source responsibility to ensure quality by performing work properly from the start.

Improve Risk Management

• Utilizing Coghlin's design-build delivery method system, clients are able to improve their risk management by transferring responsibility for design and construction to a single source.  With a clear scope of work and identifiable goals, clients are assured that Coghlin will be accountable for both design document accuracy and the construction of a properly performing Electrical, Telecommunications, Audio Visual or Security System.

Design Assist

The design assist method of delivery is a hybrid method that has evolved from the design-build and traditional bid method of delivery.