Singular design team management
One team leads architecture, interior design, engineering and construction management, so direction never fragments between consultants.
Service
Design & Build
Architecture, interior design, engineering and construction under one contract - Integrated Project Delivery in practice.
Overview
About Design & Build
Primebuild has a full-service architecture, interior design, engineering, construction management and project management team for clients who require design-build services. One contract, one accountable party, from first sketch to handover.
The firm practises Integrated Project Delivery: bringing major and specialist design skills into a single managed service that produces holistic concepts with consistent principles and coordinated solutions. The company profile names four specific benefits of working this way - singular design team management, no responsibility gaps, managed interfaces, and one building information model.
The value of that is easiest to see in what it removes. Under traditional procurement, the space between the designer's scope and the contractor's scope is where variations, delays and disputes live. Integrated delivery closes it by putting both inside the same organisation.
Why Primebuild
What you get with Design & Build
No responsibility gaps
Every discipline sits inside one contract. Nothing falls between a designer's scope and a contractor's scope.
Managed interfaces
The points where trades and disciplines meet are actively coordinated rather than discovered on site.
One building information model
A single model carries the project from concept to handover, so clashes surface on screen instead of in concrete.
Our process
How the work runs
The same sequence on every project, whatever its size.
Brief
Requirements, budget and programme established with the people who will both design and build the project.
Concept design
Holistic concepts developed with consistent principles across every discipline.
Coordinated development
Architecture, structure, services and interiors developed together in one model.
Approvals and procurement
Statutory approvals progressed and long-lead items secured against the programme.
Construction
Built by the same organisation that designed it, with the design team still engaged.
Handover
Commissioning, as-built information and handover of a coordinated building.
Gallery
Work of this kind
Photographs from Primebuild's completed projects. Full project records - name, location, date and client - are being confirmed before publication.
Questions
Design & Build: common questions
What is Integrated Project Delivery?
Integrated Project Delivery brings major and specialist design skills into a single managed service, producing holistic concepts with consistent principles and coordinated solutions. Primebuild identifies four benefits: singular design team management, no responsibility gaps, managed interfaces, and one building information model.
Does Primebuild have in-house designers?
Yes. Primebuild has a full-service architecture, interior design, engineering, construction management and project management team for clients who require design-build services.
Why choose design-build over appointing an architect and contractor separately?
Design-build removes the gap between the designer's scope and the contractor's scope, which is where variations and delays typically originate. One organisation is accountable for both the design and its delivery.
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