The graded pad, laydown yard and site trailers at the Califia Farms site in Bakersfield, before vertical construction began

The project is won before the ground breaks.

Pre-construction defines the critical first steps, for design-build and design-bid-build alike.

One project manager, concept to completion.

Once a project manager is assigned, they stay with your project through completion, assuring the agreements and decisions made early in development are adhered to all the way to turnover.

Structural steel framing going up over the deck at Califia Farms, with the crew setting beams

What pre-construction includes.

Site & feasibility

Finding and proving the ground before you commit to it.

  • On-site tours of existing facilities to assess needs
  • Site selection
  • Development feasibility studies for utilities, infrastructure and jurisdictional approvals
  • Preliminary civil engineering services

Design & review

Shaping the concept while it is still cheap to change.

  • Conceptual design services
  • Constructability review of owner-provided documents

Budget & schedule

Numbers you can take to a lender, and dates you can hold us to.

  • Conceptual budgets
  • Detailed conceptual schedules from concept to completion