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Construction Management & Design-Build

Aligning Teams to Deliver Better Projects

We believe that collaboration and open communication are the foundation of successful projects. In the design-build project model, sharing knowledge and ideas is fundamental.

For clients looking to work with under a Construction Management agreement, we have developed a unique process that integrates the magic of design-build into a Construction Management role. Design-build breaks down barriers between the designer, the builder, and the people who will actually use the building. The team works together to establish a shared vision of success. Everyone is free to contribute their best ideas at the right time, when they have the greatest chance of improving the project.

How We Do It

Aligning Stakeholders for Better Project Outcomes

In a design-build project, as team members experience the value of integrating diverse viewpoints, they develop trust. Communication increases. Friction decreases. The project takes on its own forward motion, and the sense of tangible progress makes the process energizing and fun.

And those costly changes in a traditional project? In a design-build project they are pulled up into the design stage where the cost of making changes is trivial.

Design-build eases the fits, starts, and frustrations that often come with complex building projects. When team members are collaborating actively, they can validate ideas, give immediate feedback, and hold each other accountable to the project vision along the way. The average design-build project costs less and is delivered faster, with a higher level of quality. Owners report better strategic outcomes such as increased productivity and customer satisfaction.

At Momentum, we believe a design-build partnership delivers better relationships, and it delivers better buildings.

How the Process is Streamlined

At the beginning of a project it is easy and low-cost to make changes, but as the project progresses it becomes more difficult and costly to make design changes. In a traditional or “design-bid-build” project, an architect develops a design that then goes out to bid. This gap in the process is a source of miscommunication and inefficiency, by the time feedback is received from a contractor the construction documents are already complete and must undergo costly revisions.

Design-Build eliminates this handoff and allows information to flow freely between project participants. The team building the project is at the table with the teams developing the strategy and designing the project.

Our Own Digital Transformation

Much like our partners in the financial industry, Momentum has also undergone a digital transformation.

A construction project has many participants and moving parts, and any single task has the ability to massively impact cost, schedule, and results. Traditionally in the construction industry these have been fragmented across multiple documents and communication channels, and the process of saving and sharing these documents meant that information drifted out of sync and there wasn’t a single source of truth.

We have developed innovative processes around the use of cloud platforms such as Smartsheet and Procore that have resulted in unprecedented levels of collaboration, accountability, and transparency. We start by breaking the project down into smaller and smaller pieces until we’ve captured every discrete unit of work as a task that can be assigned, scheduled, and tracked individually. Each task has an owner, so our project managers can communicate with other team members around specific issues and hold them accountable, and everyone viewing has the most up-to-date information.

Not only does this facilitate seamless communication between our strategic, design, and project teams, architectural partners, and subcontractors, you the client have full access to these platforms. We’ve integrated the philosophy of design build and integrated project teams into the very core of our business, shaping our processes and allowing us to lead the industry with innovative project management techniques.

Who We Serve

We perform Design Build services for: