DESIGN-BUILD

SGS specializes in design-build contracting … delivering well-planned, high quality facilities to both government and corporate clients. SGS offers a complete “turn-key” design-build program to meet special project requirements and/or client demands. Our approach to design-build contracting emphasizes quality, quality design and quality construction. Approximately 80% of SGS’s work program has been via the design-build contracting method. SGS has served as the prime contractor and team leader on over $351 Million in construction contracts during the past few years.

SGS offers the following design-build advantages to all our clients:

Single Source Responsibility - The client benefits in that one entity has total responsibility to ensure that everything related to the project (both design and construction) is provided in one single contract. This arrangement eliminates the potential for an adversarial relationship between the design firm and the contractor to develop, leaving the Owner caught in the middle.

Increases Construction Speed - Studies show that construction speed for projects utilizing the design-build program is increased by an average of approximately 12%, as compared to those projects completed by a conventional design-bid-build program.

Reduces Total Project Delivery Time - The total time required from the first day of design to the final day of construction is reduced on an average by a whopping 30% for projects utilizing the design-build program.

Reduces Total Projects Costs - As cost continue to escalate, more and more clients are turning to design-build as their construction solution, taking advantage of an average of approximately 13% savings over other contracting methods.

Reduces Change Orders and Claims - One of the many “value added” benefits achieved through the design-build program is that claims and change order request are reduced by almost 28% when compared to conventional design-bid-build projects. Allowing the designer and the contractor to work in a true “team” relationship greatly improves the accuracy of budgets and schedules and allows the client to make timely decisions important to the project’s ultimate success.