Phase 02Design.

Plans, permits, and a written decision schedule.

Every allowance is named. Every choice has a deadline. Every question has the person on our side who owns the answer. Design is where the build is won — and where most projects we hear about have already gone wrong before the first shovel.

What happens

We coordinate with your architect (or, if you don't have one, the architect we recommended in Imagine) to produce permit-ready drawings. In parallel, we build a written decision schedule — every choice the build will require, the deadline by which it has to be made, and the consequence of missing it. We translate the drawings into a real budget, line by line, with allowances we'll defend in writing.

This phase typically takes four to seven months. It involves the township engineer, often a geotechnical engineer, the architect, the structural engineer, and the trades whose scope we're already locking in. It is the most invisible phase from the outside. It is the most consequential.

What you take away