Here’s why you need both your contractor and your architect/designer/architectural
technologist at the design table together and at the same time:
-to make sure your project is actually buildable
-to improve not only the design but it’s ROI too
-to keep your budget under control
-to establish a contingency fund to cope with unforeseen circumstances
and to ensure quality
-to reduce the 3 biggest problems in construction—delay in
completion, cost overruns, and deficiencies in the final product
Here’s an example of a redesign by a contractor that:
-lowered reno costs from $1.3 million to $800,000 by eliminating
outside fire stairs as well as keeping more of the existing home at 445 Daly
-improved the layout going from 10, 200 to 275 sq ft
bachelor microsuites to 10, 300+ sq ft microsuites with their own private bedrooms
-adding a loft bed on the ground floor creating the
possibility of 2-bedroom microsuites there harnessing the 10-12 foot celing
height there
-creating a single penthouse microsuite of > 500 sq ft
with 2-bedrooms
-improving the ROI/cap rate on the project making it
feasible for the owners to undertake…
Bruce M Firestone, B Eng (civil), M Eng-Sci, PhD, Ottawa Senators founder, Real Estate Investment and Business coach, ROYAL LePAGE Performance Realty broker, 1-613-762-8884 bruce.firestone@century21.ca twitter.com/ProfBruce profbruce.tumblr.com/archive brucemfirestone.com
MAKING IMPOSSIBLE POSSIBLE
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