Design & build
One firm draws it and the same firm builds it. That is not a convenience — it removes the gap between a drawing and a price, which is where most of a project’s cost and most of its argument live.
- ModelSingle-responsibility design and build
- PricedFrom our own drawings
- StartsBefore the design is finished
- EndsWith an as-built that matches
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The case for one firm
A drawing that cannot be built is not a design
Our design and build services integrate creativity with practicality. We streamline the process by handling both design and construction, ensuring a cohesive vision from concept to delivery. This approach optimizes timelines, reduces costs, and enhances collaboration, resulting in innovative solutions tailored to your needs.
In the traditional route a consultant draws, the market prices, and the difference between the two becomes the client’s problem at tender. Under design and build the same firm carries both sides of that number. Buildability stops being an opinion offered after the fact and becomes a constraint on the drawing board, where changing it costs an afternoon rather than a variation order.
- RouteDesign and build, single point
- DesignConcept, developed, construction stage
- PricingOpen-book or lump sum
- OverlapEarly packages let before design freeze
- ChangeOne party absorbs coordination change
- OutputBuilt work plus matching as-builts
It begins as line-work
Concept stage is the cheapest place in the whole project to be wrong, so it is the right place to be wrong deliberately: test the massing, test the grid, test the thing the client actually asked for against the plot they actually own.
- Massing against the permit — plot coverage, setbacks and height are a constraint before they are a design
- Three options, priced, rather than one option and a hope
- The grid decided early: a column line moved after the frame is drawn moves the ductwork, the ceiling and the partition layout with it
Coordination is a drawing, not a meeting
Three disciplines drawing in the same volume will clash. The only question is whether they clash on a screen or on site, and the difference in cost between those two is roughly two orders of magnitude.
- Architecture, structure and MEP developed on one set of grids and levels
- Service zones reserved in section before the ceiling height is promised to anybody
- Clash resolution closed out on the drawing, with the resolution recorded so it is not re-opened on site
Then it gains mass
Construction-stage design is where a scheme meets what suppliers actually stock, what the crane can actually lift and what the municipality will actually approve. We would rather find that out while the drawing is still ours to change.
- Specified against available supply — a specification nobody in the Kingdom stocks is a programme risk wearing a product name
- Buildability review by the people who will build it, before it is issued
- Value engineering with the design intent intact: cheaper, not worse, and the client decides which
Design and construction overlap on purpose
The main advantage of carrying both halves is that they do not have to happen in series. Enabling works, piling and long-lead procurement can start against a frozen part of the design while the rest is still developing.
- Early packages released against drawings that are frozen, not against drawings that are hoped-for
- Long-lead items ordered on the information they actually need, which is rarely the full set
- One programme covering design and construction, so a design delay is visible as a construction delay the week it happens
The as-built matches the building
An as-built drawing that does not match the building is worse than none, because the next contractor believes it. Ours are produced by the people who installed the work and checked against what is on site.
- Surveyed, not redlined — service routes recorded where they were installed
- One document set at handover: as-builts, O&M, commissioning records, warranties
- Model and drawings handed over in a form the next fit-out can open
How the route runs
From brief to as-built
Six stages, with the point of no return marked. After stage four a change costs money; before it, a change costs an afternoon.
Brief and constraints
What you need, what the plot allows, what the authorities will approve, and what the budget actually is.
Concept and options
Massing and layout options, each priced, so the choice is made with a number beside it.
Developed design
One set of grids and levels for all three disciplines, with service zones reserved in section.
Approval and design freeze
Stamped submission through Balady, Civil Defence sign-off, and the drawing frozen for construction.
Construction
Built from our own drawings, with construction-stage design continuing on the packages still to be let.
Completion and record
Commissioning, occupancy certificate and an as-built set produced by the people who installed the work.
Scope
Both halves, one party
Carried by us
- Concept, developed and construction-stage design
- Structural and MEP engineering, coordinated
- Authority submissions through a licensed office
- Buildability and value engineering
- Procurement and subcontract packages
- Construction, site management, HSE and quality
- Testing and commissioning
- As-builts, O&M and warranties
Yours, or priced separately
- Independent client-side supervision, where you want one
- Statutory and utility fees
- Specialist consultants outside the agreed design scope
- Changes to the brief after the design freeze, which are priced as change
- Third-party certification you choose to pursue separately
What the route is worth
Three numbers that move
The design and the price come from the same party, so the tender gap — the difference between what was drawn and what the market will build it for — is ours to close, not yours to absorb.
Enabling works and long-lead procurement start against frozen packages while the rest of the design develops. The programme is shorter because the stages overlap, not because anything is rushed.
No drawing is handed from a party that drew it to a party that must price it. Every clash is resolved by the firm that has to live with the resolution.
Civil Construction
Substructure, frame and external works. The part of the building nobody photographs and everything else stands on.
Bring us the brief, not the drawings.
We would rather price what you need than what somebody else already drew.