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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I live in AU park. All the houses I see with Case design signs out front seem to be under construction forever. We did a major renovation with an architect and a builder. Have you considered not using a design build firm?[/quote]

Do you know what type of renovations they are doing? Major renovations take time - especially if there is a lot of internal work being done. In our case load bearing walls were removed, new supporting structures had to be in place before any work was done. The demo took one day, building up takes time - drywall, electrical, plumbing all have to been done in a particular order and often multiple waves of stuff has to be done. We are actually well AHEAD of schedule for our major renovation. They have a very tight schedule and work with their numerous teams to push when they are behind schedule to ensure we stay on track. The advantage of Design Build is you have one group very aware of the project - from start to finish. We did another project (not same scale as this) in our house with an architect and builder it took much longer to accomplish the project than what we have experienced so far with a full design build team. It is MORE expensive - people have sticker shock. BUT if you add up all of the other things that go into a major renovation project and the surprises that can come if its not well thought out you can end up with more expenses than you expected. [/quote]

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