Design-Assist
Chapel Electric’s team of designers and construction professionals have extensive experience working in a design-assist capacity for projects of various sizes and complexities. We can complete your design or work alongside your engineers to recommend design or material modifications aimed at streamlining execution and reducing costs.
By engaging our team in the early stages of a project, the design-assist approach allows us to bring our trade knowledge to bear on project designs. This methodology has been especially beneficial for us on complex projects in specialized environments—such as hospitals, manufacturing plants, and data centers—where our unique expertise is most valuable.
Our design-assist offerings include:
- Design consultation
- Procurement and material recommendation/selection to improve field installation efficiency
- Prefabrication considerations to reduce field labor
- Constructability consulting alongside the design team
- BIM coordination and VDC
- Life cycle planning
- Value engineering
- Schedule input
- Cost estimation and budget feedback as the design progresses
Benefits of the design-assist methodology include:
- Greater control of project costs and schedule
- Full coordination from design through construction
- Increased collaboration between trades for smooth delivery
- Streamlined communication and greater project transparency
- Fewer clashes and rework
- More opportunities for prefabrication
- Accelerated schedules