Heartland Group LLC personnel have experience and are comfortable with any of the three basic methods of project delivery involving professional design and construction services. The methods are: 1) the Traditional Method, 2) the Construction Management Method and 3) the Design/Build Method.

In the Traditional Method the owner engages an Architect to design the project and produce the necessary Contract documents for bidding to a number of General Contractors. In the Construction Management Method, the Owner hires both an Architect and a Construction Manager to work together evaluating the project program, perform early budget projections and do value engineering and cost analyses of various means, materials and methods to be incorporated into the project design, and the Construction manager assists the Owner in soliciting and analyzing bids for all phases of the works. The Owner then awards a prime contract to each trade, instead of having one prime contract with a General Contractor. In the Design/Build Method, the owner selects a Contractor and an Architect to work together in much the same way as the Construction Manager and Architect do, analyzing methods and materials and budgets during the design process, but the Owner has one contract for (typically) a Guaranteed Maximum Price, instead of many prime contracts as in the CM method. Each method has its advantages and disadvantages, and we will be happy to explain these to you.

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