During Construction It’s Decision Time, Again and Again

The design is complete, the shovels are in the ground. How are you planning to spend the next 12 to 18 months, while your new building takes shape?

If you thought you were going to be doing a lot of standing around, watching it take shape, then my guess is that this is your first building project. You, the owner, have a lot with which to occupy yourself between now and the Grand Opening.

Literally thousands of big and little decisions have yet to be made. Some decisions can’t be made in the near future, so your designer will have included infrastructure to allow you to leave them until well after the building is up and running. For example, flexible space may have been designed into your arena to allow for a future full-scale concessions operation. Or, to offer another common example, your rec center might be wired to allow for a variety of communications and security systems to be installed, as during design the decision has not yet been made about how extensive and what type of systems are needed. If something like the security system is excluded from the contract with your architect, you’ll be working with the security firm you hired, and then your architect, on everything related to the system’s selection, purchase and installation timing — which could take place after the building is completed.

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