Singular Responsibility
- A holistic approach to the entire landscape creation process from start to finish
- A turn-key service, with a single source responsibility, most effective in managing risks and prioritizing the interest of Client through life of a project
- The Client is not required during design and construction to coordinate or arbitrate between separate contracts or resolve budget and schedule conflicts
- Undivided responsibility for budget, schedule and quality of workmanship
- Avoid legal entanglements of adversarial relationships between design offices and contractors
- Reapply the benefits of cooperative efforts
Quality Control
- The singular responsibility that is inherent in design-build becomes a powerful motivator to provide top service throughout the process
- With undivided accountability, responsibility for defects or non-performance can never be shifted to another party
- Traditional methods rely upon restrictive contract language, adversarial audit, inspection and legal system to maintain quality
Early Identification of Costs
- Allows us to zoom in on the project’s cost early and significantly reduce change orders common to multi-party arrangements
- Guaranteed project performance before final acceptance
- Can accurately conceptualize project at early stages based on practical experience and internal feedback
- Terra Ferma Landscapes simultaneously estimates construction costs during design to maintain budget balance
- The decision to proceed with construction is made with firm knowledge of the project’s final cost and scope of work
Cost Savings
- Clients regularly updated about their project’s ongoing development status, so in-process and proactive cost saving decisions can be made easily
- Design and construction staff work as a team
- Ability to evaluate alternative designs, materials, and methods efficiently and accurately
- Value engineering and constructability are continuously and realistically considered
Time Savings
- Design and construction can be overlapped for streamlined delivery
- Materials can be procured early on when long lead times apply
- Time savings translate into lower costs
- Terra Ferma Landscapes can reduce the administrative burden because with design-build there is an in-house design advocate with an intimate understanding of the project’s vision and expectations
