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Clients can achieve significant savings in their building project by involving BlueScope Buildings in early concept development.

Clients can achieve significant savings in their building project by involving BlueScope Buildings in early concept development.

The company’s early involvement with the client’s chosen architect and/or design firm in the planning and design phase can help to maximise efficiencies and improve the payback period.

Clients can achieve significant efficiencies in three important areas:

Value engineering and design

  • BlueScope will work with the client to understand all aspects of their business processes, including bays / modules, insurance requirements, assembly sequencing, erectability and safety, and design an optimal framing solution. The company can efficiently design and detail a building envelope
  • Standardise value engineered designs and create building prototypes to continue to provide overall cost reductions
  • Focus on optimising in-place cost solutions, because BlueScope control engineering and fabrication and understand the assembly process

Timing and schedule improvements

  • A timely engineering start instead of waiting weeks to run a bid process
  • Improved building design and layout, including optimal framing solutions and better construction schedules
  • Shorter schedules to allow for lower construction financing costs

Savings on materials

  • Early availability of anchor bolt reactions, allowing foundation design engineers to design to specific reactions versus a conservative design approach to accommodate unknown reactions
  • An owner-supplied scope, which eliminates or reduces the general contractor mark-up on the building envelope scope of work

Project savings

  • Competitively priced engineering, because it is priced into the product instead of the sole product
  • Streamlined engineering costs: The EPC or Design Institute structural design and bidding process often results in paying twice for engineering, which can be $50,000 to $200,000

These efficiencies allow clients to get a premium product at less than market transaction rates.