Planning & Construction Advisory Services / Owner’s Representative

Owner’s Representative Constructability Reviews

An Integrated Review

Project team structures often limit any single party’s ability to fully evaluate design approaches. Consultants and contractors review plans through their own individual lens. Architects may weigh cost impacts but not prioritize them as owners would, while construction managers suggest changes for efficiency without considering the design vision architects aim to preserve.

YA Group provides constructability reviews as part of its standard owner’s representative services, as well as on an independent basis to owners, architects, engineers, construction managers, and contractors. Our goal is to identify the weighted attributes stakeholders value and assess risks to maximize success for a given planning or design approach. This requires an integrated review of the design and its project variables.

Enabling Project Harmony

The goal of YA Group’s constructability review services is to enable project harmony. Project harmony is recognized when there is alignment between the owner, design team, and build team. YA’s process is scalable and can be used to assess the quality of a drawing package, offer constructability guidance, provide potential cost and schedule saving opportunities, and maximize value as part of a value engineering process.

In reviewing the planning and design documents on a project, regardless of its maturation standpoint, including programming, concept, schematic design, design development, and construction documents, YA Group recognizes that owner timelines for design and construction are often condensed and intended to minimize RFIs and change orders. By performing an integrated design review as part of the constructability review process, YA Group generates a list of conflicts and gaps in the design approach that should be resovled before advancing a project to bid.

Far-Reaching Impacts

YA delivers an itemized list through our constructability reviews, which includes conflicts in the design package, gaps in design, areas of cost and schedule, and guidance on design details that may present constructability challenges.

There are several other far-reaching benefits from this process, including:

Achieving tightly grouped bid results
Reducing construction administration costs
Minimizing change orders
Maintain strong relationships with subconsultants
Maintain a strong relationship between the owner, design team, and build team
Serve as a “training aid” for younger design professionals by helping them to understand areas of focuson future projects
Assist the owner in maximizing scope while reducing pricing associated with perceived risk
Identification and review of code-related issues
Potential expedited reviews through Authorities Having Jurisdiction (AHJ)