Cranshaw has constructed thousands of multi-family housing units using Energy Star and LEED design and construction methods, and have achieved LEED Gold and Platinum certification on close to twenty projects in the Greater Boston area. We are experienced managing…
Virtual Design Construction & Building Information Modeling
Virtual Design and Construction (VDC) and Building Information Modeling (BIM) are essential tools in modern construction management, providing numerous benefits to clients and subcontractors throughout the construction process. During estimating, VDC and BIM allow us to create 3D models…
ESTIMATING AND PRECONSTRUCTION
Our pre-construction team is typically involved in the very early stages of a project and is accustomed to working with the Owners’ interests in mind. Our staff is highly qualified and detail-oriented. We attend design meetings on a regular basis with our clients on all project types and are pro-active in suggesting early solutions to mitigate risk, delay and cost overruns. Our experience working…
CONSTRUCTION SCHEDULING
Our first goal would be to understand any budgets and schedules that might have been done previously and to bring our expertise on projects of a wide variety of size, building type, and construction type to bear when creating a master project schedule for any project. We are very active in the market and keep a deep data base of cost and delivery data that help ensure that our schedules are accurate given any current market…
Value Engineering/Risk Management
Subsequent to updating the budget and schedule we would provide pricing updates at the Design Development and GMP stages. Pricing will be reconciled against previous pricing and value engineering techniques will be employed as needed. Between the design milestones we anticipate attending design meetings and providing estimating and schedule updates to assist the…