What can Integrated Construction Solutions do for you?

When you determine a need for project, ICS can help you reach sound decisions in such areas as:

• General project characteristics and performance requirements.
• Site analysis and selection.
• Lead in forming a collaborative team of professionals.
• Coordination with ongoing activities and other public and community concerns to minimize interruptions.
• Assistance in getting your project approved by local planning and community development departments.
• Represent you at public hearing and meetings
• Development of a preliminary budget and comprehensive master schedule.
• Apportionment of general funding among a number of individual projects according to specific project needs.
• Establishment of a management information and reporting system to meet your requirements.
• Development of detailed and complete bid documents to assure timely, responsive and comparable bids, while avoiding questions and protests.
• Assistance in reviewing and analyzing bids and selecting contractors.

In the design phase, ICS can help you:

• Ensure that design is both aesthetically successful and responsive to project goals.
• Perform life-cycle cost analyses and other reviews to maximize the return on your construction investment.
• Coordinate your technology implementation strategy with your construction plan to assure that your finished project will truly be equipped to support current and future needs.
• Develop a detailed design schedule and supervise its implementation.
• Review design in progress to assure constructibility with minimal changes and fewer problems in the field.
• Develop detailed component cost estimates at every design submittal.
• Provide options and alternates for savings if desired

During the bid process, ICS can:

• Conduct pre-bid conferences to clarify the project’s needs and assure responsive bids.
• Assure that all bid documents are clear and all questions are answered.
• Help you evaluate and compare bids.
• Recommend Value Engineering options to reduce costs if necessary
• Recommend bidders for contract award.

While the construction is underway, ICS will be your eyes and ears—and most of all, your advocate. We will:

• Assure that all contractors, subcontractors and other participants fully understand the project’s design and requirements at every stage.
• Deliver timely and clear reports to you concerning construction progress, milestones, and other elements.
• Manage the change order process for maximum effectiveness while minimizing delay and costs.
• Monitor the construction process to anticipate difficulties, resolve issues early, and keep the work flowing.
• Administer progress payments to assure that work milestones are being met and that all current expenses are paid in a timely manner.
• Assure that the contractor provides a safe workplace, both for project workers and, in renovations, for individuals who continue to use the facility during construction.
• Eliminate the need to retain increased staff after the "burst" of construction activities; thereby reducing future operating and payroll costs when the construction has been completed.
• Perform a building "commissioning" to ensure that all components are operating as intended.
• Coordinate the final stages of construction, including contractors’ punch lists and similar tasks that must be completed, often in a very compressed time period, before your project is closed out.

After construction is complete, ICS can:

• Conduct 6 month and 11 month walkthroughs to ensure that everything is working as intended and all warranty items are corrected.
• Provide ongoing support for any needs you may have.