Our Process
The design/build approach to building joins professional design with construction expertise. TR Custom Works handles both the design and the construction aspects of your project. This allows you to enjoy a greater continuity of service. Linking design and construction streamlines your project, saves you time and money, and helps give you an active role in the construction or remodeling of your home.
Design/build ensures the convenience and consistency of working with one firm from start to finish. With your ideas and active participation, TR Customworks forms a personalized relationship with you to design a project that matches your goals to your budget and lifestyle. The design/build process is efficient, so your time and money are well spent. This is one-stop shopping at its best!
As the customer, you are the most important member of the design/build team. Your ideas and preferences help with the enhancement of the design, materials selection, and budget. Your specific design issues and desires are of the utmost concern. TR Custom Works has the building and design experience, knowledge, and skills to turn your ideas into reality. We can show you examples of similar projects and present a menu of economical, practical, and aesthetic solutions to common design problems. We can also assist you by offering opinions in the selection of materials and finishes that both represent good values and complete your vision.
1. Introduction & Assessment
The prospective client has a need for a building or remodeling project
- Client contacts TR Custom Works at 770.867.9115.
Brief Phone Interview
- During a telephone conversation we jointly decide if our strengths will match the prospective client’s needs and desires.
Initial Project Consultation Services
- A single project site meeting and consultation with client to do a preliminary site inspection, discuss possible designs and budget ranges.
2. Design Services
Preliminary Design
- Meetings with client, review code and municipal ordinances, review as-built measurements and drawings of home, and draft preliminary design drawings and concepts. Present preliminary concepts and drawings to the client, draft preliminary project budgets and pricing.
Refine Design
- Work with client to reduce design concepts and refine the design alongwith the budget, and work on determining the level of amenities and preliminary selection of products and finishes.
Final Design
- Work with the client to create the final design, specifications, and pricing of the project.
3. Build Services
Construction Preparation
- The construction phase of the project is scheduled and the client signs aconstruction agreement. TR Custom Works sets up permits, trade contractors, and materials to streamline the job.
Pre-Construction Meeting
- Our design and production team meet with the client for a pre-construction information exchange, moving the project from design to construction.
Construction
- Construction proceeds along agreed scope of work. TR Custom Works monitors the progress, minding the timeline and quality of construction.
Project Completion
- At completion, we inspect the project together with the client. Once the project is completed, TR Custom Works and the client close out the job and the warranty period begins.