Pre-construction is where trust gets built or broken. Our process is designed to listen first, educate at every step, and produce a strategy the entire team is genuinely excited to execute. The budget is the output. The relationship is the point.
We join the project at schematic design, before the drawings are complete. Using NOVATERRA, our proprietary cost platform with 40 years of Hudson Valley construction data, we produce an extremely detailed line-item budget that gives the design team real cost intelligence from day one. No ROMs pulled from a book. Real numbers from real projects.
Proprietary software, built for this. NOVATERRA contains a cost database informed by four decades of Hudson Valley construction. Its AI cost intelligence engine analyzes project parameters against historical data, local labor rates, and material markets. The result is pre-construction budgeting that gets within single-digit percentages of final cost, months before most contractors can produce their first number.
When value engineering is required, the software surfaces tactical alternatives with cost impacts calculated in real time, not days later. This is not off-the-shelf estimating. This is a competitive advantage our clients get from day one.
Your vision, your budget, your timeline. We listen before we estimate. The process is built around your goals, not our convenience.
No black-box budgeting. We walk you through each line item so you know exactly what is driving cost and where tradeoffs live. Educated clients make faster, better decisions.
We produce options, not ultimatums. By the time we reach GMP, you have a plan you are genuinely excited about. Not a number you are hoping holds up.