Design Build
You have a space and an idea. What you need is one company to take it from concept to keys.
TBI Management handles the drawings, the permits, the budget and the build under a single contract. One team. One point of accountability. No gap between the person who designed it and the crew who has to build it.
That gap is where most commercial projects lose their money. You pay for a set of plans, send them out to three contractors, and every number comes back past what you had in mind. Now you are paying to redesign what you already paid to design, and your lease clock has been running the whole time.
Our design build service removes that risk entirely, because the people pricing the job are the people drawing it.
We work with a roster of architects, designers and engineers we deal with every week, and subtrades we have used for years. Plus, our owner is personally involved in every project we take on, so when you call with a hard question, you reach the person who can answer it.
What We Handle on a Design Build Project
Most owners do not want to manage a construction project. They want to open a business. That’s where we come in to manage the whole thing, from the first walkthrough to the day you unlock the door.
That means we are the ones chasing the designer, sitting in the permit queue, sourcing the trades and standing on the site. You get one contract and one company answerable for:
- Site assessment and space planning
- Architectural, design and engineering coordination
- Budgets and costed design options
- Permit applications and code compliance
- Trade procurement and scheduling
- Full time site supervision
- Weekly progress reporting
- Deficiency completion, inspections and handover
You decide how involved you want to be. Some clients want a Monday morning report and nothing else. Others walk the site every week and want to see every invoice. We make both work.
What does not happen is a problem being handled quietly and dropped on you once it has already cost you money.
Why Businesses Choose TBI for Design Build
Every contractor will tell you they finish on time and on budget. What actually separates them is how the project runs when something unexpected shows up, because on a commercial build something always does.
Our approach changes how all of that gets handled:
- One number to call. No arguing between a designer and a builder while you pay for the delay.
- Real pricing before you commit. You see costs while the design is still on paper and still cheap to change.
- A faster schedule. We start permits, long lead orders and trade booking before the drawings are finished.
- Fewer change orders. Our design team and our site team talk daily, because we carry the cost when they do not.
- Trades we trust. Long standing subtrades held to the standard we use on our own buildings.
- Straight answers. Including the bad ones. A problem raised in week two costs a fraction of the same problem in week twelve.
We have been doing this in BC for decades, and we do not call a project finished until the client says it is.
Start Your Design Build Project
Bring us a floor plan, a lease you are about to sign, or nothing but an idea and a budget you can live with. The consultation is free and there is no obligation.
We will tell you straight what your project takes, what it costs, and what needs to change if the two do not line up.
