Planning

Ben Franklin warned, “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”

Like these examples, you might be planning to build housing, enlarge a school, expand a historic church, insert an industrial complex into a residential district, create a new commercial district, or attach a new building to a campus landmark.

Whatever the scale, your mission, and the design that will realize it, merits an attentive launch. Project planning gathers pertinent information and options, helps you identify consultants and builders, forecasts costs and schedules, and protects the success of the venture.

In fact, we start with Pre-Planning: Getting you all the documents about the place, laws, surroundings, process, pictures – whatever you’ll need to start to plan.  That way, with our help, you can quickly and confidently decide what you’ll be doing, when, what could get in the way, and what to do about it.

David Paul Helpern, FAIA