Our onsite design workshop with director of architecture Jim kicks off your project with us. Jim will attend your property/site to review with you the existing conditions, and to walk the course in conversation with you about what you can achieve. Then Jim will sit with you to review the feasibility of your design brief, and to sketch out by hand initial design concepts. For this you should prepare roughly 3-4 hours of your time, and all you need to bring with you is your thoughts and your vision.

Following Jim’s visit with you, we will carry out a more extensive review of local authority planning / building regulation requirements to ensure feasibility and to complete a report in PDF format. This will include our initial appraisal conversations, the outcome of the onsite workshop designs, a clearly defined route to getting you to onsite construction, as well as our estimation of construction costs - defined by our cost analysis and construction consultant team. The costs associated with the design options for your project will enable you to consider and decide on the approach you want to take. The problem with working with an architect only at this stage is that you don’t have cost certainty this early on. While the costs we provide are estimates, they will be precise so as to provide you with the certainty you need to decide on a design to take forward.

That’s what makes us different. As a client, risk is your primary consideration – and cost is at the top of the list. When you work with us, we remove the risk of proceeding without cost certainty, using our experience and expertise to provide you with an accurate range of construction costs against initial hand sketch designs that enable you to proceed in an informed and risk-free manner. We guarantee that these costs are carefully considered, and given our due diligence, so that your end of your project costs can be very closely aligned to what we set out at this stage.