Design-Build + Design-Assist

Our professional engineers, senior designers and BIM/VDC specialists bring decades of experience and dedication to every design-build and design-assist project. Whether we are designing from a blank canvas or working on an existing design or building, budgeting is essential and key to our process. Throughout design and execution, we are continuously estimating and analyzing cost and schedule to demonstrate how different design opportunities will affect budget, timelines, building performance and occupant experience.

Design-Build

When Harris leads design-build projects, we start from scratch, taking complete responsibility for the design and the budget, while working closely with all the trades. From design through execution, we incorporate BIM/VDC to develop the layout, choose the systems, plan installations and manage on-site productivity and costs.

The Design Studio gives focus to design within Harris and allows our in-house designers to work with the architect and other specialists permitting an interactive approach to resolve challenges through exploring different options which meet or potentially exceed desired outcomes. Alongside this somewhat traditional design path, the fluid communication in Harris allows early real-time cost assessment and tracking against the budget, rather than waiting for cost estimates to be undertaken at the end of each design stage.

Design-Assist

When Harris works in a design-assist capacity, we start with a partial or completed design. Our objective is to recommend design or material modifications that will boost energy efficiency, streamline execution, reduce costs or increase occupant comfort. The process is highly collaborative, typically involving architects, engineers, owners, project managers, fabricators, field personnel and subcontractors.