We price buildings while they are still drawings. Real quantities taken off the architect’s plans, sent to named suppliers months before anyone goes to tender.
Be in that document and the specification is written around your product. Miss it and you are one of three quotes a builder is trying to beat down.
A builder with three quotes in front of him is not choosing anything. He is pricing a decision that was made months earlier, in a room you were not in. From there his job is to find something cheaper that will pass. Usually he can.
The homeowner engages us and pays us. We take no commission, no placement fee and no margin on your product. Suppliers will never pay us. Not to be listed, not to be specified, not when a plan converts. What goes in a document is decided by the project, the price and the lead time. There is nothing here to buy.
Not compared on price at the end. Written in at the start, with your lead time and hold period beside your figure.
We measure from the architect’s drawings, so what reaches you is a schedule, not a homeowner guessing at square metres.
When a plan does not convert we tell you what it went to and on what grounds. Nobody else in this chain does that.
Pricing a schedule is not a quotation and creates no commitment on either side.
Price the schedule as you would price a real enquiry, and tell us honestly how long the figure stands. A thirty day hold stated plainly is worth more to us than six months we cannot rely on.
When a window closes, the plan says so rather than carrying the number forward as though it were still true. That protects your figure as much as the client’s budget.
Stop bidding at tender. Get specified at design. Four questions below, and we come back within the week.
info@arko.buildRight now the cost conversation happens at the end, and you defend a figure you gave before you knew anything. It does not have to.
Price the envelope while it is still a drawing and that conversation moves to the front. You design against real figures. Your client gets a number with working behind it. Nothing has to be walked back six months later.
We are early, and you would be putting your name to that. Which is why you get the same document as your client, at the same time. Nothing reaches them that you have not already seen, and if we think the timing is wrong you hear it from us before they ring you.
Thirty minutes on a call and we take you through a real cost plan, page by page. Four questions below. Practices that come in early get first access to the tools we are building, and a say in what goes into them.
info@arko.buildThe bridge between design and build
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