The role of a design office goes beyond architectural design. It uses its past expertise to take the client’s position and propose various measures to move projects forward. We provide advice on how to stay within costs and construction schedules, and to raise added value, and we sometimes assist clients without providing designs.
In the building construction phase, we serve as the business owner’s representative to take the client’s position in coordinating between numerous stakeholders, in order to reach the most economical and rational results. We protect the client’s interests by establishing our third-party status, with the emphasis on transparency.
In construction projects, we serve as the business owner’s representative to take the client’s position in ongoing coordination between numerous stakeholders, in order to protect the client’s interests by reaching the most economical and rational results.
To ensure the quality of buildings, we perform preliminary surveys of site potential, consider buildings which can potentially be planned, evaluate written proposals from construction companies, and check aspects such as designs, applications, costs, and processes. At the construction works stage, we also provide services such as checking the content and progress of works, attending inspection and after-service meetings, and assessing costs related to additions and changes.
For buildings with fixed specifications, such as convenience stores, we can rapidly create different variations of BIM models, on demand, by selecting and exchanging basic parts. This enables clients to accelerate business expansion and cut costs through bulk ordering.
We advance management operations while establishing and building up expertise in mega solar projects using the renewable energy feed-in tariff (FIT), and apply our design abilities, in order to provide design and advice about energy-saving Japanese devices and systems for overseas projects. That work advances projects which spread and source such devices and systems for overseas use.
We propose lifespan extension measures which add or remove functions in order to adapt to changes in the social environment. We provide total consulting, which includes forecasting of business income and expenditure and long-term usage, and covers changes in customer segments, adaptation to family customers, and appropriate facility operation, from the energy-saving perspective.
In the course of PFI / PPI business implementation, we serve as a technical adviser to examine various project schemes and tendering procedures, draw up contract documents, and assist in scrutiny and contract tasks. After contracts are signed, we support discussions of all kinds to move the project forward, smoothly and reliably.
