What attracted us to them is that they are a design and build practice, they sold us on the fact they would be doing the building work and this was why scheduling would take 18m to get in their ‘queue’ of work.
We’d have to take their plans to another practice, which I can’t imagine would be that appealing and then do the whole tender process and get a QS etc. all of which is expense and effort we hadn’t planned for with their more turnkey solution.
Well the big delay has already taken place but also the last 7m they have more or less just lead us on firstly by carrying on for original date, then saying work would be started in summer and now saying they cannot even complete the stage 4 drawings until summer!
What attracted us to them is that they are a design and build practice, they sold us on the fact they would be doing the building work and this was why scheduling would take 18m to get in their ‘queue’ of work.
We’d have to take their plans to another practice, which I can’t imagine would be that appealing and then do the whole tender process and get a QS etc. all of which is expense and effort we hadn’t planned for with their more turnkey solution.