Value Added Services
It's about more than the building.
We support our clients with additional services that increase efficiency, safety, and satisfaction.
Pre-Construction Services
Your project has unique demands. A general contractor that is eager to listen, willing to collaborate, and ready to innovate can meet those requirements.
We bring together a team of experts — including project executives, project managers, superintendents, and estimators — to plan and execute creative, cost-effective build plans, and work methods that meet your project's objectives. Your pre-construction team is the same team assigned to your project throughout construction, providing accountability and continuity.
Value Engineering
Value Engineering is a process to ensure that our clients realize the most value for each dollar spent. At Wehr Constructors, value engineering is engaged as a continuing, participatory process to provide our clients and the design team with detailed information allowing the best decision to be made for each project.
Scheduling
Maximize control of your project during pre-construction and deliver to everyone a roadmap for success with a comprehensive construction schedule.
We work directly with project managers and superintendents on scheduling, phasing, and managing subcontractors on each project. We review and update the schedule on a regular basis throughout the project, and the schedule status is analyzed during each project meeting. This results in a realistic total project schedule, and a clear understanding of the deliverables and tasks associated with everyone on the project, including you.
Maximizing Your Budget.
The number one service that previous clients valued from Wehr Constructors when polled was the accuracy of budgeting. In addition to our preconstruction team, our Estimating Department will devote all their resources,which include a historical cost database of every project Wehr has built, to providing comprehensive cost analysis of design documents at each phase of the process (SD, DD, CD).
Budgeting & Estimating
Smarter estimates give our clients peace of mind that their budgets will be acknowledged and preserved. We compare our in-house estimates to national estimating databases to ensure the estimate’s accuracy.
Mechanical, electrical, and plumbing work can represent as much as 55% of the total construction cost of a project. We verify the accuracy of subcontractors’ bids and scope allocation and prepare a detailed estimate for this work.
Most of our client agreements are Guaranteed Maximum Price. On each of these assignments, 100% of the savings are returned to the client.
Tax Exempt Purchase Management
When you're a non-profit, every dollar counts toward making a difference. That includes the dollars you save through tax-exempted major construction material and equipment purchases.
Our staff works with your non-profit accounting staff to ensure compliance with all regulatory procedures and controls, saving you money and alleviating the tax-exempt purchase management burden from your team.
Quality Control Measures
There is a great deal at stake in your project. You deserve a construction firm that understands the challenges present in your project and is committed to meeting and overcoming them with safe, innovative, and efficient solutions.
Our Project Quality Control begins with a clear understanding of the expectations for each of the various elements that define the goals for the project. The project team:
- Conducts pre-installation meetings
- Reviews mock-ups and submittals
- Implements quality control meetings
- Reviews work in place for conformance
- Ensures that any non-conforming items are corrected
This team also works with testing firms, inspection agencies, and authorities having jurisdiction.
Post Construction Process
Finally, we develop a custom training and maintenance program for our client’s facility management team. This ensures that the client has a new or renovated facility and an intimate knowledge of the building components.
Our corporate philosophy and work processes ensure quality at every stage of a project.
- Total Quality Management (TQM)
- In-House Quality Control Inspections
- Construction Sequence Control
- Final Inspections and System Check
The successful completion of a construction project is highly dependent on continuity, which is why all of our key team members remain active on the project and on-site until the project is complete.
Sustainable & Healthy Building Practices.
Sustainable building practices will ensure a higher quality facility, lower operating cost, and a best-in-class environment for the present and future generations. This includes all building types and all building phases including new construction, interior fit outs, operations and maintenance and core and shell.
LEED
LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) is the world's most widely used green building rating system. LEED certification provides a framework for healthy, highly efficient, and cost-saving green buildings, which offer environmental, social and governance benefits. Its a globally recognized symbol of sustainability achievement, and it is backed by an entire industry of committed organizations and individuals paving the way for market transformation.
We have significant experience with geothermal solutions as a method of energy use reduction. We explore a variety of ways to minimize the environmental impact including reuse of building material and incorporation of local and regional material.
We are committed to sustainability. Wehr Constructors, Inc. is an advocate, as well as an advisor, on renewable energy sources and waste management solutions. In addition, we provide an air quality protocol during and post-construction.
Environment of Care/Infection Control
When it comes to healthcare, we believe every environment in your facility is an "environment of care." All members of our team are trained and experienced in Indoor Air Quality Control, Interim Life Safety, and Infection Control measures.
The Environment of Care program is implemented and reviewed daily by site supervisors, field engineers, and project managers. This program integrates infection control techniques of each facility with our proven measures of airborne contaminate control and best practice methods of infection control.