THE DIRECT REPORT

JUNE 2024

The team at Direct Steel and Construction is eager to provide value engineered recommendations and vast experience to your project as a Construction Solutions Provider.

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Budgeting Your Construction Project

If you’re a business owner considering a construction project, you’ll need to navigate a multitude of moving parts. A critical consideration is the project budget. It’s essential for stakeholders to be familiar with the organization’s goals and to work with an experienced and knowledgeable team to achieve them.

Establishing a construction budget using a team approach involves collaboration among the owner, architect/engineer, construction manager, and other stakeholders.

  1. Assemble the Team
  2. Define Project Goals and Scope
  3. Conduct Preliminary Planning
  4. Develop Preliminary Budget
  5. Refine Project Plans
  6. Value Engineering
  7. Finalize the Budget
  8. Monitor and Adjust
  9. Maintain Open Communication

Read more about each of the steps above.

Contact Direct Steel and Construction to learn more about our proven processes for establishing a construction budget. Through clear communication, collaborative planning, and regular monitoring, we help you create a realistic and well-managed budget that supports the successful completion of your project.

COMPANY NEWS

Rendering of the renovated Mothers Milk Bank facility with a landscaped entrance

Mothers’ Milk Bank of the Western Great Lakes collects, pasteurizes, and dispenses donor human milk to premature and critically ill babies. They also distribute donor milk to outpatients and support donor families, including those who are donating after loss. Direct Steel and Construction is honored to oversee the renovation of a building which will house their newest operation. Near completion, the facility will encompass offices; labs; freezing, thawing, and pasteurizing zones; storage and warehouse areas; and donor spaces. The largest room is reserved for a bereavement memorial called Poppy’s Dream to honor the babies lost by the donor families.

Visit the Project Portfolio page of our website.

Creating a building that meets your needs is the goal of Direct Steel and Construction.

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Direct Steel and Construction is a Construction Solutions Provider and has delivered great experiences for industrial, commercial, and government clients. Our team provides services which facilitate optimal end results including Strategic Facility Planning, Facility Assessment, Budgeting, Estimating, and Project Management throughout construction. Clients benefit from cost effective, aesthetically pleasing, energy efficient and environmentally sound buildings that facilitate a relationship among people, technology and space.

General Contractor

As a General Contractor, we work in cooperation with architects, designers, and end users in order to integrate the optimal technology into well-designed new buildings, additions, repairs, and remodeling.

Construction Management

As Construction Managers we provide budget analysis, facilitation of permit applications, preliminary scheduling, securing competitive trade contractor bids, clarification of scope, and we maintain and monitor oversight through final construction.

Owner's Representative

We proudly represent businesses as they seek to build or expand. We look at the customer’s design idea and align with constructability and budget in addition to other considerations. (ie. entitlement, incentives, etc.)

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