Preconstruction & Estimating
Preconstru ction & Estimating
Successful projects begin long before construction starts. Early alignment between scope, budget, logistics, and sequencing creates a more predictable path to delivery and reduces uncertainty throughout the construction process. Franjo Construction approaches preconstruction as an active collaboration between ownership, design teams, trade partners, and field leadership — ensuring decisions are grounded in constructability, market conditions, and real-world execution experience.
Preconstruction Planning
Planning begins early through continuous coordination with owners, architects, engineers, consultants, and utility providers to evaluate constructability, logistics, phasing, procurement strategy, and scheduling before drawings are finalized. Site logistics planning, access management, procurement timelines, utility coordination, permit support, and preconstruction scheduling are developed alongside the design process to identify critical path items early and establish clear accountability across the entire project team.
Franjo works closely with ownership teams to define responsibilities, track deliverables, and maintain visibility into permitting requirements, utility company coordination, long-lead procurement items, and jurisdictional approvals that can directly impact project timelines. Rather than treating preconstruction as a standalone estimating exercise, the process is integrated with field operations to ensure designs reflect how projects will actually be built in active jobsite conditions.
This approach is especially valuable within adaptive reuse, occupied renovation, and phased construction environments where early planning directly impacts schedule performance and operational continuity. Projects such as the Uber ATG Crucible Building and Rockwell Park required detailed coordination around existing conditions, active infrastructure, multi-phase sequencing, permitting, and utility coordination long before construction activities began.
Construction Cost Estimating
Cost development is continuously refined as projects evolve from conceptual planning through final design. Budgets are developed using live market data, trade partner engagement, procurement feedback, and active project experience rather than relying solely on historical assumptions.
In many cases, project teams are working to maintain alignment with development proformas and financing structures, making early cost validation critical to maintaining project feasibility. Franjo regularly engages qualified subcontractors and key trade partners early in the process to establish a realistic basis of design, validate system selections, confirm constructability, and identify opportunities to improve efficiency before procurement and construction begin.
This estimating approach supports consistency and predictability across fast-track developments, multi-site rollout programs, adaptive reuse projects, and large-scale commercial renovations where schedule and budget certainty are essential to project success.
Value Analysis & Budget Control
Value analysis is integrated throughout design development to maintain alignment between project goals, constructability, and budget expectations. Materials, building systems, sequencing strategies, procurement approaches, and scheduling impacts are evaluated in real time to identify efficiencies while maintaining quality, operational requirements, and overall project intent.
Direct coordination between estimating, operations, scheduling, and field leadership strengthens decision-making throughout the process. Real-time field feedback and active construction experience help validate design assumptions, improve coordination between trades, and reduce downstream changes during construction. This approach is particularly effective on accelerated and complex renovation projects where maintaining schedule certainty and cost control requires continuous collaboration between design and field execution teams.