Construction, with the owners on site

Construction is the part of the build you can see. By the time it starts, most of the decisions that shape it have already been made in design, budget, and preconstruction. What is left is the work itself, and who is watching it.

Who runs your job

A superintendent runs the day to day with the trades. Nick is on site multiple times a week regardless, walking the project and staying close to the people doing the work. He handles the schedule, the sequencing, and the field decisions, and he is in direct contact with you throughout construction. You do not get an account manager or a rotating coordinator.

Christina walks projects regularly to check progress, quality, and coordination. She works directly with subcontractors to confirm the standard is being met and follows decisions through to completion. Between the two of them, both owners are on every home we build.

The trades

Long-standing trade relationships are the difference between a plan on paper and a house that is built right. Some builders put every scope out to bid and take the lowest number each time, which means a new crew on every job, learning the standard on your house. The plumber, the framer, the tile setter, the millwork shop on our jobs are people we have worked with for years, through good weeks and hard ones.

What stretches a build

Weather, inspections, and late decisions are what stretch construction. The first two are mostly out of anyone's hands. The third is not, which is why so much of our process happens before construction starts. Some costs are found, not chosen: excavation can turn up rock or poor soil, and on a renovation the same thing lives inside the walls. Nobody can promise there is nothing in the ground. What we can do is look early, name the unknowns in writing before you sign, and carry a realistic allowance for them.

When you want to add something

Partway through a build you see the house standing, and the ideas come. Adding is fine. It is your house. When a client brings us something new, the team gets together, works out the best way to get it done, and tries to keep it inside the budget. Scope outside the original plan adds cost, and we would rather say that plainly before the work than explain it after.

We keep our project volume low on purpose so this level of attention is possible on every home. See how to evaluate a custom home builder in Arizona for the questions worth asking any builder.