Turnkey vs. The Traditional Route
Why one contract beats three.
The conventional path — an Architect for design, a PMC to coordinate, and a Contractor to build — splits one project across three firms with three commercial interests. Each is honest in isolation, but the gaps between them become your risk. Design is finished and tendered before a builder ever pressure-tests it for buildability or price, so cost surprises surface late, when changing course is most expensive. This is design-bid-build, and it is sequential by design.
Turnkey design-build overlaps the phases instead of queuing them. We can begin long-lead procurement, MEP coordination and site enabling works while detailing is still being finalised — an approach that typically moves clients into their new office around 17% faster than a fully sequential, three-vendor programme. You also get price certainty far earlier, because the team that prices the work is the team that has to build it. And when something needs to be resolved on site, there is no architect-versus-contractor finger-pointing to referee: the responsibility is already ours.