The problem
Construction needs a design, and a design needs to know what is actually wrong. If neither exists yet, there is nothing responsible to award this week. Rushing a construction contract to beat the deadline is how owners end up with change orders all next year.
What can move fast
Study and assessment work does not need a construction window or a finished design. It needs a clear scope and a site to walk. That makes it a good fit for the last week of the year.
Facility condition assessments
We walk the campus and grade every deficiency in architecture, mechanical, plumbing, electrical and structure, with a photo and a cost estimate for each. We have done this for the VA at Reno, and at Sacramento, Martinez, McClellan and Mare Island under a single task order. The report is a priced list you can build a capital plan from.
Feasibility studies
Before committing capital to something large, find out if it works. At the Reno VA a test well and thermal testing answered whether geothermal heating was viable before anyone paid for a system.
Seismic evaluations
An evaluation to ASCE 41 and the VA seismic handbook tells you whether a building needs targeted bracing, a structural retrofit or something bigger, before you spend construction money guessing.
Retrocommissioning
Tuning the systems a building already has is often the cheapest energy reduction available, and a retrocommissioning study puts a number on it.
Why it pays
Each of these turns into a defensible capital request with real numbers behind it. The money you spend this September is what gets next year's project funded, designed and built without surprises. If you have funds left this week, call us.