A30 Wednesday, April 28, 2010 • COMOX VALLEY RECORD

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New Clinic
Showcases Benefits of Design-Build
Sunrise Veterinary Clinic
opens its doors
at its new Comox location
this Friday

When Sunrise

for a Veterinary Clinic opens

its doors at its new Comox
bright location this Friday, it will
showcase a renovation
future project that perfectly
blends form and function.
ahead Upon entering, visitors
are greeted by a stunning
concrete and reclaimed
wood reception desk
2967C Kilpatrick Ave., Courtenay • 250-338-8839 (created by Live Edge
Design and Fusion
Concrete Design), beyond
DESIGN

which sites a stylish and

space-saving steel rail
door system leading to a
generous treatment area.
Even the flooring, an eco-
CONCRETE

friendly concrete-polymer
• Concrete Countertops blend that both looks and
• Custom Designs feels great, is innovative.
But while the new clinic
• Fabrication 250-218-6298 is certainly pleasing to the
• Installations
O
CO

eye, thanks in part to the

fusionconcretedesign@live.ca
P L U M B I N G
New Construction • Renovations • Heating
Darren Nelson
Phone: (250) 792-1344
completeplumbing@shaw.ca
L
T c r e at e d b y
D Veterinary Clinic was
Scott Shewfelt
Phone: (250) 792-1862
Fax: (250) 890-0953
inspired designs of Lindsay
McCotter of re:SOLVE
Space Planning, even more
interesting is how it was
created.
The design and
construction of Sunrise
coordinated by Capstone
Dwellings Design-Build,
a local firm that is
pioneering the design-build
movement in the Comox
Valley. With a design-build
construction firm, one team
Upon entering,
is hired to take a project
visitors are greeted by a
from design right through
to completion. The result
stunning concrete and
is shorter timelines, more reclaimed wood reception desk.
accountable budgeting and
fewer setbacks along the
way. Live Edge Design & Fusion Concrete Design
“Design-build has been
happening south of the
border for a long time,” with her husband Joe. Victoria because it offers
says Bethany Pearce, “It’s quickly becoming the a better experience for the
who operates Capstone new standard in cities like client.”
Dwellings Design-Build Vancouver, Calgary and continued on next page

“Wishing you
the best.”
Congratulations on your new clinic, 250-650-4044
oceansideelectric@shaw.ca
it’s been such fun working with you. ~ Residential ~ Commercial ~ Industrial ~
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Design-Build
Passes the Savings on to the Client
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In the conventional “Having a design-build firm
design-bid-build process, handle the entire project,”
a designer is hired
separately and produces
says Pearce,
a plan-of-action before “opens the door to more efficient
multiple builders bid on
the construction contract.
and creative problem solving
The ensuing relationship and helps ensure a faster project.”
between builder and
designer can often become
adversarial if the project
runs over budget, falls
behind schedule or hits
other snags. Such conflicts Sending
& Closets Wishes
leave the client stuck in !
the middle.
Having a design-build
firm handle the entire
for
project, says Pearce, helps
eliminate these conflicts, Unit #1 468 - 29th St.
Courtenay, BC
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opens the door to more
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problem solving and helps
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SUCCESS
ensure a faster project.
Because it allows
Joe and Bethany Pearce of Capstone Dwellings Design-Build
construction to begin
before the entire design groundbreaking, solution
has been finalized, the – straightforward pricing
design-build process also and creative sourcing of “What we do is
tends to shorten timelines.
As a case in point, the
materials.
“What we do is provide provide a flat fee
Sunrise Veterinary
Project, which consisted
a flat fee for design-
build services, then pass
for design-build services,
of interior and exterior whatever deals we get then pass whatever deals
design, demolition and
construction, didn’t
on supplies to the client,
without any mark-up,”
we get on supplies
begin until January, yet says Bethany. “This allows to the client,
the entire project was the whole team flexibility
completed just four months within the allocated budget without any mark-up,”
later.
“Faster decision-making
and keeps the accounting
open and transparent.
says Bethany.
turnarounds occur in “Our real-time
design-build because the accounting,” she continues, “This allows the whole team
builder and designer have
a team relationship,” says
“lets the client see exactly
where the budget is and
flexibility within
the allocated budget
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spent at any given time.”
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the traditional building
model, where the builder
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and often disparate parts
of the process.”
Proponents of the status Congratulations and Best Wishes
quo point to accessibility “Wishing
issues with the design-
build process, claiming that
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a separate designer and for your
builder keep each other
in check and prevent cost
Clinic”
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