1) Those offering the cheap price... by hiring the cheapest labor, buying the cheapest materials, and taking whatever shortcut can be gotten away with concerning the client and/or building code. Many times a great manager, but seems to have lots of problems keeping the same subcontractors constantly working and happy and turning out a consistent highly warrantable product. 2) Master Bull-Shipper (only real skill): purposely absent the majority of construction duration, so that subcontractors must make the decisions for themselves, and then blaming all the continuous mistakes and delays on subcontractors, suppliers, and the owner. This style of management often times, puts the subcontractors in compromising positions with the owners asking questions. These people also take whatever shortcut can be gotten away with, concerning the client and/or building code. 3) One who... after many years of stereotypical "hands-on experience" (one could have been working in the industry for thirty years, and still cannot lay the structure out correctly and make things plumb, level, and square themselves) has gained a suntan and a reputation of charisma concurrent within a given price range, project magnitude, and industry standards. (All may be qualities of a general contractor, but not to be confused with the full qualifications of a master builder.) Should these marketers participate in debates, just as our Presidential candidates do? (Calculators, CAD, 32oz. hammers, tennis shoes on top of the walls, boots down in the hole, drafting machines, site layout equipment, and resources are now in session.) |
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For clarification of the misrepresentation, of effectiveness and ultimate uselessness, of the value in a dollar per square footage question, when asked by a client/general contractor to a builder/subcontractor when a model/project has not been defined in whole... These are finished products: (all approx. 72 square feet)
Ask Hyundai, to quote you a price per square foot, to build one of their cheapest cars, in your garage, while you take your time, deciding...... where the instruments are located,.. what the shifting patterns of the stick shift are,.. the tread patterns on the tires,.. the compounds used in the tire rubber,.. structural engineers to engineer in the least frame flex (or an exact amount desired),.. while maximizing optimum weight distribution,.. getting with the interior decorators,.. Paxton supercharger?,.. steel braided brake lines?,.. ventilated disc brakes?,.. car automation system designers & installers,... and an aerodynamics team (complete with wind testing, in your own backyard, and the test data displayed on your wide plasma screen digital TV, while you lounge in the reclining theater seats, in your media room)? The truth is...that Ferrari, Porsche, and Mercedes dealerhships don't even sell a cars as expensive as what Hyundai would charge you to build a car the same way as the architectural building industry is accustomed to building real estate projects today. While some automobile manufacturers offer customized services, these services are preconfigured so details are defined in advance to assure the maximum efficiency and highest quality control. This comparison of cars is offered to enlighten you to the fact, that these car manufacturers have figured out that you don't produce high-performance cars, by employing the same techniques as is currently offered by today's building industry. Research will show... These commonly asked questions and answers should give you reason to commission Magister OperisTM for turn-key constructing your current/next project: |
Q. | What makes Magister OperisTM or Magister OperisTM affiliates different from the other architects, engineers, general contractors, suppliers, or subcontractors? How can Magister OperisTM bring these parties together as a working team to bring substantial change to the efficiency, product quality, and the attitudes of the parties involved in a real estate project? |
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Unfortunately architects, designers, and draftspeople producing construction documentation today, are not trained to orchestrate all the trades, with the information they critically need nor with people skills necessary to get the project completed as accurately and efficiently as the client/owners checkbook allows. General contractors complement that problem, since typically they do not have enough proficient trades skills personally, to know how to create the proper documention for the building trades that provide the construction geometry missing in typical construction documentation that ensures the likelyhood of guaranteed success. The main reason is because almost all general contractors are general contractors rather than builders. Many builders have no personal intimate experience with the execution of each trade's processes. Magister Operis's background gives the Contract and Specification Management subsidiary a unique outlook with the most custom and flexible options available, which we combine with extreme efficiency tools for the entire construction process. You will not find another company as dedicated to freestyle construction. Most general contractors today eliminate complex details (your options) wherever possible so that they don't have to endure dealing with their uncoordinated subcontractors and suppliers. This is where we ominously excel. We have a reputation for coordination and being efficient with the most complex projects. We train our affiliate builders to implement and manage real estate projects using our Real Estate Lifecycle Technology SystemsTM program, so that they can provide the same level of quality and customer service as Magister OperisTM personally performing the construction management. Magister OperisTM treats building as a science, which it very much is...as we have demonstrated on numerous projects. Most general contractors run things more like farming. They plant some subcontractors, some materials, some drawings, and your pre-qualified checkbook out on the construction site and then expects your project to grow like a tomato plant in a garden. Notice most general contractors let their subcontractors and suppliers specify, engineer, and coordinate for themselves. Consider that practice is the core of why they are always working out problems throughout the entire duration of the construction process, rather than efficiently doing the planning up-front. Lots of finger pointing takes place with so very little planned. Subcontractors, suppliers, engineers, etc. are left to work many of the details out for themselves. General contractors typically expect all the planning to come from the architect alone. They don't make use of project timelines and resist one being created so that they can't be held accountable due to not knowing how to get properly intimate with your site, building design, structural, and mechanical options. As Magister OperisTM intensely studied these general contractors (hundreds) for over two decades, we studied why some contractors fail and some succeed. Consider the fact that most builders do not even have the basic building skills of using a hammer, saw, tape measure or various levelling and alignment technologies much less how to use an advanced scientific calculator which is the most powerful tool on any jobsite. Today's $10 Texas Instruments TI-35Xa calculator is powerful in tracking and accurately defining the geometry on today's jobsite by architects, builders, and subcontractors. Most general contractors and many subcontractors know what geometry is as a subject, but don't know how to actually apply geometry to make construction efficient as well as accurately fabricating and positioning each construction component. And when you don't possess the basic applied construction geometry skills, it makes things quite difficult to effectively and fairly supervise the construction of a project smoothly and on budget. The general contractor without these basic skils , working on a fixed price...cuts corners that effect your project's quality and efficiency to maximize his/her profits. Actually the problem is just as bad (or worse) in the "cost plus" projects simply because it's easier to blow money! While Magister Operis™ extensively uses various technologies directly linked to 3-D CAD, an advanced scientific calculator should also be in every tool belt and/or jobsite vehicle. What you receive when you hire builders trained by Magister OperisTM is one clean package, without anything else to get in-between. You can hire Magister Operis™ to build your project for the cleanest package. Magister Operis' techniques are similar to the design/build movement in recent times but Magister Operis™ is typically much more technically advanced and jobsite relations oriented than most design/build firms. Magister Operis' Real Estate Lifecycle Technology SystemsTM (RELTS™) eliminate the typical finger-pointing that occurs in typical construction responsibility distribution and quality control. Magister Operis™ has the ability to best bring these two forces together for the ultimate "Integrated Construction System". Consider what Magister Operis™ opens up in regards to your ability to better administer facility management to your real estate assets!!! Consider how much easier your life can actually become when your real estate assets can be managed from a digitally accurate 3-D model that matches each of your projects installed reality. Imagine the look on an electrical, mechanical, or appliance repair person's face when you can show them EXACTLY what is behind the sheetrock in your house or commercial building. As an investor in your real estate assets...seriously also consider the huge opportunities/savings that open up for you when it comes time for additions, renovations, remodeling, etc.
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Why is your estimate of the construction costs different than other quotes we have received from other general contractors? |
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What makes Magister OperisTM is different from most general contractors, is that all of it's quantities are taken from is directly from a 3-dimensional model with every piece of lumber and plywood present. With CAD there is very little guestimation estimation, but rather an exact survey of the quantities by counting members and reading the surfaces that was created to complete the 3-dimensional model. The only difference between the 3-dimensional CAD model and your project is that the lumber is straighter in the 3-dimensional model and there is no expansion and contraction. The bottom of the footings in the model is flat.
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Q. | So CAD figures out everything? |
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Although it is near impossible to have perfect cost predictions, the use of the 3-dimensional model to achieve cost controlling/quantifying and quality producing concurrent engineering far outweighs any thought of not employing the power of what the industry is becoming to know as "building information modeling".. A skilled builder can use CAD to digitally pre-build your project the same way as he/she knows how to digitally build things on site with a scientific calculator and his/her tool belt. CAD also allows the trades and suppliers to pre-contribute to the success of the project as well as obtain the details and dimensioning
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Q. | We have seen other general contractors with computer-aided design (CAD). Can't they do the same thing? |
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The principle of Magister OperisTM was a specialty framing subcontractor for numerous general contractors for more than a dozen years. We have only seen a few general contractors with the knowledge/motivation to utilize 3-dimensional computer-aided design for total site, structural, and mechanical modeling, engineering, and production drawings. Many have bought some software that will do some 3-dimensional framing, etc. but few actually know what they are doing with it, so the program just sits on their hard drive on their computer, rendered as useless or too complicated... |
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