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Walkthrough: inside a finished design-build project

A short tour of a completed light-industrial build — from the site plan to the finished floor — and how one accountable team carried it the whole way.

By Sam Moore, VP of Project ManagementJune 30, 20261 min read

WatchWalkthrough: inside a finished design-build project

The best way to understand design-build is to walk a finished one. In this short tour we step through a completed light-industrial project — what the owner asked for, the calls we made on site, and how the drawings held up against the build.

What to watch for

A few things worth noticing as you go through the walkthrough:

  • Where the original site plan bent to reality, and why that was fine.
  • The details that only get solved when the people who drew it are also on site.
  • How the finished space matches the estimate we put in front of the owner.

One team, start to finish

Nothing in this building got lost in a handoff, because there wasn’t one. The same team owned the drawings, the budget, and the crew — so when a question came up in the field, the answer didn’t wait on a phone tree.

That’s the whole argument for design-build, and it’s easier to see than to explain. Press play.

Written by

Sam Moore, VP of Project Management

VP of Project Management at DempseyGill. He runs the work in the field, keeping the schedule honest from award to final walk-through.

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