Delivery Methods

One Route Doesn’t Fit Every Project

Our priority is delivering your project on time and on budget, regardless of how we get there.

Involving us early is the biggest key to a project’s success. Choosing the right delivery method is the second. Three routes, one standard of work. Here is how each one runs and when it is the right call.

Compare The Three

Which Route Fits Your Project

Every method gets the same crews and the same standard of work. What changes is when we join, who carries the design risk, and how early you know the number.

Design BuildLump Sum BidManagement At Risk
When we come inBefore design startsAfter drawings are completeEarly in the design phase
Who carries design riskWe do. Design and build sit under one contractYou and your architectShared, with us advising the design team
Price certaintyLocked in as the design landsFixed at bidGuaranteed maximum, open book
ScheduleFastest, because design and construction overlapSequential, with a bid period built inFast, with room to adjust
Change ordersFewest, because we drew itTied to how complete the drawings areCaught early in preconstruction
Best suited toOwners who want speed and one accountable teamFully designed projects and public bidsComplex projects still taking shape

Most owners land on a method in one conversation. Bring us finished drawings, a rough budget, or an idea sketched on a napkin. We will tell you straight which route serves the project.

Talk It Through With Us
Whichever Route You Take

What Never Changes

A delivery method decides how a project gets bought and how early we join the table. It never decides how the work gets built. The crews, the standards, and the people stay exactly the same.

01

Self-Perform Crews

Concrete, steel, and the scopes we would rather keep in our own hands.

02

Real Preconstruction

Value engineering, live supply lines, and budgets that survive first contact.

03

Safety First

One standard on every site, every shift, whoever holds the contract.

04

One Team Throughout

The people who price your project are the people who build it.

Delivery Method 01

Design Build

One Contract, One Team

Design Build is the most optimized route. You bring us in before design starts, and one accountable team carries the project from first sketch to opening day. Designers, engineers, and builders solving the same problem in the same room.

We bring current knowledge of supply lines and available innovative solutions to the table and value engineer the entire project, so you get the most facility for your budget, delivered on your timeline.

  • Fastest path to opening day
  • One point of responsibility
  • Design and price move together
  • Fewest surprises mid-build
See Our Design Build Work
Design Build at Coast Construction Group
Design and build under one contract
Delivery Method 02

Lump Sum Bid

Drawings Set, Price Fixed

Lump Sum Bid keeps you and your architect in the driver’s seat. You design the facility you want, and once drawings and specifications are complete, the project opens for bids.

We have delivered many successful Lump Sum Bid projects for public and private owners. We understand the risks this form carries, and with an appropriately defined scope and schedule, we will bring you the project you want at fair pricing.

  • Best when design is finished
  • Fixed price before we mobilize
  • Built for public and private bids
  • Scope defined up front
See Our Bid Work
Lump Sum Bid at Coast Construction Group
Complete drawings, competitive bid
Delivery Method 03

Management At Risk

Collaborate Early, Control Cost

With Construction Management at Risk, we engage with both the owner and the design firm early in the design phase. That builds an immediate, cohesive, collaborative working relationship across the whole team, and many of our projects are delivered exactly this way.

From concrete foundations to industrial renovations and additions, you harness our full building expertise with a guaranteed maximum price and cost visibility the entire way.

  • Best when design is still moving
  • Open book, guaranteed maximum
  • Preconstruction guidance included
  • One team from day one
See Our CMAR Work
Management At Risk at Coast Construction Group
Open book from preconstruction on

Getting in touch

Not sure which route fits?Ask us before you bid it

Bring us a site, a set of drawings, or just the idea. We will tell you which delivery method fits the job, where the risk actually sits, and what it takes to hold the schedule. The earlier that conversation happens, the more of it we can control.