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Section D – Project Approach and Understanding   <br /> <br />City of Sunny Isles Beach <br />Request for Qualifications No, 20-07-01 Continuing Professional Consulting Services (CCNA) <br />  <br />  <br />Project Approach and Understanding <br /> <br /> <br />We have demonstrated with several other municipal projects our ability to satisfactorily <br />compete similar tasks as outlined in this RFQ. We are adept at all phases of a project, <br />from predesign to project closeout. <br /> <br />As we commence a project we review and identify its primary goals, timeline, budgets, <br />order of delivery, and critical milestones. Understanding the client’s need, analysis of <br />the context and relationship of the project to its site or location is the pretext to the work. <br />Risks are identified and evaluated between all parties to forecast situations that could <br />affect a project’s progress and viability. <br /> <br />We have organized community workshops to best understand the users’ needs and <br />have presented our projects numerous times to design review boards to obtain critical <br />feedback as the design process evolves. <br /> <br />Project costs are evaluated at each phase of the project to determine ways to value <br />engineer while not sacrificing quality. All of our projects follow best green practices as <br />defined in the LEED system. When value engineering, we keep in mind the long term <br />consequences of a project’s design in terms of maintenance, user experience, and <br />energy/water use. <br /> <br />The coordination of the documents with our consultants and pre-submittal meetings with <br />building department officials and agencies ensures that our documents will meet code <br />requirements and thus facilitate the approval process during the permit review. Clarity <br />and attention to detail reduces the number of RFI’s or change orders in the field during <br />construction. <br /> <br />Our studio collectively meets several times a week to review the progress of each <br />project and to trouble shoot any issues there may be so to determine all proactive <br />actions that need to be taken. <br /> <br />We handle several projects at a time in various stages of design or construction. On a <br />regular basis we review our work load to be sure we are on schedule and properly <br />staffed <br /> <br />Innovative concepts that we deploy include the creation of shared weekly project <br />reports, regular responsive data exchange with the user group to guide the design <br />process, and incremental cost evaluations to maintain budget. <br />