The pre-construction phase includes creating a strategic plan for project, creating a design, securing permits or entitlements, and gathering the labor and resources required for construction. Pre-construction services can provide owners with a formal approach for developing cost, scope, and schedule to execute to construction on time and in control. 

The pre-construction phase is critical to a project’s success. It is during this phase that the project team gets organized, aligned in their vision and where the foundation of project communication and process is laid. Without a strong foundation, a construction project can quickly become disorderly, leading to gaps in communication, holes in the process and potential schedule delays. 

The pre-construction phase in a construction project is less familiar to most people. During the pre-construction phase, a strategic plan must be created, a budget and timeline must be agreed upon, a design for the project is begun and finalized, permitting is acquired, and procurement of both labor and resources occurs.