▌1. Design units can obtain market information early.
project starts design consulting work first, and design companies have unique advanced advantages in this regard, especially projects with industry characteristics and professional characteristics. They can use a large number of experience cases accumulated by design and consulting business to make it easier to track new customer investment trends, be more sensitive to customer demand information, easier to capture, and easier to understand customer real information needs.
Get the opportunity to contact customers as early as possible, so that you can understand customer ideas, understand customer goals, and devote yourself to work and implement your ideas as soon as possible. By understanding customer needs, quickly "out" the plan so that customers can more easily determine the final goal plan intuitively and quickly. Combined with the application of BIM and other means, customers' initial vague imagination can quickly turn customers' initial vague imagination into considerable reality.
▌2. Be able to use professional advantages to implement customer requirements as soon as possible
Compared with construction units, the design unit has more advantages in quickly making plans in advance, and can have a deeper understanding of project concepts, investment goals, project positioning, etc., and can quickly "express" the owner's needs through the design plan, so that it is easier to build trust with customers.
During the implementation stage of the plan, we continue to maintain communication with customers, and have enough time and opportunity to establish a harmonious relationship with customers in this process.
Whether in the feasibility study stage or the preliminary design stage, compared with the construction unit, the design unit has the advantages of project investment estimation and preliminary design estimation, because there are no basis for detailed calculation of quantity in these stages, and can only be estimated (quantity and price) based on the cooperation of the design, which is difficult for construction units to achieve.
▌3. It is easier to maintain the consistency of project investment decisions, etc.
The preliminary investment (consultation) decisions of the project will have a greater impact on subsequent implementation, or even a directional impact.
project goals are gradually clear and implemented as the plan deepens and work refines. From the perspective of investment indicators, project estimation controls the estimated budget, and the estimated budget controls the budget for future implementation until project settlement, final accounts, etc. Control step by step, the next level cannot exceed the previous level.
But in the past, there were often cases of "three supers", that is, the situation of the estimated budget exceeding the estimate, the budget exceeding the estimated budget, and the final budget exceeding the budget.
There are many reasons, but the most common reason is that each stage is inconsistent based on standards, requirements and even investment ideas, especially at each stage before the project construction.
Traditional project operation mode, each stage is a separate commission, and the factors that affect the final plan such as investment ideas, project positioning and even experience accumulation in each stage may change, and by the time of final implementation, there have been significant changes with the initial ideas and requirements.
Design units have many professional advantages and are more likely to participate in early project consultation planning, design and other work, and it is easier to implement project decisions and solve the problems of coherence in design solutions, so as to lock in customer concepts and ideas earlier and advance downward. This has an advantage over construction units that focus more on participating in later implementation.
