An occupied building doesn’t get a grace period.
Everybody who works in it still has to work in it tomorrow. That’s the whole problem, and most of what goes wrong on an occupied job goes wrong because the contractor forgot it.
It isn’t a technique. It’s a temperament.
How a project starts
Send us what you have
Drawings, a scope, photos, or just the address and the problem. If you don’t have documents yet, that’s normal, most projects start exactly there, and it’s early enough for us to be useful.
We look at it with you
We’ll walk the space, or talk it through. We don’t employ salespeople: the person who looks at your building is a principal or our lead estimator. You’ll hear what’s straightforward, what’s likely to become a problem, and what we’d do differently, before anyone talks about price.
You get a number you can use
A conceptual budget you can take to an owner or a board, with what’s in it, what isn’t, and where it could move. The number that wins the job shouldn’t be the reason you regret it.
We’ll come back within one business day and tell you when you’ll have it.
Request a Conceptual BudgetThe occupied-job discipline
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Step 01 01
We ask what you can’t afford to lose
Every occupied building has one thing that cannot stop. Sometimes it’s obvious. Usually it isn’t, and nobody thinks to say it out loud until it’s already been interrupted. We ask first.
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Step 02 02
We phase the work by area
The building doesn’t close. Sections of it do, one at a time, on a schedule you’ve seen and agreed to before anyone shows up with a saw.
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Step 03 03
We seal the work off
Dust barriers between what’s under construction and what’s still being used. The people on the other side of that wall should be able to do their jobs without thinking about ours.
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Step 04 04
You hear it from us before you see it
Anything that will be loud, dusty, or in the way gets communicated ahead of time, not explained afterward. You are updated as the work moves. Nobody in your building learns about a shutdown by walking into one.
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Step 05 05
Your operation is the point, not the obstacle
This is the one that isn’t a procedure. Every decision on an occupied job is a small negotiation between what’s convenient for the crew and what’s tolerable for the occupant. We decide those the same way every time.
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Step 06 06
You get the file
Public work is inspected end to end, and it generates a complete record by mandate. You get the same file a public agency gets.
Occupied work: Security Screening Checkpoint Expansion · Ontario International Airport Authority · active airport and facilities · Ontario, California