For interior designers and architects · Metro Vancouver & the Fraser Valley
Built As Drawn
A twenty-minute webinar on what happens to a design between your last drawing and the client’s move-in day, where it usually breaks, and what a builder can do differently so you don’t have to babysit the site.
No pitch until the very end, and even then it’s a twenty-minute conversation, not a contract.
On-demand webinar
Watch Built As Drawn
- • The four places a design breaks between drawing and move-in
- • Why square footage measures the building, not the property
- • The mock-up panel that saved a whole elevation on a Burnaby laneway
- • What Bill 44 height, setback and separation rules do to a massing
- • The seven-step way a joint designer–builder project runs
Presented by CoreVal Homes, Coquitlam. About 22 minutes.
What the webinar covers
Four places a good design breaks. None of them is “the design was wrong.”
Break #1
The lot was never priced, only the building
Calculators and per-square-foot numbers price the structure. Demolition, grading, drainage, services and municipal requirements are what move the number, and when they show up late the money comes out of the visible scope: your millwork, lighting and tile.
Break #2
The estimate that told the client what they wanted to hear
A budget can be made to match any number by thinning allowances. The missing money does not disappear; the conversation about it is delayed until the client has fewer options and your design is on the table.
Break #3
Nobody defined the finish, so the site did
"White oak" and "matte black hardware" are not specifications. If the drawing does not name the product, the site picks the one in stock. We build a mock-up of any detail that defines the design and you sign off on the physical thing.
Break #4
Substitutions nobody told you about
A back-order, a trade with a cheaper option, and the swap happens without a call. Our rule: no substitution on a designer-specified item without the designer’s okay, with both options and the price difference in front of you.
Working with CoreVal
We would rather be the builder designers bring in than the builder who replaces them.
We have an in-house design team for homeowners who walk in with nothing. When a homeowner walks in with you, our job changes: we protect your design and we make the numbers real.
You keep the client and the credit
You are the designer of record. Finished work is photographed and published with your name on it.
Real numbers, early, in plain language
A published investment range, fixed pricing on defined scope, milestone billing, and an estimate that says what we do not know yet.
Design and permitting in-house
Zoning research, drawings and municipal submissions handled by the same team, so Bill 44 height, setback and separation questions get answered at concept, not at submission.
Licensed, warrantied, inspected
BC Housing licensed builder with 2-5-10 warranty through Pacific Home Warranty. We hold the licence and sit in front of the inspector.
One team, start to finish
The project lead from the first site walk hands over the keys. When you call, the person who answers knows your drawings.
How a joint project runs
Seven steps. Most of them agreed before the first day on site.
- 1
A 20-minute call
You, us, no client yet. What you design, where, and how you like to work. We will say honestly whether we are the right builder for it.
- 2
The site walk, together
Access, grade, services, trees, the existing structure. You see what we see, and get a one-page "what we know / what we do not know yet".
- 3
Concept pricing against your drawings
Scope-based, allowances stated, exclusions stated, and the three or four decisions that swing the number most.
- 4
Details and mock-ups
Anything that defines the design gets specified to the product; hard-to-picture finishes get a sample on site, approved in person.
- 5
The construction calendar
Every milestone, what it depends on, and your site visits on it: framing walk, rough-in, drywall, pre-finish.
- 6
Substitutions and changes, through you
Anything on your spec that has to change, you hear first, with options and prices, before it is installed.
- 7
Handover, photography, credit
Finished, warrantied, photographed properly, and published with your name.
Licensed, insured & warranty-backed
Send us one project.
A laneway stuck on height, a renovation where the quotes are all over the place, a client who wants composite and has been told it can’t be done. You’ll get a straight answer whether or not we end up building it.
CoreVal Homes — Built to a Higher Standard. Serving Metro Vancouver & the Fraser Valley. See everything we build on the CoreVal Homes homepage.