Engage Early

The best outcomes on complex exterior metal projects start early with the right conversations.

We work with architects, general contractors, sub-contractors and owners from the earliest stages of design, bringing fabrication knowledge, engineering depth, and real construction experience to the table before decisions get locked in.

Read about our two offerings for early engagement: Design Charette and Design Assist Contract.

Design Charette

A Design Charette is a focused consultation, offered at no charge, where our team reviews your project in depth and helps you develop a clear strategy before work begins. We typically conduct two sessions and ask that you share plans, renderings, project schedule, and scope in advance so we can come prepared.

What a Design Charette covers:

  • Design vision and detailing strategy
  • Pattern selection and custom pattern development
  • Color and material options
  • Installation methods
  • Ways to optimize your design from both a cost and engineering standpoint

You will walk away with:

  • A roadmap of next steps
  • A direction for detailing strategy
  • Confidence in your design approach

Design Charettes are available to architects and design teams. For high-profile civic, cultural, or institutional projects, we may offer additional consultation at our discretion.

SCHEDULE A DESIGN CHARETTE

building sketch

Design Assist Contract

With a Design Assist Contract, your project kicks off fully coordinated, accurately priced, and ready for the next step.

A Design Assist Contract engages BŌK Modern’s full design and engineering team. Depending on the scope of the Design Assist Contract, we can deliver:

  • Pre or full engineering calculations
  • Custom pattern development
  • Technical details development, pre-shop or full pre-fabrication shop drawings, and design development shop drawings, design and technical details development
  • Cost certainty

All completed ahead of construction, so there are no surprises once work begins.

Design Assist makes sense when:

  • The design is complex or unprecedented and requires pre or full engineering to be resolved before the next step
  • State agency, community group, or design review board approvals require drawings in advance
  • The project has strict cost parameters
  • Multiple stakeholders need to approve a design that cannot change 
once the main contract begins

START A DESIGN ASSIST CONVERSATION

building model
building sketch

The best outcomes on complex exterior metal projects start early with the right conversations.

We work with architects, general contractors, sub-contractors and owners from the earliest stages of design, bringing fabrication knowledge, engineering depth, and real construction experience to the table before decisions get locked in.

Read about our two offerings for early engagement: Design Charette and Design Assist Contract.

Collage of building materials as a sketch

Design Charette

A Design Charette is a focused consultation, offered at no charge, where our team reviews your project in depth and helps you develop a clear strategy before work begins. We typically conduct two sessions and ask that you share plans, renderings, project schedule, and scope in advance so we can come prepared.

collage of building elements as a sketch

What a Design Charette covers:

  • Design vision and detailing strategy
  • Pattern selection and custom pattern development
  • Color and material options
  • Installation methods
  • Ways to optimize your design from both a cost and engineering standpoint

You will walk away with:

  • A roadmap of next steps
  • A direction for detailing strategy
  • Confidence in your design approach

Design Charettes are available to architects and design teams. For high-profile civic, cultural, or institutional projects, we may offer additional consultation at our discretion.

SCHEDULE A DESIGN CHARETTE


Design Assist Contract

A Design Assist Contract engages BŌK Modern’s full design and engineering team. Depending on the scope of the Design Assist Contract, we can deliver:

  • Pre or full engineering calculations
  • Custom pattern development
  • Technical details development, pre-shop or full pre-fabrication shop drawings, and design development shop drawings, design and technical details development
  • Cost certainty

All completed ahead of construction, so there are no surprises once work begins.

building model

Design Assist makes sense when:

  • The design is complex or unprecedented and requires pre or full engineering to be resolved before the next step
  • State agency, community group, or design review board approvals require drawings in advance
  • The project has strict cost parameters
  • Multiple stakeholders need to approve a design that cannot change 
once the main contract begins

With a Design Assist Contract, your project kicks off fully coordinated, accurately priced, and ready for the next step.