Services Offered

The claim to be a "turn-key" shop is common. The ability to deliver on that promise is not.

We work with you through every step of the process, from conception to opening day and beyond. 

What our clients receive from us:

schematic design

After initial introduction to the project, we develop a layout that focuses on the flow of goods, program, and menu-driven equipment.

1. Meet with Key Team Members

2. Concept and Menu Review

3. Scheduling, Programming and Critical Path Coordination

4. Equipment Analysis

5. Design Team Drawing Integration

6. Develop Initial Layouts and Provide Block Drawings

7. Schematic Design Presentations with Concept Images

8. Order of Magnitude Budget

9. Estimate MEP (Mechanical, Engineering, and Plumbing) Loads

design development

Layers of detail are added to the layout, including the coordination of mechanical, electrical, and plumbing information, which is geared toward budget and plan-lock approvals.

1. Equipment Selection

2. Further Develop Floor Plans

3. Number and Schedule Equipment

4. Deliver Itemized Equipment Budgets

5. Achieve Plan-Lock and Budget Approval

6. Provide Cost-Saving Options as Required

7. Special Conditions Plans

8. Exhaust System Criteria

9. Refrigeration System Engineering

10. Plumbing and Electrical Rough-In Plans

11. Issue Cut-Sheet Volumes

12. Issue Coordinated MEP Submittal

13. Design Development Coordination with Team

construction/coordination documents

Equipment data is finalized and translated into a permit quality drawing package, which is ultimately used for construction in the field.

1. Dimensioned Plumbing and Electrical Rough-In Drawings

2. Guaranteed Health Department Approval

3. Detail Custom Fabrication and Manufacturer’s Drawings

4. Develop Final Equipment Specifications

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design build

We love to partner with design build contractors, aligning with one of our Great Lakes Ventures, GLCD brings our real-world experience to help the team develop the Grosse Maximum Price (GMP).  

With the GMP in place, the attention would turn to ensuring that a cost effective and competitive process is established and implemented that will achieve the project objectives while still capturing the advantages and value that GLCD, along with our sister companies, bring to the design build concept.

We are committed to the design build concept and to that end have a vested interest in continually proving our value to our clients.  We encourage you to contact our past clients and let those endorsements of this concept speak for themselves.

Regardless of which of the various means are used to control/monitor costs and assess value, it is imperative that we work with the ownership and operations groups to establish the overall cost budget, quality and equipment value level to be utilized on this project.  This is not a unilateral GLCD decision; this is a project team decision that will involve ownership, operations, design and construction team members.