These services include verification of program intent to meet site selection needs and to validate the projects feasibility to meet preliminary cost targets and schedule milestones. It also includes preliminary budgetary services in both line item cost estimation and building systems analysis to provide a value-check of the project's ability to meet funding requirements and anticipated duration. Other services ongoing throughout the preconstruction phase of the project are value-management exercises to ensure the optimum amount of dollars spent for the desired scope of the project, in-depth scheduling analysis to both identify long-lead time items critical to meeting established dates, and to evaluate opportunities for possible schedule improvement by overlapping certain elements of the work for early start and fast track capability. We also examine the project materials and methods to determine if assumptions made during preliminary design can, in fact, be built economically in the field. 

This constructability review is performed by bringing in staff from the proposed on-site building team to work in tandem with the design and estimating staff and obtain "buy in" of all decisions made before the project hits the site. Design-assist by Manhattan combines the latest in technological application to lessons learned in the field on projects dating back over 100 years. Design-assist by Manhattan applies common sense thinking and planning to what can seem like an overwhelming task when considering the design and construction of a project.