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ERH Consulting & Specifying provides professional services to design and construction organizations. We generate value by working collaboratively with project teams while applying real-world methods that align seamlessly with project management objectives and workflows.

SERVICES

Specifications Project Management

We excel in producing project manual deliverables, providing expert management while collaborating with architects, landscape architects, engineers, and stakeholders to ensure alignment with project goals, regulatory standards, and industry best practices. Services align with project management best practices:

  • Project manual deliverables, working in concert with project teams and stakeholders.
  • Effective strategizing, decision-making, and problem-solving for projects and business systems.
  • Adhering to principles of stewardship, building trusting relationships within collaborative teams.
  • Creating value for projects, stakeholders, businesses, and society.

Preliminary Phase Documentation

We specialize in producing project documentation across multiple phases of the design and construction project cycle, supporting project decision-making and lean project delivery.

  • Design Development Reports | Outline Specifications.
  • Schematic Design Reports | Preliminary Project Descriptions | Narrative Basis of Design.
  • Predesign Reports | Owners Project Requirements

Project Quality Management

We believe that quality management should be an integral part of the way a practice is managed. Services are integrated with quality management resources to support design process and maintain design quality as project move into procurement and construction:

  • Employing organizational resources of Construction Specifications Institute (CSI).
  • Using smart technology to integrate BIM and specs.
  • Compliance with building codes and regulatory requirements.
  • Leveraging QM frameworks of American Society for Quality (ASQ) and ISO 9001.

High-Performance Buildings and Landscapes

Services support architects and landscape architects in pursuit of sustainable, regenerative design for carbon neutrality, social equity, nature-based solutions, and economic circularity:

  • Active participation and contribution to integrative design process (IDP).
  • Documentation for sustainability programs (LEED, SITES, MN B3, IgCC, and more).
  • Technical and performance specifying through applied research and design-assist approaches.
  • Specifying procedural requirements to achieve effective building enclosure goals.
  • Customized documentation for landscape design such as ecological restoration.

Predesign

Design Development

Schematic Design

OPR and BoD Development

Project Delivery Planning

Sustainability Planning

Quality Management Planning

Schematic Design

Design Development

Schematic Design

SD Narrative, PPD Development

Project Delivery Planning

Sustainability Coordination

Quality Management

Technical Design Support

Design Development

Design Development

Construction Documents

PPD Development, Outlines Specs

Project Delivery Planning

Sustainability Coordination

Quality Management

Technical Design Support

Construction Documents

Construction Administration

Construction Documents

Project Manual Documentation

Project Delivery Documentation

Sustainability Coordination

Quality Management

Technical Design Support

Bidding, Procurement, VE

Construction Administration

Construction Administration

Bid Phase Project Manual Modifications

Design Intent Interpretation

Substitution Request Support

RFI Response Support

Value Analysis Support

Construction Administration

Construction Administration

Construction Administration

CA Phase Project Manual Modifications

Design Intent Interpretation

Substitution Request Support

RFI Response Support

Certifications


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