Industrial Design-Build

One team owns the plan and the build. QDBI brings the architect and engineers under a single coordinated team, prices the work as the drawings develop, carries zoning, permitting and utility coordination, then leads construction in the field. Budget, schedule and constructibility get settled before the first trade shows up.

Yes. Most of our industrial work happens inside live operations. We phase around production, protect access and utilities, plan tie-ins and shutdowns with your team, and manage site conditions so your people keep working safely through the build.

Cost depends on the building, the site, and how much of the work has to happen around a live operation. You get a rough order of magnitude at the first meeting, a real budget during preconstruction — while the design can still respond to it — and no move to construction until the number is one you can plan around. We price plant expansions, additions and warehouse work as the drawings develop rather than handing you a bid at the end.

Entitlements, permitting and long-lead materials usually drive the calendar more than field work does. We sequence all three during preconstruction, flag the lead-time risks while there is still room to plan around them, and set a schedule before construction starts — then report progress against it weekly.

Plant expansions and additions, new warehouse and distribution buildings, equipment foundations and pits, dock and door work, tenant improvements, and renovations inside existing manufacturing space across the Fox Valley and greater Chicagoland.