Special Projects Require a Custom Approach
Some construction assignments do not fit neatly into a standard service category. WHC provides paid discovery, feasibility, and project-development services for technically complex, unusual, or first-of-kind construction projects.
Because these assignments often begin with incomplete information, unusual risks, or undefined scopes, the first step is normally a structured discovery process before construction pricing or delivery commitments are made.
Special Project Services
- Unusual residential and commercial construction
- Complex renovations
- Adaptive reuse
- Building-envelope remediation
- Challenging site conditions
- Prototype and first-of-kind projects
- Recovery and completion of stalled projects
- Multi-discipline construction coordination
- Special procurement and value engineering
Additional services may include consultant selection, document review, preliminary budgeting, constructability analysis, risk identification, procurement planning, scheduling, and construction-management support.
Discovery and Feasibility Engagement
Starting from $2,500 plus HST
The discovery phase may include:
- Initial project consultation
- Review of available drawings and documents
- Site or building-condition review
- Identification of major technical concerns
- Preliminary scope development
- Initial budget considerations
- Consultant and trade recommendations
- Identification of approvals and next steps
The final fee depends on the project location, available information, complexity, required site attendance, consultant involvement, and the level of written reporting requested.
Principal Consulting
Starting from $250 per hour
Principal consulting may be used for:
- Project-strategy meetings
- Technical problem solving
- Scope and proposal review
- Owner representation
- Consultant and contractor coordination
- Site-condition response
- Risk and cost review
- Recovery planning for delayed or stalled projects
Travel, document review, reporting, consultant coordination, and specialized investigations may be quoted separately depending on the assignment.
Construction and Project Delivery
Quoted following completion of the discovery phase
Once the discovery process is complete, WHC can prepare a project-specific proposal for the next phase.
Depending on the project, the delivery agreement may include:
- Detailed preconstruction
- Design and consultant coordination
- Construction estimating
- Procurement and tendering
- Construction management
- General contracting
- Phased remediation or reconstruction
- Project recovery and completion
Final pricing and contract structure depend on the confirmed scope, drawings, site conditions, consultant requirements, schedule, risk, procurement strategy, and construction-delivery model.
Why Discovery Comes First
Special projects frequently involve unknown or incomplete conditions that cannot be responsibly priced from a short description or preliminary conversation.
A structured discovery process helps:
- Define the actual problem
- Identify hidden risks
- Establish the required consultant team
- Clarify owner expectations
- Develop a realistic construction scope
- Improve preliminary budgeting
- Reduce avoidable changes during construction
- Determine whether the project is practical to proceed with
Published fees are preliminary starting points only. Final pricing depends on project complexity, site conditions, available documentation, required consultants, travel, reporting requirements, construction risks, and the confirmed scope of services.
Discuss a Special Project
Contact WHC to discuss a technically complex, unusual, stalled, or first-of-kind construction project in Kitchener-Waterloo or Southwestern Ontario.
