Building Construction Projects
OPTSTRUCTION Constructability Review is your essential resource for mitigating design coordination risks and improving overall outcomes for building construction projects. We seamlessly integrate with your design development process, providing valuable insights and collaboratively assisting the team with enhancing documentation quality supporting streamlined procurement and construction execution.
The Core Challenges
Managing Building Construction Design Development can seem as complex as juggling on a unicycle
High-quality, coordinated construction documents are essential to delivering projects that align with the owner’s vision, strategic goals, and end-user needs. Yet, resource constraints, tight schedules, siloed workflows, and increasing regulatory complexities often prevent teams from achieving this standard.
Limited Resources
Insufficient time and human resources amongst the stakeholders can constrain a project's ability to produce design documents optimized to support construction.
Unmitigated Risks
Design challenges often surface during the construction execution phase resulting in unexpected cost, schedule, and quality impacts.
Siloed Collaboration
Complex building construction projects often include a multitude of specialized design consultants working in parallel with little time or resources dedicated to cross discipline coordination or constructability considerations.
Narrow Focus
Commonly the primary objective during the design development process focuses on obtaining permits with less consideration given to detailing required to support construction.
Build Confidence in Your Design’s Constructability.
OPTSTRUCTION dives deep into your design documentation, uncovering valuable insights that streamline procurement and construction while reducing costly risks.
Reduce Project Risks – Cost, Schedule, Litigation
Mitigate cost, schedule, and litigation risks by resolving issues hidden in design documentation before they escalate.
Improve Coordination and Collaboration
Break down silos and align stakeholders early, fostering stronger coordination across disciplines streamlining procurement and minimizing construction administration.
Optimize Value
Ensure your project documents align with the designer’s intent, end-user requirements, while simultaneously supporting the construction process increasing certainty of project outcomes.
Our human-driven Constructability Review system integrates directly into your design development process to provide detailed, cost-effective insights.
From uncovering documentation inconsistencies to improving constructability OPTSTRUCTION is engineered to deliver highly detailed insights efficiently and provide support with improvement implementation.
OPTSTRUCTION is a proven process being continuously improved that to date has been successfully implemented on over 500,000 Square Feet of developments across a diverse group of project types throughout California exceeding $400 Million in estimated construction costs.
Major System Overlays
We Overlay and review alignment of major building systems across disciplines and provide marked-up .pdf documents with commentary. These overlays help validate design document support of important coordination aspects like:
Systematic Design Document Review
We perform a thorough analysis of the project documents. This step focuses on document completion and cross-discipline coordination. Using our constructability checklists (customized to your project) we answer questions like:
Project Specific Constructability Review & QC
In this step, our lead consultant (David Fields) reviews the documentation. This brings his deep knowledge and industry experience to:
BOD Review
We compare Basis of Design (BOD) documentation vs. the drawings to validate alignment which has the following benefits:
Constructability Review Reports
In this step, everything identified gets distilled into your final deliverable. We assemble this final documentation which, includes:
Team Support and Implementation Validation
We collaborative with the project team to help execute improvement opportunities identified through the Constructability Review Process to include:
Contact us today to schedule a consultation and learn more about how our services can help create successful outcomes on your building construction projects.
The cost of engaging DFCS pales compared to what would otherwise happen if I had elected to forgo incremental constructability reviews”
Having been in the construction industry for over forty years, I am well aware of the adverse effects a poorly prepared set of construction documents could have on a project: delays, disruption, and claims. Most project teams would like to avoid these, but often lack the time and resources to coordinate complex documents—especially with today’s multi-disciplinary teams, deferred submittals, and design-build approaches that fragment the process.
This is why I continue to use David Fields Consulting Services LLC (DFCS) for constructability reviews. Mr. Fields and his team have the knowledge to identify conflicts and inconsistencies that directly impact project efficiency and cost. In my experience, the cost of DFCS is minimal compared to the issues avoided. I urge you to seek Mr. Fields’ assistance before bidding—his incisive recommendations are well prepared, clearly presented, and easy for your design team to adopt.
— Kenneth J. Aspis
From Chaos to Clarity: Why I Developed OPTSTRUCTION
Hi, I’m David. As a licensed California General Contractor with over 16 years of experience in the AEC industry, I’ve seen firsthand how uncoordinated design documentation can derail projects—blown budgets, missed deadlines, and frustrated teams. I knew there had to be a better way.
That’s why I created OPTSTRUCTION. By making constructability reviews systematic, accessible, and cost-effective, we help teams identify risks early, improve collaboration, and deliver successful projects with confidence.
Our mission is simple: to optimize project value and increase certainty of outcomes by proactively mitigating risks during design development. Let’s build better, together.
Take the First Step Toward Improved Project Outcomes.
Eliminate the guesswork and reduce project risks. Schedule your free consultation today to see how OPTSTRUCTION can help your team deliver high-quality, coordinated documentation—and help set your project up for success: