There is nothing more rewarding than building your very own Custom Home, and our step-by-step guide to designing and building makes it easy!

Your own custom-built home! You've dreamed about it so often, you can almost see it. If only the thought of building it wasn't so intimidating. As a builder of custom homes for over 30 years, Dickson Development Corporation understands your concerns. But we also know that building your own home can be the most rewarding experience ever. Let us show you just how easy it can be!

DESIGN & BUILD - A BETTER WAY

Dickson Development Corporation has developed and been utilizing for its clients a program we call our Design & Build Custom Home Program . It is a process that calls for a collaborative effort between you, the client, Dickson Development Corporation, the builder and a group of professional consultants and quality contractors working together from the inception of the process to produce a beautiful home within a budget. Everyone engaged by DDC works as a team for the client.

BENEFIT OF DESIGN-BUILD

Singular Responsibility: With both design and construction in the hands of a single entity, there is a single point of responsibility for quality, cost and scheduling which avoids "buck passing" and finger pointing.

Quality: The greater responsibility implicit in Design-Build serves as a motivation for high quality and the proper performance of building systems. Once the client's requirements and expectations are documented in design terms, it is the Design-Builder's responsibility to produce results accordingly. The Design-Builder warrants to the client that the design documents are complete and free from error. By contrast, with "traditional" design-bid-build, the client warrants to the contractor that the drawings and specifications are complete and free from error. Because it is the client's warranty for the design documents under "traditional" design-bid-build, the approach relies on restrictive contract language, extensive audit and inspection and, occasionally, the legal system, to ensure final project quality.

Cost Savings: Design and construction personnel, working and communicating as a team, evaluate alternative materials and methods efficiently and accurately. Value engineering and constructability are utilized more effectively when the designers and contractors work as one team during the design process.

Time Saving: Because design and construction are overlapped, total design/construction time can be significantly reduced. Under this method, construction work is allowed to begin while the final drawings are being completed. The time savings translates into lower costs and earlier occupancy of your home.

Early Knowledge of Firm Costs: Because Dickson Development Corporation is responsible for design we are simultaneously estimating construction costs and can accurately conceptualize the completed project at an early stage. Therefore construction costs are known far sooner than is otherwise possible. This permits early establishment of financing, reduces exposure to cost escalation and avoids the possibility of committing substantial time and money for design, only to learn that the cost of the project is prohibitive.

Risk Management: Project performance aspects of cost, schedule and quality can clearly be defined and appropriately balanced (individual risks are managed by the party best able to manage that risk). Change Orders due to drawing and specification errors are eliminated because the correction of such issues is the responsibility of the Design-Builder, not the Owner.

For all these reasons we believe that our Design & Build Custom Home Program is the best way for you to build your home.

Dickson Development Corporation has the following qualifications to do this work:

• Depth of resources
• Exceptional reputation
• Management plan and project organization
• Financial capability
• Previous experience of the Design-Build team for similar projects
• Previous experience of the Design-Build team members working together
• Innovation and creative problem solving
• Special knowledge of custom home building for over 30 years
• Key personnel committed to the project
• Quality assurance
• Knowledge of the area in which we have worked for 30 years
  

Follow our 9-step guide. You will see that the process is simple when it's all mapped out ... particularly when you've got a pro working with you. Dickson Development Corporation is anxious to assist you through every phase of this exciting process. We'll make sure that the home we design and build with you is the home you've always dreamed of.