PROCESS

Our design & construction process for custom modern homes.

 

Creating your new home

Genius Project Track™

Our Genius Project Track™ is our 80-page design and construction process for modern single-family homes. It has 13 phases with budget, schedule, and quality assurance checkpoints throughout. The GPT™ is also a booklet that functions as a guide for clients. It explains every step of the process from beginning to end with helpful tips and images. Email us for a digital copy.

  • Transparency: We believe that clients should be kept informed throughout the project so they can make good decisions and feel confident in the steps being taken. The Genius Project Track™ explains what we do and why we do it in simple language.

    Quality: Creating a custom home is a complex task that requires a well-thought-out process. It presents challenges that average homes do not. The GPT™ helps ensure quality and makes the process enjoyable for our clients.

  • Custom Modern Homes: The GPT™ is for clients with projects architecture, interior design, and furnishing services for new homes, remodels, and renovations. However, it is also applicable to projects focused on one trade (only architecture, for example).

  • Efficiency: Our process overlaps phases and trades for greater efficiency. We also integrate architecture and interior design to ensure holistic design.

    Uniqueness to the Client: Every home we create is purposefully different and unique to each client. There are certain things we do in our design process to accomplish this, which includes, our Comprehensive Design Analysis™ and our Design Development Strategies™.

    Client-Focused: Our guidebook uses straightforward language to explain every step and phase, so you are informed throughout. It covers everything from design and construction documentation to permitting, contractor selection, construction administration, furnishing, and moving-in phases. It also contains sample drawings; a sample project timeline illustrating everyone’s responsibilities, phases, milestones, and checkpoints; and tips including:

    • Selecting the Right Contractor
    • Expediting permitting
    • 6 Common Issues During Construction

 

 “If we could describe working with FAME in one word, it would be SMOOTH.”

-FAME Client

Process Overview

Our process has 13 phases, broken into 5 chapters.

    1. Analysis

    2. Design Direction

    3. Schematic Design

    4. Design Realization Strategy

    5. Design Development

    6. Final Design Approval

  • 7. Agency Approvals

    8. Construction Documents

  • 9.1 The Architect’s role after permitting

    9.2 Client, Architect, Contractor Responsibilities

    9.3 Client, Architect, Contractor Communication

  • 10. Selecting a Contractor

    11. Construction Administration

  • 12. Furnishing

    13. Moving in

Sample Project Schedule

 

Learn More

The GPT™ is given to our clients at the start of a project. Email us to receive a free digital copy.