The service first, the price after

Why we do not start with the price

Because the price applies to what we do — and until that is settled, the price is meaningless.

It is not unusual for someone to ask for shop drawings and for it to emerge that what they actually need is a structural redesign, because what they were given was not designed for LGS. Or the reverse: less is enough than they expected.

The deciding question: where the project stands

You have an idea and a plot

General design. We take the whole process, from the needs assessment. General design.

You have an architectural design but no structural work

Structural design. We join as a discipline alongside the architect. Structural design.

You have a detailed design and need to manufacture

Shop design. The drawings become a machine program. LGS shop design.

You have a finished design and it looks wrong

Plan review. We look at it and tell you what the risk is. Plan review.

The common in-between case

You have a design, but not for steel. The structural discipline then has to be worked through again, because wall and floor structures are built on a different logic. That is not shop design but redesign. When the design exists but not for steel.

What to do

Do not try to decide. Describe in a few sentences where you stand and what you want, and attach what you have. The classification is our job. What happens when you write to us.

The point

Getting a price for the wrong service is worse than getting none. One conversation settles which one is needed — and it is often not what you expected.