ᐅ Engineering and architectural firm or construction company

Hello everyone,

Since there are so many experts here and I’m grateful for any information, I have a question:

1.) I have found an engineering firm that works together with an architectural office. They divide the project into 9 phases up to the turnkey completion and professionally coordinate the entire process. In each phase, a tender is published and the experts are selected together with me. After each phase, an expert report is also arranged based on the work completed. The downside is that they cannot guarantee the price, and the construction completion timeline cannot be fully controlled either, as it always depends on the experts involved in each phase. Of course, this project management service comes with additional costs.

2.) I hire a construction company and get a price guarantee as well as a certain time guarantee, but I have no idea what has been inspected or if, for example, the shell construction is up to standard.

Does anyone have experience with engineering firms? Could you please share your thoughts to help me with my decision?

Thank you very much and have a great evening, everyone.

Yasemin.G schrieb:

1.) I found an engineering firm that collaborates with an architectural office. They divide the project into 9 phases up to the turnkey stage and professionally support the process. In each phase, a tender is published, and the experts are selected together with me. After each phase, a report is also organized based on what was done, and so on. The downside is that they cannot guarantee me the price, and the completion time cannot be controlled either because it always depends on the experts involved in each phase. Of course, this project management will cost me extra.

That sounds quite risky: a tender platform searching architects for you separately for each stage of the house planning (the fee schedule calls these “service phases”)—which doesn’t make sense. Producing “reports” there is even less reasonable. I think this is a bad deal: you don’t know much, and they think, “neither do we, but at least give us your money.”

Yasemin.G schrieb:

2.) I hire a construction company and get a price guarantee and some time guarantee, but I have no idea what has actually been approved or whether the structural work is okay, for example.

If you go with a general contractor and hire them for the entire project, you can hire an independent expert as a construction supervisor yourself.

Basically, there are two options: building with your own architect (but I would avoid using a middleman in that case), or building without your own architect, having the builder not only construct the house but also handle the planning (search this forum for the keyword “Zeichenknecht”).
We still don’t know anything about you, your plot, or the applicable development plan—so we can’t advise which path is better for you. It’s best to start an introduction thread here, describing yourself and your project; begin by filling out the questionnaire at the top of the floor plan section: https://www.hausbau-forum.de/threads/grundrissplanung-unbedingt-vor-beitrag-erstellung-lesen.11714/

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