The drawings are wrong, the services are not where they should be, and there is almost always something behind the linings that nobody expected. What separates a good refurbishment contractor from a poor one is how they handle that, and how honest they are about it before the job starts.
McBride Construction refurbishes, reconfigures and extends commercial buildings across Canterbury. We work for owners repositioning an asset, tenants making a building fit their operation, and organisations that have simply outgrown the space they are in.
Canterbury has a significant stock of character and heritage commercial buildings, and working on them requires patience, the right trades and an understanding of how the original building was put together. This is an area McBride is actively developing, and we welcome enquiries from owners of heritage and character commercial property.
Where access allows, we open up and look. It is cheaper to find a problem during pricing than during construction.
Where something genuinely cannot be known until the linings come off, we say so, and we agree with you how it will be dealt with rather than burying a contingency in the number.
Variations are priced and issued as they arise, not accumulated and presented at the end.
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