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Fixed price, cost plus, and GMP solve different pricing problems. Learn what commercial owners should clarify before choosing a construction agreement.

An allowance puts money against an unfinished decision. Learn how to define the item, check inclusions, approve selections, and document the final adjustment.

Commercial construction procurement connects purchasing decisions to your opening date. Learn what needs to be selected, approved, and ordered early.

Owner-furnished equipment can include a restaurant's kitchen equipment, a church's audiovisual system, or specialty equipment a business buys directly from a preferred vendor. Those can be sensible purchasing decisions. Each one also creates a coordination question: who is responsible for getting the equipment from the delivery truck into working service? Owner-furnished equipment is equipment the owner supplies for the project. That phrase alone does not establish who receiv

The most valuable project we never built. This commercial buildout feasibility case study demonstrates how preliminary construction pricing helped a growing business avoid turning one expensive lease decision into a much larger, long-term financial commitment. Vision Building Group did not receive a construction contract from this project. The client received something more important: reliable information that allowed them to protect the business they had already built. Comme

Complex site. Compressed timeline. A better-performing restaurant. This Nashville restaurant renovation case study shows how Vision Building Group coordinated a complicated redesign, permitting, and reconstruction project for BoomBozz Craft Pizza & Taphouse in East Nashville. VBG redesigned and permitted the project in 45 days, completed its demolition and reconstruction scope in seven months, doubled the bar area, corrected existing construction problems, and improved the re