There is a particular silence that falls when the construction bids land well above budget. How a firm responds in that moment reveals what kind of partner you actually hired. Here is how we treat an over-budget bid as a design problem, not just an accounting one.
Most building projects begin with a square footage guess, and that guess is where budgets quietly come apart. Here is how the programming phase defines what you are actually building, and why it sets the budget long before anyone draws a line.
