A shelved set of construction documents is not one asset. Some of it holds its value for years while the rest quietly goes stale, and the difference decides whether restarting a stalled building project costs a fraction of a design fee or all of it again.
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.
