Building Simply
Industrializing Real Estate Projects
The real estate sector faces massive pressure. Rising interest rates have tested the profitability of real estate projects, while regulatory requirements, complex interfaces, misaligned incentives among participants, and high demands from various stakeholders have driven up inflation-adjusted construction costs. This happens even though the demand in areas like residential construction is higher than ever before. Business as usual no longer works.
The construction and real estate industry must find new ways to make building profitable again.
Our Approach: Optimized Processes, Reduced Requirements, Systematic Planning
No single approach exists to counteract this cost trend. A cultural shift featuring fundamentally adapted project approaches provides the only real solution. Positive examples have existed for a long time, especially in the manufacturing industry.
The success factors of our approach include:
We establish a different understanding of processes, moving away from predetermined phases toward value creation stages that teams develop collaboratively using lean and agile methods.
Key principles include:
- Aligning interests and shared key performance indicators (KPIs) based on the Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) model
- Involving the right industry partners early
- Moving away from purely fee-based structures, like HOAI and AHO regulations, toward clear value creation stages
We strip technical standards down to the essentials and drive true cost-efficiency.
Key principles include:
- Leveraging the potential of reduced requirements, such as those from Building Type E or minimized building services
- Integrating innovative system solutions, such as building electrification
- Applying strict value engineering and eliminating non-value-adding components
We find the right modularization approach for your project, ranging from prefabricated modules on greenfield sites to standardized planning in complex inner-city projects.
Our guiding principles:
- Defining the appropriate modularization and standardization strategy at project kickoff
- Treating buildings as assemblies of recurring components and repeatable structures
- Implementing high degrees of prefabrication and scalability
This results in standardized individuality with identical types placed in different contexts. We adapt projects using clear parameters rather than endlessly increasing design complexity.
Your Benefits: Building Faster, Better, and More Profitably
Our approach delivers a clear value proposition for the real estate industry:
- Lowering hard construction and soft costs by 10 to 20 percent
- Ensuring higher schedule and cost certainty through clear processes and incentive systems for all participants
- Producing fewer errors, less waste, and fewer sunk costs
- Generating efficiency gains through prefabrication, lean methods, and digitalization
- Enabling scalable projects through systemic planning and standardization
- Securing quality across all project phases
- Providing high flexibility through product-neutral systems
- Increasing sustainability through resource-efficient solutions and optimized technology
Ultimately, we make real estate projects profitable, predictable, and scalable again
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