This philosophy drives GMK Design-Build, our alternative to the more traditional bid-build scenario where GMK guarantees the project price prior to beginning construction. This delivery method drives true time and cost-savings, even allowing the owner multiple “go, no-go” decision points during the design process. Our team of architects, cost estimators, design and construction project managers, construction engineers, and field representatives monitor and control every step of a project, ensuring a more seamless process and amiable relationship between designer and contractor. Because we are actively pricing and buying materials in order to build our projects, GMK cost estimates reflect real-time pricing – critical in this economic landscape.

Under the design-build method, GMK Design-Build assumes total responsibility for project planning, design, scheduling, energy-efficiency engineering, cost control and construction, including specific disciplines like civil, structural, fire protection, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, landscaping and irrigation services.

GMK Design-Build has been instrumental in the planning, feasibility study, funding consultation, design and construction of the only federally approved HUD-242 design-build projects in the country. Read more about Seacoast Medical Center, Loris Healthcare Annex and Wills Memorial Hospital, or view our work on South Carolina’s first, proposed LEED-certified inpatient facility, Clarendon Health System.