Utility infrastructure design that saves you time and money

Utility infrastructure interacts with every part of your development. Getting layouts and plans in place as early as possible is therefore the number one way to save time and money on your project.

By creating functional designs and specifications at the tender stage, we can show you exactly what will be required at each stage of construction and what it will cost. You will be able to solve pain points before they occur and avoid costly surprises. 

However, that approach isn’t the norm. Instead, the way the sector works often means that the loss of time and money due to substandard, late design is considered a fact of life on many projects. 

Traditional infrastructure design harms projects

The established method in the sector is to do a full design only once the job is accepted. 

That means you, the client, will only be able to see a design after you have appointed a utility infrastructure firm and paid them a substantial sum up front in most cases.

Read: A better way to procure utilities infrastructure

It will take a long period of time following the appointment for a utility infrastructure company operating a traditional business model to present their initial plans. 

You will then have to see how they work with the plans for the development that have already been created, and adjust them if the utility provision isn’t a good fit. 

It makes very little sense and explains why the utility infrastructure on your project so often ends up:

• Going over budget
• Being subject to contract variations
• Failing to meet deadlines

The Zenit approach to design that saves you time and money at every stage

At Zenit, we take a different approach to design and save you time and money from the outset of the project.

Instead of coming in later and waiting until our whole contract is accepted to start the design, we create our first functional designs and specifications at tender stage.

We show you exactly what the plan is, what it involves, how long each stage will take and what everything will cost.

That means we can show you the upcoming pain points ahead of time, and plan solutions for them.

By doing so, we can help you avoid costly surprises and ensure that the utilities design is integrated in the overall project plan from the very earliest stages. 

Working in such a transparent way means that you can plan ahead with confidence, and utility infrastructure can actually contribute to shortening the project plan rather than regularly being the cause of delays.

All of that is possible without you having to pay a huge lump sum up front on most jobs.