Does ARCHIlabs also build, not just design?

Yes, through the design & build model. Clients choose ARCHIlabs for space planning and design; when they wish, the studio also takes on delivery as the single party responsible for design and construction, with an agreed fee and an open book model, coordinating its established team and a network of selected contractors.

What does open book mean in design & build?

Open book means the client knows the real costs of supplies and contractors, with no hidden mark-ups, and pays an agreed, transparent fee for coordination. Every cost item is verifiable.

From space planning to design & build, open book

Our work starts from space: understanding how an organisation works and designing environments that enable its goals. Architecture and space planning are the core of what we do. From this expertise we develop an integrated model of design and delivery, design & build, which we offer with full cost transparency.

Method first

Every project starts from data. Through interviews and surveys we map how the organisation works, review the results with management and define the reference model. Space planning, the BOMA standard and Community Based Design translate that model into measurable space. This is the foundation on which the client builds its decision.

A multidisciplinary team

From space planning, the project brings in the disciplines it needs: architecture, mechanical and electrical engineering, structures, urban planning and specialist consultancy. An established multidisciplinary team ensures consistency between design and execution, from analysis to delivery.

Design & build, open book

When the client wishes, ARCHIlabs also takes on delivery through the design & build model: a single party responsible for design and construction. The economic model is open book, with an agreed fee. The client knows the real costs of supplies and contractors, with no hidden mark-ups. Coordination draws on the established team and a network of selected contractors, with the same rigour applied to the design.

A single point of contact throughout, from space to delivery

The value for the client

An operator that starts from method has no stake in a catalogue or in suppliers: choices stay oriented to the company's goals. Entrusting design and delivery to a single point of contact reduces handovers, variations and downtime, and keeps control over quality and budget.

Open book

Every item is verifiable: contractors' real costs plus an agreed fee.

Supplies

Contractors

Agreed fee

The client sees what they pay and why.

Fixed price

A single lump-sum figure: the internal breakdown stays opaque.

Total

Margin

Mark-ups

Real costs and mark-ups not distinguishable.

Qualitative diagram: in open book the items are separate and legible, in a fixed price they merge into a single block (illustrative proportions)

Space planning is the entry point. Design & build, open book, is how we carry the project through to delivery.

Design & build in industrial settings too

The same model – design and delivery under a single responsible party, in full transparency – applies to production buildings too. Go deeper in Industrial architecture: the warehouse as a project.

Let's start from space

The first step is always the same: understanding how your organisation works. The survey captures it in a few minutes and is the basis of every project.

From space planning to design & build design and deliver, open book