Design Management

Suffolk Design: Streamlining the workflow between design and construction

Suffolk Design is our in-house design and design-management team. We partner with clients, designers, and Suffolk’s operations teams to deliver projects in a variety of sectors — commercial, multifamily, hospitality, higher education, life sciences and health care — with greater speed, completeness, and certainty.

Why Suffolk Design?

When design and construction experts are unable to collaborate or communicate effectively during design, incomplete and uncoordinated drawings lead to construction delays and added costs. As architects working on the builder’s side, our design managers appreciate the need to balance design vision with constructability, cost, and schedule goals.

Design Management

What we do

Working with Suffolk’s preconstruction teams, Suffolk Design’s licensed architects and engineers provide key services geared towards driving project success from design inception through completion.

Design Management

With this collaborative process, Suffolk Design coordinates design deliverable, procurement, and fabrications schedules with all stakeholders to ensure an optimized process alignment. Team members participate in a detailed planning process to identify and prioritize constraints and needs and establish commitment dates.

Constructability Reviews

To establish clear design document completion goals, Suffolk Design regularly holds design and constructability level of development reviews with clients and their design team. These reviews facilitate team-wide collaboration and set clear expectations.

Design Assist During Construction

Keeping pace with the rapid flow of information required during the construction phase can be challenging. Using Suffolk Design on design assist efforts allows major architectural, MEP, and structural coordination issues to be identified earlier in the project lifecycle, avoiding redesign efforts and offering cost-effective solutions to be incorporated into the final documents.

Suffolk Design in Action

MBTA Quincy Bus Maintenance Facility

Commissioning to meet sustainability goals

With an expertise in commissioning, Suffolk Design is ensuring that the Quincy Bus Maintenance Facility will operate at peak performance, contributing to the MBTA’s sustainability goals and supporting a more efficient public transportation system.

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Our featured projects

We’re proud of the work we’ve done to help transform skylines. Here are a few of our most recent projects.

Boston, MA
South Station Redevelopment

An iconic, 51-story tower directly over the historic South Station train and bus terminal in Boston.

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Big Sky, MT
Montage Big Sky, Hotel and Residences

This ultra-luxury resort is the second largest ski resort in the United States by acreage with ski-in, ski-out access to the 5,800 skiable acres at Big Sky Resort.

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Design Management

Testimonials

“Suffolk Design’s keen attention to their approach reduces engineering/architect rework, identifies problems in real time, keeps us on financial track and reduces schedule delays.”

Michael Bachstein, Vice President of Facilities Development & Engineering at Cape Cod Hospital
“The Suffolk Design team has been instrumental on getting our project back on track. Their professionalism, hard work, diligence, and communication have been a huge boost to the design team’s productivity and our Suffolk teams trust in the work that the team is doing behind the scenes. They have a very sophisticated approach to tracking and solving problems and are very receptive to our requests. It is evident in all interactions with the team that they are proud of their work product and are dedicated to constant improvement. These sentiments have been shared by the entire team at the Inn at Spanish Peaks.”

Dylan Schultz, Superintendent at the Inn at Spanish Peaks
“Integral to the success of this team has been the participation of Suffolk’s Design group. Design/Build teams have the shared contractual goal of helping clients realize their building needs. However, they can have different paths toward that common goal and sometimes even speak different languages on the journey. Suffolk Design bridges the gap between these two partners.”

Greg Heppner, Principal at The SmithGroup

Our Team

Suffolk Design is made up of licensed architects, professional engineers, and design technologists who bring their experience and collaborative mindset to bridge the gap between design and construction.