It is measured, not counted · CONIKA for companies

The quantities for your build come out of the model, not out of counting by hand.

Builders and developers need design at volume: a housing phase, a building, a project that repeats. The system is the same one you'll see here, what changes is the scale. And when the type repeats, each following unit doesn't cost the same as the first: it costs less.

I · What we do

Architectural, plumbing and electrical, with the same level of detail in all three.

The architecture is modeled in BIM at LOD 300: each element carries its real size, shape, location and orientation, and quantities are measured from the model, not counted by hand. You receive the model in IFC, drawings in DWG and PDF, and quantity schedules exported from the model. The engineering disciplines are drawn on that same architectural base, reviewed by the same person who drew the architecture.

To start we need the site survey and the brief of requirements. Soil studies and gas lines are not included: you provide them, or we coordinate them with a consultant.

The combos

Architectural design is the base and always included. Add plumbing, electrical or both, and put together whichever package fits what you need.

II · The commissions

Each one started with a site, a client and a case file of its own. What you see are images of the model, not photographs of built work.

Behind these four projects is the same team and the same way of working that we're proposing to a builder: architecture and the BIM model on one side, plumbing and electrical coordinated with specialists on the other. Packaging it this way, for builders, is new. Whoever books now deals directly with Sofía and Juan José, not an account manager.

What you see are houses, one at a time. If your project repeats a type, a housing phase, a building with identical floors, it's the same system at another scale.

×10 The design is done once. Each repetition of the same type costs less than the one before: Repetition scale · Decree 2090 of 1989, Category F, taken as a methodological reference.

III · The seal

In Colombia

In Colombia the architecture is delivered sealed by a licensed architect, and that seal is included. Plumbing and electrical are routed as a guide on the same model, so the specialist for each discipline calculates them to code and seals them without starting from scratch. Those specialists work with us and we coordinate them, so you still deal with a single office. Their calculation and seal are quoted separately and settled once the architectural design is approved.

Outside Colombia

Outside Colombia we deliver the architecture, the model and the engineering as a base, ready for a professional licensed in your country to calculate to code, sign and seal. Licenses are national, so the local seal is theirs to add.

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IV · Price

There are three ways to hire us, and all three with the rate in plain sight. The calculator below does nothing but apply them.

Design package · architecture, BIM, renders and engineering routing

Includes the architecture, the BIM model, the renders (three up to 200 m², six from there on) and the routing of plumbing and electrical as a guide. The calculation and seal of the engineering are quoted separately. Each additional image, USD 100. The total never drops as the area grows.

Below 80 m² the minimum takes over, so the price per square metre goes up. If your project is smaller than that, write to us and we'll look at it: another way of contracting it may suit you better.

Renders only · if you already have your architect

For the builder who already has the project designed and needs the images. If you only have two-dimensional drawings, modelling is added once: USD 250. Inside the design package an additional image costs less, USD 100, because there the model is ours and already built.

Remodel · when you intervene what already exists

Remodelling does not cost more than designing from scratch: the design costs less, because much of the building is already resolved. What is added is bringing the current state into the model. You provide that survey, in DWG, IFC or a drawing from a surveyor in your city, and we spot-check it and model it in BIM, which comes to 35%. If the project is in Nariño, we can measure it ourselves.

If the type repeats

If you build the same design several times, each repeat costs far less, because the design is already done and only adapts to the plot. It's the serial construction fee scale recognized in Colombia since 1989: sixty identical houses come to 16.4% of the price each.

The value is set in a signed proposal, after reviewing scope and area.