Custom Home Building Process: Construction

Building your very own custom home is an exciting experience – but it’s also a long journey, with many moving parts and different parties.

One of the best ways to succeed in the construction phase of your new custom home is to ensure that you’re properly prepared with an accurate construction timeline and that you’re equipped with the best tools, custom home building team, and processes on your side.

Transparency is Key

The fact is, you’ll need to make a lot of important decisions throughout the construction of your new custom home, and every single one of them plays into the construction management process. While your custom home builder and construction supervisor will be overseeing the onsite day-to-day operations, you play a key role in the construction management process and will stay involved through regular meetings with your team.

A recent survey found that new-home buyers want more proactive communications about their home construction – and this makes perfect sense. Building a custom home is not a black box process, so there’s no reason for you to feel in the dark as to what’s happening with your project.

Good Tools Mean Good Process

To help you get started, we’ve provided some key questions to help you choose the right builder for your custom home project. At the top of the list are questions related to construction management process, including project management and change orders.

Your builder’s approach to construction management is a key indicator of how efficient and open their processes are. At Clarum Homes, we champion a thorough and transparent approach to construction management, leveraging an online project management tracking software that allows us to communicate openly with our vendors, contractors, and clients.

Each party in the construction process realizes significant benefits from this integrated approach to construction management including:

• Seamless Communication:  The Clarum team keeps all of your project information in our online project management system, and we share regular updates with everyone involved. This means that every vendor and subcontractor working on your custom home construction project communicates through the same software interface. You have a clear and easy to use our web-based portal to view the up-to-date status of your job with accompanying photos, documents, and timelines.
• Real-Time Responsiveness: Our cloud-based construction management software allows for real-time updates so that vendors and subcontractors stay on track and on task. As a customer, you can log in from any internet-ready device and keep tabs on what’s happening with your custom home project including the contract running total and project schedule.
• Accountability: Because our construction management approach champions complete transparency throughout your home building project, we ensure that we’re holding ourselves accountable to baseline budget and schedule goals.
• Efficiency: Clarum’s adoption of a centralized construction management portal has integrated a number of systems including scheduling, task management, document and photo storage/access, contact management, and budgeting. Our cycle and delivery times have improved, and continue to drive our determination to leverage efficient processes for the benefit of all of our clients.

Making sure that you choose a custom home builder that takes a thorough and transparent approach to construction management is an essential step in ensuring a successful custom home project. Custom home construction is a complex and involved process – but it shouldn’t be a mystery. And you should always expect open communication from your team.

Interested in learning more about Clarum’s approach to construction project management? Give us a call at 650.322.7069