Feasibility • Site Selection • Visioning

Feasibility Studies and the Development of ROM Budgets

Feasibility studies are an important first step to help clients determine whether their desired project can become a reality.  Our clients will tell you we have a unique ability to identify hidden costs at the earliest stages of determining the feasibility of a project.  Equally important is our ability to identify opportunities to avoid problems, use economical and creative solutions resulting in lower project costs.

Typically a Rough-Order-of-Magnitude (ROM) budget is developed as part of the feasibility analysis.  While on occasion the news is not good, we know our clients would rather have an honest answer to the question of costs instead of a serious cost overrun as the project develops.

Site Selection

Site selection has become a specialty of the firm, developed over the years with four different school districts.  MJP has worked with the various districts at a high level of detail to assist them in selecting school sites.   Our services for site selection are particularly useful to the smaller districts that are without in-house facility planning departments. We have prepared many masterplans for many school sites as well as for major mixed used developments.

We also assist our healthcare and tenant improvement clients in locating suitable sites.  We can help raise your comfort level that the space you are contemplating leasing will in fact, meet your needs.

Visioning

A problem is something negative to move away from, whereas a vision is something positive to move toward.  With problem solving, a group can become mired in technical details oftentimes missing the important goals and objectives of the project.

Visioning is a tool that is especially valuable with a multi-headed, institutional client.  Visioning is typically a one-day exercise that flushes out all of the important needs and goals of the project.  When done successfully, it can bring divergent user groups together behind a common cause.  MJP has facilitated visioning sessions in the early stages of programming and design.