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Analysis and initial preparation
Full review of the project and its design documentation, detecting missing technical information and incomplete budget items.
We manage your project with six services that cover it from start to finish. The ones that decide the outcome happen before anything is built. Hire them as a single end-to-end process or separately: each one solves a specific phase and works on its own.
Shield Solutions is also an architecture and consultancy practice. The six services start once there is something to manage; if there isn’t yet, we start earlier.
From concept and construction solution to the documentation for consent. Then we manage it through to handover.
We review the proposal, test it against real cost and programme and take it to site with no gaps in it.
Every project is threatened by the same four things: cost overruns, delays, poor coordination and quality that slips away at the end. All four come from the same place: decisions that arrive late.
Where others react on site, we concentrate the effort in the phase where decisions still cost nothing: on paper. All four risks get more expensive the later they appear.
We do it with two methods that complement each other.
Estimate a cost range for your project→Method 1
Exhaustive analysis, precise definition and deviation prevention. Most of the effort happens before the first brick is laid.
Rigorous monitoring, site control and delivery on time and as specified.
Pre-construction
A change on the drawing costs an afternoon's work. The same change with the structure already up costs weeks, and gets invoiced.
At the start of a project you can decide almost everything and you haven't spent anything yet. As the works advance the opposite happens: your ability to influence cost collapses just as spending takes off. Between those two curves sits the money a project makes or loses, and it is decided before anyone sets foot on the plot.
That is why pre-construction is not preliminary paperwork or a box-ticking phase. It is where we detect what is missing, check what things cost and put in order what comes first. This is what we do in it.
When the works begin, we already know what it costs, how long it takes and who is building it. The remaining 40% is delivering on it.
Method 2
Every hour and every euro, on what adds value to your project. Waiting, rework and poor coordination stay out.
The result: faster projects, costs under control and zero surprises for the client.
Specialism
A good part of the building is no longer built on the plot: it is made in a workshop and assembled in days. Shorter schedules and more precision, but the risk moves.
Industrialising takes work off site, where everything costs more, but it demands decisions closed long before starting: a panel that leaves the factory with an opening out of place is not fixed with a hammer.
We don't manufacture any of these systems: we manage them. We choose the one that fits, synchronise factory and site, and make sure what leaves the plant fits first time.
Who builds it
Final quality is decided by who builds it. We work with a contrasted network of trades and suppliers selected for quality, reliability and delivery, comparing proposals package by package.
And if you would rather work with your own, that works too: we manage with complete impartiality and no agenda of our own.
Foreign clients and expats
Every year thousands of foreign buyers acquire property in Spain and then have to refurbish, restore or build on it. Often from another country, in a language that is not theirs, under regulations they do not know.
We are not estate agents and not a construction company, and the whole commission can run in English.