Construction Project Management

DESIGN YOUR HOME

When you’ve settled on a lot that suits your needs and presents no insurmountable obstacles, then is the right time to focus on the design of your home. Whether you want to customize an existing plan or start from scratch, discuss your ideas with your design-builder. At Master Construction we can advise you on customizing the design and orientation of your house so that it will work with the landscape in the most attractive, energy efficient and economical manner possible while fitting your current and future lifestyle needs.

Day dreams cost nothing but your ideal home is a big investment and every step requires careful consideration and planning. Start with making the right decision on a location that fits your lifestyle and then consult with your contractor on how best to incorporate the elements of your dream home into a design that will work with the terrain, the environment and the regional building regulations.

At Master Construction, we have had years of experience working with clients customizing and designing homes to make the best use of their building lots. Stop fantasizing; contact us to help you make your dream home a reality.

IS THE LOT BUILDABLE?

There’s more than meets the eye when considering a building lot. Does the water frontage mean it’s on a flood plain? Is that nice little marshy pond an environmentally protected wetland? Do those outcroppings of limestone indicate bedrock just below the surface that will need to be blasted to put in a foundation? Have there been mudslides on those steep hills? What’s in those woods behind your house?

Local design-build contractors like Master Construction can help you answer these and other practical questions. If your lot is in a rural area, how far are you from power and telephone lines and what will it cost to bring them to your property? Is there cellular coverage or access to high speed internet? How deep do people have to drill for water in this area? Is the drainage sufficient for a septic field? If it’s in a town, you might want to ask about the hook up costs for electricity, gas lines, water and sewage utilities and cable if the lot is not in a subdivision. In either locale, you’ll want to know about essential services such as garbage and recycling collection, and response time for ambulance, fire and police services, which can affect your insurance premiums.

At Master, we know the local building codes in central, eastern and southern Ontario in terms of lot size, set backs from the road, house construction materials, house size and land usage restrictions. We can help you understand and plan the development of your dream home and property to conform to established regulations. This will save you time, money and effort spent on ideas that may not be permitted.

Local builders also keep well informed on what plans are being considered for other parcels of land in the neighbourhood – a wind farm, a subdivision, a waste management site, a quarry, a future highway extension. No one can predict all possible future development and rezoning that can happen, but most projects are under discussion in the municipal planning department for several years before they break ground.