Design Build/Assist
Our project managers captain an integrated team with a broad range of expertise, including engineering, CAD, BIM, budgeting, and construction/permit documentation. We utilize our experience with current industry practices, technologies, and systems, plus the knowledge of our other five divisions, to provide clients with the most suitable, comprehensive, complete, and fundamentally sound designs.
When you bring WBE on board in a design/build capacity, we’ll work with your project team to address electrical design issues, offer recommendations, and provide value engineering/cost control to keep your project on budget and on time. This will include providing alternatives for lighting, materials, and installation methods. We’ll deliver a design that balances form versus function while adhering to city, county, and state code requirements. This attention to detail will streamline the permit process, preventing redesign and resubmission of permit drawings and eliminating delays that could affect an entire construction schedule before a project begins.
BIM
WBE maintains its own in-house CAD operations department using AutoCAD & Revit to deliver all of the benefits that BIM (Building Information Modeling) offers to you and your construction team. Utilizing this software during planning and preconstruction phases of a project is only one facet used to deliver a project.
WBE utilizes software solutions like PlanGrid or Bluebeam during construction to insure all data including real-time clash detection is documented and addressed. All of these systems will deliver an efficient and cost effective project while providing accurate as-built drawings and other closeout documentation.
Pre-Construction
All of WBE’s divisions offer a wide array of pre-construction services including, but not limited to
- Budgeting
- Constructability Documents
- Construction Reviews
- Design Costs
- Design Decisions
- Design Development
- Engineering
- Evaluations
- Life-cycle costs
- Mock ups
- Permitting
- Planning
- Reprographics
- Scheduling
- Schematic Design
- Studies
- Submittals
- Value Analysis
- Value Engineering
Let us assist you and your company in making informed decisions before embarking on any project.
Engineering
Whether your project is a design-build or design-assist we’ll provide you with all of the services that any commercial electrical engineering firm can provide. From design development to construction documents to permitted drawings. We’ll guarantee your project will be built to our exact specifications to meet your exact expectations.
Pre-Fab
A good way to define our approach to pre-fabrication services is whether it makes good financial sense. Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should. We evaluate every task on every project and determine when pre-fabrication will save on material costs and labor hours, so we can incorporate it into our proposals and pass those savings onto you, the client.
WBE’s evaluation of pre-fabrication opportunities doesn’t end at the proposal phase. We continue to look at pre-fabrication during value engineering and construction phases of every project.
Green Technologies
Above and below grade, you can count on us to design and implement all of the critical infrastructure for your building(s) or campus. We have recently seen a spike in green technologies that require a specialized electrical construction skill set never before anticipated. So if you are considering solar, Bloom Energy boxes, building management systems, LED lighting, gas micro-turbines, or geothermal heat exchange, we can guide you through some of these complex solutions to solve an age-old problem: how to get more without compromising existing financial and environmental resources.
Service
WBE is dedicated to servicing our clients before, during, and most importantly after completing a project. Many contractors are inherently only interested in large notable projects.
WBE commits our company and its people to building long-term business partner relationships with our customers by servicing them long after completing a notable project. This commitment exists because we have never forgotten our roots and the work that got our company off the ground 46 years ago. To us no commercial job is too small, so try us and we’ll make a believer out of you.
24/7 Emergency Response
Let WBE’s 24/7 on-call emergency response service provide peace of mind. Our top-notch team will address electrical problems promptly and professionally. For every project we embark on, we provide contact information for all WBE personnel and an escalation chart, so there is never any confusion about whom to contact in an emergency.
WBE team members reside throughout the entire Bay Area and beyond. To ensure the quickest response time, they are all supplied with company vehicles and dispatched directly from their homes. Response times are only limited by the distance of the closest electrician or technician to the job site.