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Rand
Soellner Architect, in association with Wills Builders, Inc.,
now offers what you have been wanting:
ONE
STOP SHOPPING FOR DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION
with
all the custom benefits of each. This is an optional
service that may appeal to many of our clients.
Rand
Soellner Architect, as you may know, is typically ranked among
the leading licensed mountain home architects on Earth. There
is no compromise in design in our organization. Our
designs are often featured in magazines and other publications.
We are recipients of multiple design awards.
Wills
Builders, Inc. is one of the best mountain home licensed general
contractors in Western North Carolina. Wills has a
full-time computerized cost estimator and project manager.
Your project is also scheduled on MicroSoft Project, so that
your materials arrive on site when they are scheduled and the
craftsmen appear when they need to and your home is built in a
more timely fashion. Wills also features a separate
webpage for your project on their website. On this page,
digital photographs of your project are regularly updated so
that you can see your project taking shape from afar.
Rand
Soellner Architect and Wills Builders Inc. are separate
companies, yet function as one organization on your behalf.
Currently, there are 7 home projects being Designed and Built by
our association. Rand Soellner Architect is responsible
for the design and Wills Builders, Inc. is responsible for the
construction.
Come
to the mountains and make your Mountain Dream a reality.
Here are words/comments that our clients describe their
experiences with our Design-Build services as:
- “Enjoyable.”
- “Understandable.”
- “Swift.”
- “Thinking
outside the box.”
- “Excellent
Value-Engineering!”
- “Best Site
Analysis I ever experienced; you saved me hundreds of
thousands of dollars!”
- “Organized.”
- “Timely.”
- “I understood
the cost implications of the design immediately and
continuously throughout the process. Right up-front, I
understood the cost per square foot of the Quality Level I
wanted; this simplified everything.”
- “I toured
several of their built projects; this allowed me to
understand the quality of what these people do before we
committed to anything. I have never seen such a
comprehensive level of experience and built examples from
any mountain home design & construction entity, as an
integrated association.”
- “These
professionals are the ‘real deal.’ Both the
architect and the contractor are licensed.”
For those of you in
other states, Wills Builders Inc. contacts licensed firms in
your area and associates with them to insure that you receive
the design for which you paid.
At
the present time, the above Design-Build association is
available within roughly a 75 mile radius of Murphy, NC.
Present areas of direct service include:
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North
Carolina:
Cashiers
Highlands
Lake
Lure
Glenville
Brevard
LakeToxaway
Asheville
Fairview
Murphy
Waynesville
MaggieValley
Canton
Cherokee
Bryson City
Sylva
Franklin
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Georgia:
Gainesville/Lake
Lanier & north of there up to North Carolina
Rabun
Gap
Dillard
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South
Carolina:
Seneca
Walhalla
West Union
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For
other areas outside of this zone, we do offer design. For
construction, our associated contractor will find and associate
with licensed firms in your area. |
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Rand
Soellner Architect was contacted in mid-2006 by Wills Builders,
Inc. Justin Wills, the president of Wills Builders said
they were seeking an architect. A professional on whom
they could depend for creative mountain home designs along with
detailed construction documents, so that the builder would have
fewer problems during construction and so that their clients
would be satisfied. |
| Rand
Soellner found this very interesting, because he was also
looking for an outstanding State-licensed General Contractor who
would actually build Rand’s projects the way they were
designed, without making unauthorized “cheapening”
changes unilaterally, and who would contact him to discuss
construction issues rather than guessing. |
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So, Justin
Wills and several of his staff members came from Murphy, NC to
visit Rand and see several of his design drawing sets and
to tour several of his built projects, convincing themselves
that he had the right stuff. Rand then visited Murphy and
toured some of Wills Builders’ projects, noting the
high-quality craftsmanship. |
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personalities and philosophies of design quality and
construction quality were compatible and consistent. Both
companies are highly experienced in Value-Engineering, wherein
the architect and contractor study conditions and client desires
and find ways to give the client the “Most Bang For His
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From that
point on, Rand Soellner Architect & Wills Builders, Inc.
have been offering and contracting with mutual clients, to give
the client one team of professional companies (2 agreements) to
both Design and Build their homes. Clients love it. One
team of trusted professionals to handle the whole package for
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the business plan, Wills Builders is establishing a location in
Cashiers, in addition to Rand Soellner Architect also meeting
with clients in their Murphy office. Joint Design-Build
projects are now in progress in Murphy , NC (3), Cashiers, NC
(4), Fairview, NC (1) (south of Asheville) and Brevard, NC (1).
The team has also been approached by a worldwide clientele from
locations as far away as Jordan. |
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The Rand
Soellner Architect / Wills Builders Inc. team is pleased to
announce that we were jointly recently selected and put under
contract to both Design and Build 3 homes for a 2,200 acre
century-old family estate in Cashiers, North Carolina. Our team
will be creating a new main house, a secondary home and a boat
house. All of these facilities will be master planned by
Rand Soellner Architect to integrate with existing structures,
some of which have been on site for 50 years. |
| Why
we were selected: we were judged by extended family
members as having the appropriate skills, experience and
sensitivity to create new homes that will both functionally
improve, yet aesthetically harmonize with the history of the
built and natural features. Also, Wills Builders Inc.
expertise in computerized estimating of Rand Soellner’s
designs will help the family to understand the economic
implications of their decisions starting from the beginning of
design through drawing completion and construction itself.
Furthermore, Wills Builders Inc. computerized time scheduling
will help keep the project on track. Wills will be using
many of their reliable subcontractors, known for delivering
quality for reasonable prices. This translates into value
for the client. Top quality design for value-engineered
pricing and delivered on or ahead of schedule. What more
could anyone want from their mountain home project? |
| Our team
will be creating a new main house, a secondary home and a boat
house. All of these facilities will be master planned by
Rand Soellner Architect to integrate with existing structures,
some of which have been on site for 50 years. |
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Wills Builders, Inc. |
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Why we were
selected: we were judged by extended family members as having
the appropriate skills, experience and sensitivity to create new
homes that will both functionally improve, yet aesthetically
harmonize with the history of the built and natural features.
Also, Wills Builders Inc. expertise in computerized estimating
of Rand Soellner’s designs will help the family to
understand the economic implications of their decisions starting
from the beginning of design through drawing completion and
construction itself. |
Furthermore, Wills
Builders Inc. computerized time scheduling will help keep the
project on track. Wills will be using many of their reliable
subcontractors, known for delivering quality for reasonable prices.
This translates into value for the client. Top quality design
for value-engineered pricing and delivered on or ahead of schedule.
What more could anyone want from their mountain home project?
INDUSTRY-UNIQUE
ESTIMATING:Rand
Soellner Architect, in association with Wills Builders, Inc.
developed a unique cost estimating system for the Design-Build
market. There are 4 levels of detail. The simplest
is Level 1; the most detailed is Level 4.
Level
1 Estimate: $/Square Foot, overall, based on the Quality Level
selected by You. Rand Soellner Architect developed over
the years, a unique set of outline specifications indicating
what is typically found in mountain home projects ranging from
$150/sf to over $425/sf. This allows you, during your
first meeting with our Architect, to easily understand and
select what components, systems and materials you would like to
have in your project.
Level 2 Estimate: $/Square
Foot, per each floor level (a one-of-a-kind, custom-developed
tool by our team).
Level 3 Estimate: $/Square Foot per
each Type of space (a one-of-a-kind, custom-developed tool by
our team). This allows you to understand what your Kitchen
will cost, your Master Bedroom, your Garage, your Media Center
and other spaces. A graph is included that, at a glance,
allows you to understand how much each part of your home will
likely cost.
Level 4 Estimate: Quantity
Survey take-off and detailed estimate based on Wills Builders’
database of historical material and labor costs in the Blue
Ridge area of Western North Carolina, Northern Georgia and
Upstate South Carolina.
What this means for you
and your project:
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ADJUSTMENTS COORDINATED WITH IN-PROGRESS PHASED ESTIMATING TO
SAVE YOU TIME & MONEY: Swift, to-the-point cost estimates
appropriate to the level of completion of the documents at each
phase of the developing design. What is so important about
this? In the typical Design-Bid-Build method, you do not
know what your project is going to cost until the design is done
and bid. What happens if the bids are for more money than
you want to spend? The design is done. So would you
scrap the project, or pay your architect big money to redesign
the project from scratch? Having our team’s estimates
during the design, before the technical documents are complete,
allows you to request that we modify certain things, which saves
you project time and money. |
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OUR TEAM’S
FAMILIARITY WITH EACH OTHER & YOUR SELECTION OF THE PROJECT
QUALITY: Since Wills Builders has worked with Rand Soellner
Architect on more projects than any other builder, they are
familiar with the specifications of each Quality Level that You
Select. Let’s say that again: You Select the Quality
Level You Want, not the builder, not the architect. We
work with you to give you what you want for the price you want. |
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UNDERSTANDING
OF WHERE YOUR DOLLARS WILL BE GOING: Estimating that allows you
to understand where your dollars will be going, before the
construction begins. This allows you to request
adjustments in the design to insure that your money is being
spent on your priorities. This is one of the chief
benefits of our Design-Build process. |
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