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Structural fees for retail-dollars per square foot

Structural fees for retail-dollars per square foot

Structural fees for retail-dollars per square foot

(OP)
We've been asked to provide a proposal for a retail project in California, about 200,000 sf. Never having done a retail project this large, I've been asking around and it seems that some of my friendly competitors price these jobs on a $/sf basis, instead of a percentage of contstruction cost, sheet count, etc. Anyone else have that experience? From what I've heard, about $1/sf is the going rate around here, which is pretty close to 0.75% of const. cost in this market.

Thanks for your help.

RE: Structural fees for retail-dollars per square foot

Yep. $0.80 to $1.25 per square foot, depending on the complexity of the project.

Mike McCann
MMC Engineering
http://mmcengineering.tripod.com

RE: Structural fees for retail-dollars per square foot

(OP)
Thanks. Now we just have to figure out how to do a good job for that fee!

RE: Structural fees for retail-dollars per square foot

Do you have standard details, standard notes, etc. Thing that mean you don't have to reinvent the wheel. In your proposal, you have to stipulate that there is a given level of complexity that you have to accommodate and that the design will be good, but, not necessarily optimum.

Dik

RE: Structural fees for retail-dollars per square foot

(OP)
Yes, we've been doing wood frame design for many years, mainly custom design though. This type of large wood frame retail job with lots of repetition is new to us. I guess in some ways I should look at it like a big apartment building (which we have indeed done a lot of). In those cases our fee is usually 0.80-0.90% of construction cost which is about $1.50/sf. Im guessing, and others confirm that single story retail should be less than 5 story apartments on a per sq ft basis.

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