You.
About to sign a number you cannot check.
You are the only one at the table not doing this for a living. I read what you are signing, in plain language, before you sign it.
Your architect draws it. Your builder prices it.
Neither of them is paid to protect your money.
I see what will go wrong before it is built.
And I bring the bill down to what was earned.
Before you sign, let me look.
One person on your side of the table.
I see what will go wrong before it is built, and I bring the bill down to what was earned. Let me read the contract, the drawings and the price before you sign.
BE Design Build Management. Toronto, the GTA and across Canada.
Send me the contractWhat I do
Two things. There is no third.
Most owners find out what their contract really says when the first change order arrives.
The gap
Nobody on your project is paid to protect your money.
Your architect's work ends at the drawings. Your builder is paid to build what is drawn, and paid again for anything beyond it. Nobody at that table holds your side, and that gap gets paid for in change orders.
It is never dramatic. The heating was sized by the company selling it and nobody asked for the calculation. A duct takes the ceiling height you were promised. A change gets built first and priced afterwards. All of it is money.
Who I am
Three sides of the table.
After completing his architecture degree, Berke Eren went straight into large-scale projects, working across both design and management. As a licensed architect in Turkey, he held key roles on projects in Turkey and the Netherlands.
Today, as a certified project manager, he delivers full-service project management on every project he takes on, from concept to completion.
- 01
Architect
Licensed in Turkey. Projects in Turkey and the Netherlands.
- 02
Design and management
Large-scale projects, on both sides of the drawing.
- 03
Project manager
Certified. Concept to completion.
Projects
Projects we were involved in.
Who this is for
I work for you. Everyone else at the table is better off for it.
Your architect.
Wants to design, not chase money.
I write the brief before they start and defend their design on site. I never design. That is theirs.
Your builder.
Loses honest bids to vague ones.
One scope for every bidder. Decisions in days. Invoices paid on time. Only a builder with something to hide dislikes that.
How I am paid
- You pay me. Nobody else does. No referral fee or commission from any builder or supplier.
- The construction contract is between you and your builder. I never hold your money.
- I shortlist. You decide. Three prices against one scope.
- If I have worked with a bidder before, I tell you before you choose.
Engagement
Read it, or run it.
Read it.
A fixed-fee review of the contract, the drawings and the budget. Two questions answered in writing: what will go wrong when this is built, and what in this price is not earned. Then you decide what to do with it, including nothing.
Run it.
I hold the project end to end. The brief, the tender, the schedule, the change orders, the record, and the closeout. One person on your side of the table, from before the first drawing to the last holdback release.
Most projects start with the first and move to the second once the number stops being a surprise.
What actually lands in your inbox
- What the contract obliges you to, in plain language.
- What the price covers, and the work it quietly leaves out.
- Every gap between the drawings and the specification, listed one by one.
- The clauses that will cost you money, with the number written beside them.
- What I would negotiate, what I would accept, and what I would walk away from.
Getting started
Three steps, and the first one costs you nothing.
Send what you have.
The drawings, the contract, the quote, whatever exists. Even a sketch and a number are enough to start.
I read it against the money.
What the contract obliges, what the price covers, what is missing. You get it back in plain language, in writing.
You decide with the gap in front of you.
Then I either hand it back or stay on and hold the line through the build.
Questions
The objections, answered straight.
Let's have a conversation about your build
The cheapest time to bring me in is before you sign.
Toronto, the GTA and across Canada, from a single house renovation to commercial and institutional buildings. Tell me where the project is, what stage it is at, and what is worrying you about it.