Developing a Winning Game Plan.

When you invest in a facility, you need a roadmap to success. Gray’s front-end design services offer you clarity and control over your project from its earliest days. We’ll review your goals, evaluate your project’s needs, and define what success looks like at every stage, giving you a full grasp of your options and the assurance that reality meets your expectations.

Our Services

Feasibility Studies

• Review project design requirements and preliminary budget.
• Conduct thorough observations to assess property conditions.
• Determine project risks and work to establish best-value solutions.
• Evaluate condition and efficacy of existing building and MEP systems.

Space Programming

• Conduct discussions to define expectations, purpose, and functional elements of the facility.
• Establish benchmarks, preferred alternatives, and balanced scope and budget for all needs affecting the project.
• Develop a comprehensive matrix that defines the project’s space and adjacency needs, including number and type of rooms, cross-functionality, and required facilities.

Conceptual Design

• Develop preliminary architectural building design based on customer’s requested aesthetics and functionality.
• Create and present design concepts for building façade and exterior.

Master Planning

• Identify long-term growth goals to inform potential on-site expansion or renovation.
• Create holistic site/campus plan to establish requirements for phased growth.
• Evaluate surrounding infrastructure, utility needs, and legal requirements for future projects.

Design Criteria Development

• Create refined vision of project through critical thinking and collaborative decision making to facilitate efficiency throughout the design phase.