How We Work
TOCCI gets involved early, uses advanced tools to make budgets more reliable, and helps the design team make better decisions faster.
We use Target Value Design (TVD) to treat the budget as a design constraint from the start, Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DfMA) principles to build efficiency into the design itself, and digital twins to test how systems interact before anyone picks up a tool.
The goal: use preconstruction to solve problems that construction can’t afford to have.
What we do
Engineer the project, deliver the result.
TOCCI comes to every engagement as engineers of what’s still possible — not coordinators of what’s already been decided. We treat risk, cost, and revenue as levers, and we pull them early.
That means finding the exposures that kill projects before they reach a shovel. It means building a cost model that travels with the design, so every decision carries a price tag before it’s locked in. And it means asking the questions that make the pro forma work — unit mix, amenity trade-offs, delivery sequencing, financing milestones — before someone else stops asking them.
You get back a better project than the one you brought us.
Risk Engineering
- De-risking drawings to minimize RFIs, change orders and unknowns
- Applying DfMA (Design for ease of Manufacturing and Assembly) to make trade partners more efficient.
- Creating a LOD 400 model (fabrication-ready) for MEPFP before subcontractors bid the drawings to substantially lower MEPFP costs
- TAKT scheduling to sequence work predictably and de-risk hand-off from one trade to the next
By substantially de-risking design and schedule as described above, we can selectively and safely increase our risk with subcontractor selection to access the lean and cost-effective subcontractors
Cost Engineering
- Crowdsourcing cost reduction ideas from every subcontractor bidding the project to unearth all efficiency ideas
- Maximizing subcontractor scope certainty and sharp pricing through our feedback loop + iterating process
Sharp pricing starts with sharp scope. We build the cost model before the bids go out, so subcontractors price what’s actually being built
Revenue Engineering
- Massing optimization to increase building efficiency or rent.
- Delivery sequencing to hit financing milestones and unlock draws earlier
- Identifying opportunities to increase net rentable area without increasing gross
By looking at revenue as an engineering problem — not a market assumption — we help owners build projects that perform, not just projects that get built.
We want to know: What are you trying to build? Schedule a conversation.
Our tools
A master craftsman is known by the quality of their tools and the precision of their work. Today, CM’s have many tools at their disposal. We demonstrate our capability by the tools we select to tackle our client’s challenges.
Project setup
The problem
By the time most teams understand what a project actually requires, it’s too late to act on it.
The solution
Build an accurate picture of the finished project before construction starts — scope, risk, and long-lead items identified early enough to change outcomes.
The tools
- Logistics Plan
- NFPA + Safety Plans
Strategy + Optimization
The problem
Most teams figure out their project strategy as they go.
The solution
We set strategy before the first shovel — running structured planning sessions that surface risk, align the team, and lock in the approach while there’s still time to change it.
The tools
- Project Execution Planning
- Design Phase Management
- Energy Modeling
- Syncro (4D modeling)
Execution
The problem
There is a narrow approach to project execution: “I did what you told me to do.”
The solution
Think like an owner, act like the end user
The tools
- GIS/Total Station Controls
- Reality Capture
- Takt Time Planning/Line of Balance Scheduling
- Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DfMA)
- Direct from Model Fabrication
- Thermal Performance Systems
Commissioning + Turnover
The problem
Building managers rarely get the information they need to effectively operate the building.
At the end of a long project, there’s a rush to turn over the minimal viable products needed to operate the building for the next 50 years.
The solution
Establish regular discipline throughout the duration project to
- Select the preferred facilities management system (FM) to receive captured data
- Avoid the last-minute scramble by capturing data as systems are installed
- Validate FM functionality at commissioning.
The tools
- Digital As-Builts
- Digital Twin
- Facilities Management Systems (FM)
- Building Automation System (BAS)
Infinite possibilities in defined spaces
Let’s work together to future-proof your next project to perform and delight.