Effective Project Management & A Highly Skilled Team
Transcend Construction is a quality company engaged in residential and commercial construction projects in the New York metropolitan area. In the tabs below we discuss who we are and how we deal with clients. Please review them.
Transcend Construction: An Experienced Quality Company
Transcend Construction is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York and operates throughout the New York metropolitan area. We are dedicated to providing quality work and personal service within your budget for your construction project. We specialize in townhouses, brownstones, coops & condos and commercial properties. We are skilled project managers and are experts in interior and exterior construction technologies.
Nick Caragiulo, the president and founder, formed Transcend Construction in 2007 from several companies he owned and operated over the prior decade. Nick brings his decade and a half of extensive ownership, management and technical experience to the operation of Transcend Construction.
Nick and his team bring the full range of project management and exterior & interior construction skills plus experience to your project.
Please review the other tabs on this page to see how we work with you to ensure we understand each other and work well together. In other words: Getting the Job Done.
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Getting The Job Done
Working Together
A successful construction project requires effort, communication, understanding and cooperation on everyone’s part.
Together: Good Communication
Good communication is essential to a successful project. Including:
- You communicating your requirements to us
- Transcend ensuring we fully understand your requirements
- Transcend explaining what will be needed to meet your goals
- Transcend keeping you informed on the progress of your project
- You clearly explaining both satisfaction and dissatisfaction
- Transcend promptly & clearly explaining problems and the unexpected
- You agreeing or disagreeing to proposed solutions to problems
- etc.
Please read about our part in a successful project, and about your part in a successful project and then please Contact us for your project.
Our Part In A Succesful Project
Understanding You
We are responsible for understanding you and your project. We will endeavor to learn your tastes as related to the project and the details of what you want done.
Good Estimates
In order for you to make decisions and for us to deliver your vision good estimates are essential.
Our estimates include all management, labor and generic materials. Generic materials include items such as sheetrock, spackle, primer paint, standard ceiling paint, structural lumber, nails, etc.
Our estimates do NOT include non-generic items such as finish paint, cabinetry, appliances, kitchen and bath fixtures, chandeliers, etc. unless explicitly specified by the customer to be included.
Please see “Management” below.
Skills & Experience
Our employees are skilled, experienced and motivated to do good work. Our managers will ensure that we assign a team to your project that has the required skills and experience. This includes sub-contractors.
Management
The level of management involvement in your project will affect the estimate. Good management is not free. Good management is cost effective.
The team assigned to your project will have an experienced team leader. There will be a foreman assigned.
The time the foreman will spend onsite will depend on the complexity and uniqueness of the project. This can range from once or twice a day to full time onsite. It is not unusual during a project for the foreman to be onsite full time for some phases and once a day for others.
All projects will have a project manager assigned.
Please read about your part in a successful project and read about us together in a successful project and then contact us for your project.
Your Part In A Successful Resdential Project
Know Thyself
You need to understand what you want and what it will take to deliver it. The more specific you are will allow us to provide a better estimate.
We understand that many clients will need our feedback before they can provide the needed specificity. If you have difficulty expressing your requirements, we can establish a small contract with you and develop a set of requirements for you with your participation.
Express Your Vision
You are going to live with the result of your project for many years to come. You want to enjoy it. Now is the time to think about it, discuss it with your spouse or significant other and get an expression of yourself and your taste. See “Know Your Budget” next.
Know Your Budget
Money is the root of much angst. You know what you can afford, endeavor to accept and work with it.
Remember our estimate generally does not include the non-generic items. Therefore, if our estimate is close to your budget and does not include these items, we are already over budget. You need to know what the non-generic items will cost you and evaluate our estimate accordingly.
Before you accept our estimate, select and price all of your finish paint, cabinetry, appliances, kitchen and bath fixtures, chandeliers, fancy face plates, etc. Add their total cost to our estimate. Remember, unless otherwise specified, our labor estimate is based on standard types. If you choose a specialty designer tub after the project has begun, we may have to revise our labor estimate.
Shop around on the web and at home improvement dealers, you may find a standard item that is very close to the specialty item you have your heart set on. If you want, we can assist you with this.
Living With Your Project
Many people will be living in their home while the project is executed.
If you will be living with the project, while it is in progress, you will have to adapt. You may have to pack and store things. Furniture will be moved about. We will endeavor to leave the site broom clean at the end of each work day.
If you have one bath and we are gut renovating it, you will probably have to spend a few days elsewhere.
If your home is being gut renovated, you will have to live elsewhere for some time. When possible, we will endeavor to sequence the project so you can move back before completion.
Please read about our part in a successful project, and about us together in a successful project and then please Contact us for your project.