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Services
Each item is tailored to your choice - from like-for-like to total new custom design. We offer multiple levels of service - from basic drafting to full architectural, engineering, and construction control.
Each option delivers different value based on your priorities. Understanding the difference is essential before signing any contract.
Selection to Meet Your Needs. Alternatives to Fit Your Budget.
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Our Service Menu
Drafting Only
Basic drafting means drawing your old layout or a layout with no design changes. This service is best for owners who already know exactly what they want.
This, along with your choice of like-for-like, is the lowest cost option.
No Design Fee
Design
This is where your rebuild becomes personal. We work with you to make your home more functional, tailored to your life, and smarter.
From family routines and furniture to outdoor access, privacy, and future use our architects translate your needs into a spatial design that works today and adapts for tomorrow.
Customized to Your Life-Style
Engineering
Safety, security, and comfort require engineering. We provide complete California code-compliant engineering including structural, fire-resistance, and MEP systems.
Includes: Structural (for seismic and wind safety), Fire-Resistance strategies and detailing, Mechanical, Electrical & Plumbing (MEP) systems, Soil and Foundation review and engineering, Site Surveying to establish legal and design boundaries.
Structural, Fire Resistance, MEP, Survey & Soil
Bidding
This is where TVA saves you the most money. Instead of handing your plans to one contractor and hoping for honesty, we manage a down-pricing reverse auction.
We don't just assist like most architects-we take full control of the bidding process on your behalf. Apples-to-apples contractor proposals, detailed specifications to eliminate change-order games. Savings of 15-35% are common.
Down-Pricing Auction
Documents
The owner's legal and financial control lives or dies in the documents especially specifications and construction schedules.
These are the same tracking tools that professional developers use now available to individual owners through TVA. We produce and manage a full set of documents tailored for both accurate bidding and contract protection.
Accurate Bid Pricing & Owner Legal Control
Contract
Contractors write contracts to protect themselves. We rewrite them to protect you.
TVA offers redlined, professionally reviewed construction contract language-correcting loopholes, vague terms, and hidden costs. We provide construction contracts that align with your budget, your plans, and your goals.