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In design-bid-build, an owner sits between an architect and a contractor and absorbs the cost when their scopes don't line up. Design-build puts design and construction under a single contract with MX Builders — one team accountable for the budget, the schedule, and the outcome, from the first sketch to the final walkthrough.
Design-bid-build hands a project to an architect, then bids it out to a separate contractor. Design-build collapses that handoff into one accountable team.
MX Builders is a new offering to outside owners — but the integrated model itself isn't untested.
MX Builders is the construction arm of MX Group, an active Houston-area real estate operator. The single-team, one-contract model described above is the same approach MX Builders already uses managing MX Group's own Houston-area property portfolio — coordinating design decisions and construction execution under one roof rather than passing a project between separate firms. That in-house track record is real; what's new is offering the same model to outside owners. We have not yet completed a design-build project for a third-party client, and we won't claim otherwise.
Design-build is a delivery model layered on top of general contracting — and the portfolio it's proven on is documented on our case studies page.
The point of design-build is that the same team carries the project through every phase — here's what that looks like in sequence.
We start with the owner's goals and space needs, sketching a concept the budget can actually support — before drawings get expensive to change.
Design and buildability get reviewed side by side, so the budget stays real as the design gets more detailed.
One team carries the design through permitting and approvals — no handoff between separate architect and contractor firms to slow it down.
The same team that designed the project builds it, so field questions get answered by the people who made the original decisions.
Final walkthrough and closeout with the owner — one point of contact accountable for the outcome from the first sketch to the last punch item.
Tell us about your project and we'll put together a design-build scope and timeline estimate — no obligation.
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