Quantum builds and remodels commercial, industrial, agricultural, and custom residential projects. We set up teams tailored to the specific needs of the project, ensuring that each will be the best that they can be!

Our portfolio includes offices, commercial multi-family, custom residential, warehousing, food processing, manufacturing, laboratory, medical, educational, aviation, agricultural, maritime, retail, restaurant, recreational, civil, and much more!

This is certainly our most common question! Each building that we construct or remodel is custom and unique, meaning that the costs are calculated on a project by project basis and vary depending on site conditions, specific configuration of your building, and finishes you select.

The more information you have on your project (site, plans, finishes, selections), the more accurate an estimate can be. Prior to breaking ground on a project, we prefer to complete a “sticks and bricks” estimate where we break the project down to its individual components and price them out, to make sure we have the most accurate number possible.

If you’re just starting down the construction path and need budget numbers for planning and preconstruction, please contact us and a project manager will work with you.

The easiest way is to Contact Us and we can walk you through the first steps given your individual situation. Prior to beginning onsite construction, you’ll need to address the following:

• Partnering with Quantum for pre-construction and course of construction general contracting services
• Land acquisition
• Selecting a design team and creating a location-specific set of plans
• Permiting the project
• Setting up a budget and financing

Each of these items are somewhat dependent on each other, and our team can help you navigate through them!

Square foot numbers are a common metric used for pricing because they are simple to use. They are best suited for early project planning and later as a budget cross check. That’s about where their usefulness ends. For a simple example of why, consider floor coverings. There may be as much as a $20 difference between types of floor coverings; if that same floor covering is used throughout the project, the difference will be directly reflected in the square foot price, even if everything else is identical.

It’s also important to consider the components that make up a square foot price. Is it a complete project cost including design and permitting? Or is it strictly onsite construction services? Does it include general site development or just the building? How about items which are sometimes completed by the owner such as appliances and window coverings? Inclusion or exclusion of these items are not inherently correct or incorrect, but clearly you need to know how much of your project is covered by that square foot number.

Like pricing, schedule depends tremendously on project specifics. A warehouse on a developed piece of land may have a schedule measuring a few short months, while a large commercial site development or medical facility may take over a year. A simple cabin or accessory dwelling unit (ADU) will go up much faster than a large custom home.

Similar to budgeting, it’s also critical to consider what items are included in a project duration. It’s not unusual for preconstruction of a project to take longer than the construction itself. Preconstruction includes items such as land acquisition, design, SEPA, permitting, financing, budgeting, and more.

Our projects range from small repairs to multi-million dollar buildings and campus developments. We assess each project on a case-by-case basis to ensure that it fits into our current schedule, workload, and team allocation so that we can provide the best possible service. Contact us to talk with a project manager and to partner together on your project!

Quantum generally works in Skagit, Island, San Juan, Whatcom, and northern Snohomish counties. We try to live and work local to ensure that we can provide the best possible construction services. That said, we do sometimes travel within Washington State for certain projects, especially for previous customers (because our clients are the best!).

Yes and no. We have a long-established “design-build” track record for some types of industrial, commercial, and agricultural projects. In this, we act as the overall design lead and bring in architects, engineers, specialty vendors, and design-build subcontractors with experience in the project type. This works best for functional type buildings, such as mills, processing plants, hangars, storage buildings, office or storefront shells, and similar. We don’t have inhouse architects, preferring to create teams tailored to the project. We also provide inhouse design for small projects where engineering and architectural review are not required by the permitting process. Projects such as homes, commercial offices, restaurants, medical, and mixed-use generally benefit from a direct owner-architect relationship.

Contact us and we can help get you started down the best design path!