Architectural Prices for designing a Project

Designing a project involve several plans when is done by a professional.

More detailed your project is beforehand more  asureness you will have that your ideas will be just as you want them to be.

Architectural / Engineering cost usually constitute between 6% to 15% of the entire project cost and could be divided as

follow:

Pre-panning 4%

      General ideas, concept development, location revision, norms and regulation, preliminary plans and permits analysis.

Architectural Project 6%

         Working Plans Design including elevation, section, detail drawings and job supervision.

Electrical Installation 1.5%      Planning and Supervision

Pluming and A/C 1.5%              Planning and Supervision

Structural 2%                             Planning and supervision

                                                 Construction Price

  Prices for any Architectural or Construction are greatly influence by many factor such as:

 Just to name a few, you should also consider:

Inflation and market condition. Usually the cost of residential building increases 6% to 11% per year, if it will be severals years before you begin remember to include inflation to the cost of the estimate.

Cost Over runs. Wich occur usually by changes in the project and unforeseen problems. It is always a good idea to allow aditional 10% to cover unexpected costs.

 Cost of the Residencial Construction Project in Yucatan will very depend of the above mentionate factors, but it will be safe to assume that the cost in Merida and the inland location will start from $5,500 MX per square meters, beach location will start from $8,000 MX per square meter (Or $45 US per sq/ft in Merida and $65 US per sq/ft Yucatan Beach) For Construction in 2009.

The above prices are taking in consideration  that per square meters count the cover spaces, including terraces and other spaces that have any kind of roof.