Resources · ProWise Construction
Use this hub to move from early budget planning to delivery-model decisions, engineering review, and project-fit conversations. Start with the calculator if you are still at feasibility stage; use the contract and engineering resources when scope, risk, or permitting questions start to shape procurement.
Budget Planning
Use the calculator to generate a Class D conceptual cost range for Ontario industrial and commercial projects. It is most useful for feasibility checks, early budget conversations, and deciding whether a project needs deeper contractor or consultant review.
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Before comparing bids or choosing a delivery path, make sure the estimate class, assumptions, and contract structure are clear. These resources explain how a construction budget is layered, how early construction ranges work and how fixed-price, cost-plus, and construction management models shift cost visibility and risk.
Some construction questions should be reviewed by an engineering consultant before a budget or schedule is treated as reliable. Structural changes, MEP tie-ins, OBC Part 3 triggers, PSHSR requirements, equipment installations, and sealed permit documentation can all affect construction scope. ProWise Engineering handles those professional engineering and consulting questions on prowise.ca, with coordinated handover when the project also moves into construction.
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If you already know the project type or delivery need, these pages help narrow the next step before you contact the construction team.
Cost Guides
Ten guides, each giving a Class D cost range (±20–30%, Q4 2025 benchmarks) for one building type, with the scope assumptions, regional variation, soft-cost overlays, and regulatory triggers that move the number. Read the guide for your project type, then run the calculator with your own inputs.
New-build warehouse and distribution space, GTA core vs. secondary Ontario markets, with clear-height and site-servicing adjustments.
Read the warehouse guideRefrigerated and freezer warehouse construction, including envelope, refrigeration plant, and floor-slab premiums over dry storage.
Read the cold storage guideOffice fit-out and tenant improvement ranges by finish level, with landlord-work, base-building, and MEP reuse assumptions.
Read the office TI guideQuick-service and full-service restaurant build-outs, including kitchen exhaust, grease interceptor, and franchise-standard premiums.
Read the restaurant guideNew long-term care and seniors' care buildings, with Ministry design-standard, resident-home-area, and MEP-intensity drivers.
Read the long-term care guideAll ten guides in one place: warehouse, manufacturing plant, industrial retrofit, cold storage, self-storage, office TI, medical office, restaurant, daycare, and long-term care.
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