Leading the Build™ · 3BRE LLC
Every decision a founding school leader faces on the road to a building — programming, site control, design, bidding, and construction — supported by an interactive tool. Start with the diagnostic, or jump to the phase you're in.
Start the Readiness Scorecard → See the overviewTools that place a leader on the timeline and travel with them across every phase.
The narrative front door — the four-phase timeline, decision simulations, ownership approaches, and the tradeoffs behind each path.
Open → DiagnosticA short quiz that places a leader on the timeline and unlocks a personalized roadmap.
Open → PersonalizedEmail-unlocked next steps generated from the scorecard, tuned to where the leader stands today.
Open → Risk screenA 15-item, six-level review of a lease — surfaces the clauses that wreck school deals. Most useful in Phase 2.
Open →Define the school you are trying to build — forecast enrollment, set the budget envelope, and program your space before anyone draws a wall.
Long-range enrollment scenarios, grade by grade — set target class sizes and the growth ladder, and the tool derives classrooms needed, capacity, and average class size. Styled Excel export.
Open → ProgrammingTurns enrollment, grade band, and a staff roster into a room-by-room space program — with instruction-share %, dual-use flags, a target gross-SF ceiling, and a styled Excel export. Hands off cleanly to Phase 3 design.
Open →Validate zoning, utilities, access, and risk before you are committed — this is where the wrong site quietly costs years.
Scores and compares candidate sites against your facilities model, so the tradeoffs are explicit instead of anecdotal.
Open → FeasibilityThe feasibility study: space program → project cost → sources & uses → affordability, with financing scenarios, an equity sensitivity table, and a Phase 1 program import.
Open → Risk screenRun any lease or site-control document through a structured six-level risk screen before signing.
Open →Design discipline lives here — costs and scope are negotiated against reality, and the team that builds it gets chosen.
An interview guide paired with a weighted scorecard for choosing a contractor — the tally clients struggle with, made simple. Excel export. Carries into Phase 4.
Open → Design reviewA living log for design-review comments through DD and CD — grouped by drawing, with owner, follow-up flags, a status workflow, snapshots, and Excel export.
Open →From a summer-slam renovation to ground-up construction — the schedule must hold against the calendar that students show up on.
One living tracker for every open workstream — legal, financing, permitting, design, and construction — used from predevelopment straight through occupancy, so the team and the board always know where things stand.
Open → All phasesA construction draw budget in the AIA G703 tradition — hard, soft, and financing costs with change orders, a column per lender draw, and live completed / balance / % plus a Source of Funds check. Excel export.
Open → All phasesA date-driven Gantt — phases and tasks, drag-to-edit bars, critical-path and approval coloring, styled Excel export. Spans design through construction.
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