General contractor in Batumi: houses, guest houses, commercial buildings

General contractor in Batumi: one contract and one party responsible

A general contractor in Batumi is responsible for the whole house, not for a single trade. They draw up the schedule, buy the materials, hire the crews and specialists, run the site, accept concealed works and hand over the house with its documents. You sign one contract, deal with one manager and accept stages against signed records. If the junction between the roof and a wall leaks, or a window does not fit its opening, sorting that out is our job, not yours.

What a general contractor does

• keeps the overall construction schedule and adjusts it when the weather or deliveries change;
• buys and accepts materials against the schedule of materials;
• hires crews and specialists and is responsible for their work;
• prepares applications for water, power and gas connections;
• organises the site: hoarding, storage, waste removal, safety;
• keeps the works log, concealed works records and photo reports;
• hands over the house and helps with commissioning and registration.

The order of the works themselves, from surveys to landscaping, is described on the stages of building a house page.

General contracting, several contractors or managing it yourself

Separate contractors are sometimes cheaper on paper, but the difference often goes on idle time and rework at the junctions. If you choose general contracting and still want an independent view of the site, bring in your own engineer: that is not duplication but control on the client's side; more on the technical supervision page.

Subcontractors and utilities

Some work is done by specialists: bored piles, pools, lifts, ventilation, complex glazing. We choose them ourselves, sign contracts with them and answer to you for their work just as for our own. Connections to the city networks are made by the utility companies themselves: Batumis Tskali, Energo-Pro Georgia and SOCAR Georgia Gas. We prepare the applications and designs, obtain the technical conditions and put the connections into the schedule so that the house is not left waiting for water and power after the finishes are done.

Site and schedule

Every house has a site manager who is on site every working day, keeps the works log, accepts deliveries and checks the base before each next stage. We fence the site, keep materials under a shelter and remove waste as it builds up, not at the end of the job. We agree the plan for the week ahead with you and send a photo and video report once a week. In Batumi we build the schedule around the rain: we try not to put concrete and roofing into the wettest months, and we bring in materials that are afraid of moisture closer to when they are needed. How we organise procurement is on the construction materials procurement page.

Contract and payment

The general contracting agreement sets out the scope of work, the price and duration of each stage, the acceptance procedure and the guarantee. The advance goes on materials and the first stage, and after that you pay once each stage has been accepted against a signed record. What else is worth checking in the contract is covered on the turnkey construction contract page. How the payment schedule works and whether a house can be built in phases is on the stage payments page.

If you already have contractors

Sometimes an owner already has a crew they know for the shell, or their own window installer. Then we can take on the general contractor role without doing the works ourselves: draw up the overall schedule, coordinate the junctions between trades, accept stages and run the site. Before starting we look through your contractors' agreements and estimates so that no work is left at the junctions that nobody has taken on: waterproofing under windows, roof abutments, embedded sleeves for services. In this case payment is monthly. Those who do the work answer for its quality, and we answer for the schedule, the junctions and acceptance.

Houses, guest houses and commercial buildings

Under general contracting we build private houses and villas, guest houses, mini-hotels and commercial buildings: shops, offices, warehouses, cafes. Commercial projects add fire safety requirements, higher loads on the networks and often a fixed opening date that the whole schedule is built around. What buildings we build is on the commercial construction page.

How much general contracting costs

Building a house under general contracting to white frame costs from 1 050 ₾ per m². A masonry house shell from 690 ₾ per m², a mid-range turnkey house from 1 680 ₾ per m², a turnkey guest house from 1 920 ₾ per m². The general contractor role with your own contractors from 3 480 ₾ per month; for comparison, technical supervision of construction from 1 320 ₾ per month. The final cost is set from the design, after a site visit and an agreed estimate.