Project Management

DMI is an interior design and project management consultancy practicing multiple project typologies.

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DMI provides U-HNWI clients with services exclusive to the considerations of design, operations, and real estate investment.

A tailored multi-disciplinary approach to project development is particularly critical to U-HNWI clients who maintain multiple assets in various locations and jurisdictions. DMI collaborates with architects, specialty consultants, contractors and procurement agents across the globe.

Representing over 25 years of international hotel and resort design and project management practice, DMI speaks the language of investors, operators, and guests.

A long-standing practitioner in the hospitality sector, DMI is uniquely positioned to provide early strategic feasibility and planning services that optimize opportunities of achievement throughout the project cycle. With extensive five-star brand design practice, FF&E manufacturing, prototype development, and installation logistics experience, clients are assured a cohesive delivery of services.

Retail design requires an almost equal degree of understanding of business management to that of design and construction. It is a sophisticated orchestration that operates on the interaction of human behavior with the built environment with a specific decisive objective.

A typology that is either autonomous or accompanies hotel and mixed-use developments, the portfolio of DMI includes branded retail as well as boutique establishments.

Strategy & Practice

Foundation

Established in response to the real estate industry’s demands to engage designers with understanding of the property development sector, DMI consolidated the many years of client-side experience with that of design and construction practice. This is the primary principle that governs DMI and its posture of service to its clients – that achievement can only be fulfilled by consolidate multi-disciplinary practice.

Critical Qualifications

Whether a project is a multimillion-dollar mixed-use development, a single-family residence, or bespoke furniture, there are essential skills that a design professional is required to develop to legitimately advance workable proposals to a client.

The fundamental qualities that clients can expect from DMI are:

Design Innovation
Technical Acumen
Construction & Manufacturing Knowledge
Project Management Proficiency
Communication Skills

Process & Methodology

Strategic Planning

Experienced in the dynamics of numerous project typologies, DMI provides services that integrate client objectives within the broader context of disciplines. These include:

Timely initiation of cost estimating, with identification of risks associated with procurement logistics, potential exposure to added inflation and escalation rates, and supply constraints.
Efficient programming that optimizes concurrent activities, averts redundancies, and accounts for the identification of delay risks.
Strategic scheduling of design development for custom and long-lead items that demand sophisticated technical solutions, prototype phasing, and navigation of supply and logistical constraints.

Project Phase Development

As an international practitioner, DMI adopts a hybrid of the AIA and RIBA project phase structures, and integrates pre-design and post-construction phases and activities.

Projects differ in scope and magnitude. The structure of project phases is outlined as follows:

Beyond The Traditional

The process of creativity is one that can be ambiguous to all but the individuals involved in its development. Designing a built environment is a highly elaborate and iterative method where multiple objectives and constraints are considered in the development of feasible solutions. Proposals are tested to multiple measures of performance, and revised and retested until project objectives are optimally realized.

The most apparent considerations are those that are defined and predetermined, such as building code compliance, sustainable practices, occupant area and usage requirements, and the like.

The very real challenge is the qualification of aesthetic value – understanding what constitutes legitimate and tangible value to the total experience of a built environment.

DMI’s working philosophy is that professional design requires an impartial and intelligent process. The aesthetic framework of a project is developed, documented, and integrated with design, technical, and operational contexts. Depending on building typology, various degrees of the following factors are integrated into the development of design proposals:

Sensory Perception
Human Kinesthetics & Experiential Phasing
Neuroaesthetics