Framework E
Confidential Aquatic Center by Framework E

Confidential Aquatic CenterIllinois, USA

Design + build under one contract.One price. The date we promised.

Detroit-founded design-build bureau

We don’t hand you drawings. We hand you the keys.

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Architects. Leaders. Community Builders™

Who we serve

Built for the owners public work depends on.

School districts, cities, nonprofits, healthcare providers, and recreation owners. Most have never managed a capital project, and they do not need to. We carry the whole building, from the first question to the day the doors open.

Complete Building Management

You sign one contract. We hand you a finished building.

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Design Framework Report™

Know what to build before you spend millions.

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School District Facilities

Bond passed. Now what?

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Municipal + Civic Projects

Public buildings that earn public trust.

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Nonprofit + Community Facilities

Turn your mission into a building.

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Sports + Recreation Facilities

Built for the neighborhood. Ready for championships.

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FrameworkBuild™

One team, one price, the date we promised.

We restore the architect as the fiduciary master builder, binding design, cost, and schedule under a Guaranteed Maximum Price and a fixed period of performance. No value engineering, no change-order games, no finger-pointing.

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Guaranteed Maximum Price

Cost locked before construction and defended through delivery.

Fixed period of performance

The keys turn over on the date promised.

Single source of accountability

One agreement, one team, from first concept to turnover.

Fiduciary alignment

Our incentives are bound to protecting your capital.

Selected work

Projects with public purpose.

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Capabilities

Design that performs beyond the drawing set.

Collaboration and community engagement guide work from the first question through implementation.

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Architecture + Engineering

One team designs and builds your project under a single contract, a guaranteed maximum price, and a fixed completion date.

Interiors

Interior environments shaped around experience, identity, and everyday performance, delivered with the building rather than after it.

Urban Design + Planning

Planning that balances resource efficiency, environmental quality, community voice, and long-term resilience.

ROx + Project Optimization

What to build, what it costs, how long it takes, and where the money comes from, decided before you commit to full design.

89Years of combined experience among principals
6.1 millionSquare feet of projects developed to date
5Major-league sports franchises served

Client perspective

“Your approach kept this thing on target and helped navigate through rocky waters. You made it an enjoyable process, and the Pistons will benefit for decades.”Jeff Bower · General Manager, Detroit Pistons

Ready to build?

Let’s put a price and a date on it.

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