For Owners & Developers

Preconstruction that starts free, backed by our historical data

Eleven Western gives owners free preconstruction help — ROM budgets, first-pass plan reviews, conceptual site reviews, and jurisdiction answers — grounded in 43 years of project historicals and followed up by a real person the same day. FreeCon, our instant self-serve toolset, opens to verified clients soon.

Start a preconstruction conversation → FreeCon: coming soon

What You Get

The help owners actually need, before spending a dollar

ROM Budget

Project type, square footage, market, finish level — an order-of-magnitude range drawn from EWB's completed-project history. The number you need before the number you sign.

Plan Review

Share a plan set and get a first-pass constructability and value-engineering read: missing information, coordination risks, and the VE questions worth asking your architect. Triage, not a stamp.

Conceptual Site Review

Before plans exist: rebuild-versus-remodel signals, environmental flags to investigate, zoning notes, and the questions that decide the deal.

Jurisdiction Q&A

Answers from a knowledge base built across every city we've pulled a permit in — always with a confirm-with-our-team caveat.

Advisory, always: every output is non-binding and clearly labeled. Site reviews say investigate, never cleared. Real projects get real estimates from real people.

Why free?

Because the data makes it cheap for us — and valuable for you

Owners have always called us for a gut-check number before a deal. FreeCon removes the phone tag: the same cost history our estimators work from, put to work on your project. And when you're ready to go from range to reality, you're already talking to the team that will build it.

Same-day
Response, every request
43 yrs
Of historicals behind every range
4
Sector teams to route you to
$0
Cost to you

FAQ

FreeCon, answered

What is FreeCon?

FreeCon is the name for EWB’s free preconstruction help: ROM budgets, plan opinions, conceptual site reviews, and jurisdiction answers, grounded in 43 years of our own project history. Today it runs through our team with a same-day response; the self-serve FreeCon toolset for verified clients is in active development.

Why would a contractor do preconstruction for free?

Because owners have always called us for a gut-check number before a deal, and the relationships that start there tend to become projects. The data makes it inexpensive for us to do well, and the follow-up conversation is where we earn the work.

Are these outputs binding estimates?

No. Everything in FreeCon is advisory and non-binding: directional ranges and first-pass opinions, clearly labeled. Site reviews flag items to investigate, never to consider cleared. Real projects get real estimates from our preconstruction team.

What happens after I ask for a budget?

A real person from the right sector team follows up the same day — with the range, the assumptions behind it, and the questions worth answering next.

Start with a number

Tell us the project. You'll get the range, the assumptions behind it, and a same-day call from the sector team.

Discuss a project → Meet our sector teams