Hi Melanie, Here's the cleaned-up comparison and questions for both architect proposals for the Elver Residence at Ayala Greenfield Estates. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PROPOSAL COMPARISON: ELVER RESIDENCE Phase 8C, Block 9, Lot 29 — Ayala Greenfield Estates, Calamba, Laguna Lot Area: 503 sqm ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ DESIGN SPECS - Imagimax: 2-storey residence, 400 sqm floor area - Casas+Architects: 3-storey residence (basement + entry + upper), 500 sqm floor area Important: Casas proposes 100 sqm more floor area and an extra level (basement with gym, server/IT room, maid's quarters). This significantly impacts both design fees and construction costs. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FEE BREAKDOWN ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ARCHITECTURAL + ENGINEERING DESIGN Imagimax — PHP 2,150,400 (VAT inclusive) Architecture: PHP 1,600,000 (P4,000/sqm x 400 sqm) Engineering: PHP 320,000 (P800/sqm x 400 sqm) Casas+Architects — PHP 3,800,000 (VAT inclusive) Architecture: PHP 2,500,000 Engineering: PHP 1,300,000 INTERIOR DESIGN Imagimax — PHP 952,000 (VAT inclusive) Base rate: P2,500/sqm x 400 sqm = P1,000,000 15% bundle discount applied = P850,000 + 12% VAT Casas+Architects — PHP 1,400,000 (VAT inclusive) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ TOTAL FEES SUMMARY ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ IMAGIMAX CASAS+ARCHITECTS Arch + Engineering PHP 2,150,400 PHP 3,800,000 Interior Design PHP 952,000 PHP 1,400,000 TOTAL PHP 3,102,400 PHP 5,200,000 Cost per sqm PHP 7,756/sqm PHP 10,400/sqm Floor Area 400 sqm 500 sqm Price Difference: PHP 2,097,600 (Casas is 67% more expensive) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ TIMELINE COMPARISON ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Casas+Architects (stated in proposal): Pre-Design + Concept: 6 weeks Schematic Design: 6 weeks Design Development: 3 months Contract Documentation: 2 months Bidding: TBD Construction: 12 months Estimated Total: ~22-24 months (design to move-in) Imagimax: No timeline provided in their proposal — needs to be requested. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PAYMENT SCHEDULE COMPARISON ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ IMAGIMAX (Arch + Engineering — PHP 2,150,400): Acceptance: 10% = PHP 215,040 Schematic Design: 20% = PHP 430,080 Design Development: 30% = PHP 645,120 Contract Documents: 30% = PHP 645,120 Bidding Phase: 10% = PHP 215,040 IMAGIMAX (Interior Design — PHP 952,000): Acceptance: 10% = PHP 95,200 Schematic Design: 30% = PHP 285,600 Design Development: 30% = PHP 285,600 Furniture Procurement:20% = PHP 190,400 Styling: 10% = PHP 95,200 CASAS+ARCHITECTS (Arch + Engineering — PHP 3,800,000): Mobilization: 15% = PHP 570,000 Project Definition & Concept: 10% = PHP 380,000 Schematic Design: 20% = PHP 760,000 Design Development: 20% = PHP 760,000 Tender Documents: 10% = PHP 380,000 Contract Documentation: 15% = PHP 570,000 Construction (12 months): 10% = PHP 380,000 CASAS+ARCHITECTS (Interior Design — PHP 1,400,000): Mobilization: 15% = PHP 210,000 Project Definition & Concept: 10% = PHP 140,000 Schematic Design: 20% = PHP 280,000 Design Development: 20% = PHP 280,000 Tender Documents: 10% = PHP 140,000 Contract Documentation: 15% = PHP 210,000 Construction (12 months): 10% = PHP 140,000 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHAT YOU GET WITH EACH ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CASAS+ARCHITECTS ADVANTAGES: + 3-storey design with basement (gym, server room, maid's quarters) + 100 sqm more floor area + Construction phase services (12-month monitoring, punch listing) + Detailed pre-design (site analysis, risk assessment, massing options) + Bidding phase + contractor coordination during build + Established Makati-based firm with named principals + Clear project timeline provided IMAGIMAX ADVANTAGES: + Significantly lower total cost (saves PHP 2.1M on design fees) + 15% interior design discount when bundled with architecture + Both services payable to one firm (simpler admin) + Lower per-phase payment amounts (easier on cash flow) IMAGIMAX GAPS: - No construction phase monitoring included - Smaller floor area / fewer levels proposed - Fewer included site visits (8 total vs Casas ongoing) - No timeline provided ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ QUESTIONS FOR IMAGIMAX ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Dear Arch. Miko / Imagimax Team, Thank you for the proposal for the Elver Residence. Before we proceed, we'd like to clarify a few points: 1. SCOPE ALIGNMENT — We are considering a 3-storey design (basement/lower level + entry level + upper level) with approximately 500 sqm total floor area. Can you provide a revised quote for this expanded scope? 2. TIMELINE — What is your estimated timeline from contract signing to completion of all design phases? Please break down per phase: - Project Definition - Schematic Design - Design Development - Contract Documents - Bidding Phase 3. CONSTRUCTION PHASE — Your proposal excludes construction monitoring. Do you offer this as an add-on? If so, what would be the additional cost for a 12-month build? 4. PROJECT MANAGEMENT — Do you offer full-time site supervision or project management services? If so, please provide a separate quote. 5. TEAM — Who would be the lead architect and primary point of contact throughout the project? 6. INTERIOR DESIGN TIMELINE — Since both architectural and interior design are under Imagimax, how do the interior design phases overlap with the architectural phases? 7. PORTFOLIO — Can you share 2-3 completed residential projects of similar scale in the Laguna/Cavite area? We look forward to your response. Best regards, Mr. & Mrs. Erdal Elver ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ QUESTIONS FOR CASAS+ARCHITECTS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Dear Ms. Del Castillo-Go / Casas+Architects Team, Thank you for the comprehensive proposal for the Elver Residence. We have a few clarifications: 1. TIMELINE CONFIRMATION — Your proposal indicates: - Pre-Design & Concept: 6 weeks - Schematic Design: 6 weeks - Design Development: 3 months - Contract Documentation: 2 months - Construction: 12 months - Bidding: TBD Can you estimate the bidding phase duration? What is the total timeline from contract signing to move-in ready? 2. CONSTRUCTION PHASE SCOPE — Your 10% construction phase fee (PHP 380,000) covers monthly progressive billings over 12 months. How many site visits per month does this include? Does this serve as project management, or would we still need a separate PM? 3. INTERIOR DESIGN TIMELINE — How do the interior design phases run alongside the architectural phases? Sequential or parallel? 4. BUDGET FLEXIBILITY — Is there room to negotiate the overall fee, particularly if we sign within the next 30 days? Any discount for early or lump-sum payment? 5. EXCLUSIONS COST ESTIMATE — For the excluded items (landscape design, specialty lighting, acoustic design, permitting liaison), can you provide ballpark costs so we can budget the full project accordingly? 6. PORTFOLIO — Can you share completed residential projects of similar scale and budget range? We look forward to your response. Best regards, Mr. & Mrs. Erdal Elver ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ STRATEGIC RECOMMENDATION ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ These proposals are not apples-to-apples due to the floor area and storey difference. Before choosing: 1. Get Imagimax to requote for the same 3-storey, 500 sqm scope — then compare on equal terms. 2. Clarify whether Casas's construction monitoring replaces a separate project manager. 3. Define your construction budget target. Design fees are typically 8-15% of total build cost, which means: - At Imagimax rates: total build could be PHP 20-39M - At Casas rates: total build could be PHP 35-65M Once both quotes are on the same scope, the real comparison becomes clear. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Prepared by MelAI — April 1, 2026 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━