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Building a house with MVIVO

Building your dream home from conception to realisation can seem like a complicated endeavour. To make things more structured, building a home with MVIVO, one of the leading house builders in Sri Lanka, is a 9-step process from the first meeting to handover and beyond.

You can explore our modern house designs to see the style of homes we build. You can also look through completed and ongoing projects to understand how this process translates into a finished home. If you want to see the full specification behind every home we build, you can review what is included in an MVIVO home.

Client visiting the modern office of MVIVO and discussing building a house project.

STEP 1 Design consultation

For the first meeting (free of charge), we invite you to our head office in Colombo for a 60- to 90-minute consultation with one of our experts. During this session, we’ll discuss your vision for your home and introduce you to MVIVO’s approach to high-end home construction. If you decide to move forward, you can schedule a Site Inspection.

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MVIVO site inspection and land survey before house design and construction

STEP 2 Site inspection

A team from MVIVO, including an architect and engineer, will visit your building site and take essential measurements as well as complete an extensive checklist. Once we have collected all essential data together with the documents from the Council, we can start on the first design of your new home. From planning the site inspection to the first design takes about 14 days.

STEP 3 Feedback meeting

When designing your new home, your dedicated project architect will be in regular communication with you (via phone and email) about how you see the building.

Architectural design has many moving parts where everything needs to fit just right. All rooms need to be logically placed and properly sized with walking spaces needing to be convenient and logical, all while keeping the final look of the villa in mind.

Once the first design is completed, we plan a meeting with you at our office to go over the floor plan, 3D renders, and calculated budget. Feel free to give all the feedback you have in mind as we will incorporate this into the final design.

MVIVO design and engineering team in project feedback meeting, Colombo office

Luxury villa final design and budgeting session with floor plans, agreements and a bottle of prosecco with four glasses

STEP 4 Final design and budgeting

Once we settle on the final design, MVIVO prepares the formal agreement. We send you the draft version of the contract together with other documentation you can go over with your lawyer. When everything is agreed upon, we sign the contract and officially start the process of constructing your new MVIVO home.

STEP 5 Ground works and foundation

Every home starts with a solid foundation. Your MVIVO villa is built on a monolithic concrete ribbed beam foundation to avoid any settlement in the future. After the ready-mix concrete is poured, we leave 28 days for curing before starting on the superstructure.

Construction team pouring concrete foundations for high-end home in Sri Lanka

Worker assembling light steel frame superstructure for modern villa in Sri Lanka

STEP 6 Superstructure assembly

The superstructure of your building goes up in about three weeks. The structural steel core is 100% pre-designed with all MEP superhighways in place. From there on, the structural sheathing is installed as well as the multi-layered roof.

STEP 7 Exterior and interior

This is the most extensive step in building your new home, and about 60% of all materials are used in this phase. From the building insulation and exterior cavity wall to the MEP and full-height windows, everything is installed. Every detail is handled by our in-house team over the course of three months.

MVIVO construction worker sanding a white interior wall with safety gear inside a modern home in Sri Lanka.

homeowner manual MVIVO on countertop

STEP 8 Handover

Prior to moving into your new villa, you will get a full orientation tour from an MVIVO representative explaining all features of your MVIVO home. We also provide you with an extensive Homeowner's Manual that includes more information about the main items in your new home as well as instructions for periodic maintenance and all manufacturer literatures and product warranties.

STEP 9 Service and warranty

As a builder, our service extends well beyond the construction itself. Every MVIVO home is engineered, inspected, and built for long term performance, with careful attention to structure, materials, and the way the entire system works together.

We stand behind that quality, which is why every home comes with a twenty year structural warranty for complete peace of mind.

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Do you value our unique approach to home building? Planning a home construction project or investment? Or simply curious to explore how we do things? We are happy to guide you through the process.

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