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Design
Build Contracting
We provide turnkey solutions that significantly
reduce the cost and increase the efficiency
of enhancements to your material handling
operations through a systems approach
covering four phases:
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1. Concept
Development – planning, conceptual
design, and budgeting
2. Detailed Design
– final systems drawings for permits
and regulatory sign off
3. Full implementation
– complete project management and
turnkey installations
4. Post implementation
– continuous post-installation customer
care services |
Dedicated
to the purpose of creating the least
operational costs for the client’s business,
this approach creates a working team
of talents and resources most organizations
do not have on staff.
Following project definition, the
team typically includes such diverse
talents as:
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Architect
• All
client operations departments, such
as: |
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o Production
o Warehouse
o Facilities
o Management Information Services
o Finance
o Marketing
o Customer Service Structural Engineer |
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Fire Protection Engineer
• Operations
Designer
• General
Contractors and Subcontractors
• Selected
computer hardware & software
vendor resources
• Computer
simulation and specialists in any
required disciplines, as needed. |
The
design approach is from the inside out.
First, defining the client’s operational
needs, then moving on to conceptualize
the operation and layouts within clearly
defined spaces, and then sizing and
defining the building attributes. |
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The benefits of this approach
are considerable:
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The
vast range of talents and their
specialized experiences are utilized
efficiently |
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Precious time is used to identify and
conceptualize the most practical
solutions and their
alternatives for the clients’ present
and future needs.
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Allows quick analysis of financial
viability and justification trials |
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Enables clear communication between
all participants throughout the
project |
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Results in a practical program for
implementation with least interruption
to ongoing business support.
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In the past, the difficulty
has been to identify and recruit people and
resources to meet these challenges and the
full range of client needs – from start-ups
and re-engineering of existing operations
in a wide spectrum of industrial, economic
and geographic diversity.
In the context of this approach, our specialty
is to assist architects, developers, and clients
in designing facilities from the inside out,
and then implementing the client-approved
plans. The first step in this process is to
completely understand operations, function-by-function,
supported by historical and projected data
validated by test and observations.
Obtaining client agreement in this collaborative
effort is the threshold beyond which we undertake
the conceptual development of quantified designs
and options. Improved productivity, controlled
cost of future operations, high customer service
levels, quality and security issues, inventory
management, easily managed controls and disciplines
are our chief targets.
We help
our clients get optimum
usable space and facility attributes for their
operations by teaming our talents with those
of client and architect.
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