There are some amazing builders in our industry that I’ve been fortunate to work with — men and women who lead teams with great success while at the same time building great leaders beside them. It’s an attitude driven by doing all the things the right way, along with a care for people and clients that brings great results. We should begin every project with the end in mind — a safe and successful execution, proper installations, great functionality, team building and client satisfaction. We interview, get pumped up for the wins, teams get assembled, projects are delivered with high expectations and then we take it to the next opportunity. Let’s zoom in on where the system installations represent a successful project and what we leave behind.
In the kickoff phase, many projects today are modeled by the construction team using BIM coordination and clash detection. This greatly impacts and improves the constructability of the systems being installed and also identifies conflicts early. Modeling also drives prefabrication opportunities if done early enough. There is a lot of variability in the level of coordination in design, depending on the amount of progress the design team has made when the modeling effort begins.