Desert Vista Behavioral Health
Role: General Contractor
Project Components:
Mayo Hospital
Role: Subcontractor
Project Components:
Auto Owners
Role: Subcontractor
Project Components:
Estrella Mountain Community College Central Plant Upgrade
Role: Construction Manager at Risk
Project Components: Remove/replace concrete pads and footings, install two new chillers and three new cooling towers, relocate one chiller from PVCC
Subcontractors: IMCOR Mechanical, Sturgeon Electric, Johnson Controls, UpRight Steel, Don's Custom Painting
Main Challenges: Schedule, budget, phasing, revising & upgrading controls and energy management systems
Solution: Pre-purchase chillers and cooling towers, selecting quality subcontractors
Paradise Valley Community College Central Plant Upgrade
Role: Construction Manager at Risk
Project Components: Addition of one chiller, replace two duplex cooling towers with three new cooling towers, pads and footings, steel revision.
Subcontractors: Metro Mechanical, Sturgeon Electric, Johnson Controls
Main Challenge: School schedule and related phasing, limited budget
Solution: Use of quality subcontractors, prepurchase of cooling towers to lock pricing
Chandler Gilbert Community College Central Plant Upgrade
Role: Construction Manager at Risk
Project Components: Add one chiller, replace two existing duplex cooling towers with three new cooling towers, related concrete and steel framing revisions
Subcontractors: Metro Mechanical, Sturgeon Electric, Johnson Controls
Main Challenges: Schedule, budget, phasing
Solution: Quality subcontractors, prepurchase big ticket items
Pipefitter's Apprenticeship Bldg 3: New Central Plant
Role: General Contractor
Project Components: All new central plant and learning facility, metal building, mechanical yard, CMU wall and gate
Subcontractors: Kinetics Mechanical, Commonwealth Electric, G&V Masonry, Upright Steel, Johnson Controls, Desert Painting
Main Challenge: Restricted budget
Solution: Self-perform concrete, drywall, and metal studs
Mesa Community College Central Plant Upgrade
Role: Construction Manager at Risk
Project Components: Replace one chiller, replace cooling towers, relocate one chiller to estrella mountain community college, revise and upgrade control systems with repipe and revalve, 48 chilled water supply systems
Subcontractors: Metro Mechanical, Sturgeon Electric, Johnson Controls
Main Challenge: Budget and schedule
Solution: Quality subcontractors, careful phasing, prepurchase major equipment
ASU: Central Plant Upgrade
Role: Concrete Subcontractor
Project Components: New equipment pads in recently completed central plant
Contractors: Kinetics, APSES
Main Challenge: Dimensions and tolerances for high dollar equipment
Solution: Precision layout and coordination
Sky Harbor Compressed Natural Gas Station
Role: General Contractor
Project Components: Site Grading, concrete paving, fuel island, CNG compressor station, sight walls, fencing, lighting, control modules.
Contractors: PM plumbing, Swain Electric
Main Challenge: Integrating with work by other contractors
Solution: Cooperation and patience
Wells Fargo 23rd and 24th Floors
Role: Concrete Subcontractor
Project Components: Equipment and pump pads
Contractor: Centennial
Main Challenge: Producing enormous amounts of concrete at target floors with a manual mixer in phase
Solution: High strength dollies to transport dry mix, mobile concrete mixer, strong, skillful, determined Union Carpenters
County Hospital Central Plant: Cooling Tower Basin
 
Role: Concrete Subcontractor
Project Components: Complex Concrete Structure: Cooling Tower Base, Sumps, Pedestals
Contractor: University Mechanical
Main Challenge: Excavation and preparation in challenging soil conditions during rainy season
Solution: Tarps, frequent testing, patience, and coordination
Waste-Water Treatment Plant
Role: Concrete Subcontractor
Project Components: Complex concrete structure with stairs
Contractor: University Mechanical
Main Challenge: Phasing and coordination
Solution: Full cooperation and communication
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