MATT Construction project manager Sam Ragsdale snapped this iPhone photograph of crews installing the exterior skin at the Petersen Automotive Museum renovation in Los Angeles.
For the first time in nine years, a commercial construction project tops ENR California's annual ranking of the largest construction starts in the state last year.
Dissatisfied with traditional project delivery, Sutter Health began experimenting with lean practices and integrated project delivery nearly a decade ago.
Photo Courtesy of John Russo/ARC A worker scans back-of-house utilities at an airport terminal in Los Angeles. Image Courtesy of John Russo/ARC Captured data creates a point cloud model. Related Links: Industry Tech Advocates Make the Case for Hastened Adoption High Performance Teams Needed to Meet Construction Challenges As the construction industry expands the adoption of reality capture, more contractors are using the technology to assess accurately existing conditions, verify work during construction and provide an as-built model of finished work to building owners.Because developers and manufacturers continue to improve scanning hardware and software, contractors "are able to find a
Related Links: Best of the Best 2014 Turnkey Procurement a Key to Success on Navy Hospital Job Representing a model for future military hospital development, the Clark/McCarthy-led design-build team planned, procured and installed all of the Naval Hospital at Camp Pendleton's medical equipment and furniture, in addition to training hospital staff on how to use the medical devices. This was the first time the Navy had relied on the contracting strategy, which helped the team deliver the $455-million facility $100 million under budget and six months ahead of schedule.Best Projects judges appreciated the integrated project delivery-type strategy, which they said
Photo Courtesy CURT Analyst Edward Merrow says around 30% of megaprojects fail due to flaws or holes in developing basic project data. Related Links: Infrastructure Megaprojects: Looking For Legacies Big Africa Projects Face Legal Battles, Community Protests Engineering errors and other causes lead to an alarming number of failed industrial megaprojects, but the finger should be pointed at the project owner, not the EPC contractor. That's the conclusion of an ongoing, multiyear study conducted by Independent Project Analysis Inc., with the participation of nearly 100 of the largest owners of global industrial projects."Of all the things we need to do,
