Pre-Construction
The Pre-Construction Phase is the time period necessary to establish the direction of the project. It is the first activity White becomes involved in, usually with our senior management personnel.
Project Team – Participants involved in the obligations and responsibilities of the project. This evaluation is required to determine the specific duties of individuals.
Procedures – What are the lines of communications and what level of reporting is necessary for the project. We suggest meeting bi-weekly or once a month, with minutes prepared by White Construction. We will designate a Project Manager with overall day-to-day responsibility and we want to develop the ground rules from which our TEAM will work.
Scheduling Parameters – We will develop both a Pre-Construction Schedule and a very detailed overall Project Schedule. This will include all Pre-Construction as well as Construction activities, with the major emphasis being on the development of outside activities and constraints that may affect this project. This will have a CPM format, which we will use to allow for easy updating. This scheduling process will be further defined during the scheduling phase of the Pre-construction portion of the project.
Budgetary Parameters – Budgetary Parameters will be developed in an overview. As with the Schedule, more definite details – based on the Construction Documents for the project, budgetary constraints, and agency limitations – will be developed during the Pre-construction Phase.
Existing Facilities – We will perform an analysis of any existing facilities. The evaluation will be an operational analysis to determine how the construction process will affect the existing facility. This evaluation is essential to the construction sequencing.
Project Budget – We will establish an overall project budget. We will then take this overall budget through the entire Pre-construction and Construction Phase.
Value Analysis – While we are in the process of quantifying the designs to arrive at our estimates, we are also studying and considering alternative systems and solutions to potential problems. Value Analysis is a system to look at an individual engineering aspect of the project from its very basic components, to determine the feasibility and necessity of that system in an effort to maximize value while minimizing cost.
The Initiation Phase – The time in which we take the project public in the sense of approvals and any reviews that are necessary for the project.
Conceptual Estimate – Using our databank of past projects, an initial estimate will be assembled. This estimate is in a general form with quantities and cost associated with sub or trade items. Permanent, in-house White Construction staff performs estimating. All records and information that we use are then evaluated and put into a standard estimating format. Our estimators have an ability to foresee and quantify systems and materials that make up the project at the very conception of the design process.
Construction Feasibility – Along with determining the impact that the cost of a system has on a project, we are also at this time determining the impact that system would have on the timing and scheduling of a project. The feasibility from a construction standpoint becomes a prime consideration at this time, and the use of an alternative system may improve or change the timing associated with the project.
Material Availability – The availability of particular materials or items can also have significant bearing on the timing of a project. Our association and impact across the country enables us to properly judge and measure the impact of the availability of an item onto the project.
