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Clinical Research Building RFP
8. Q & A
The proposer should include responses to the questions below in this
section whether or not they have been addressed elsewhere in their
RFP response. Please note your responses directly under each
question.
Q. Do you anticipate self-performing any work? If yes, please describe which
areas.
A. No, we do not anticipate self-performing any work. We feel the inherent
distractions associated with monitoring resources, materials and
logistics related to self-performing work would take us off our
purpose path of the overall project management and safe guarding the
owner’s interests.
Q. What Lean Construction Strategies would you incorporate on this
project?
A. We have adopted various Lean Strategies into our standard project
systems. We would plan to utilize the following systems and strategies
on this project:
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Virtual Design & Construction: Collaboration between
Designers, Subcontractors and other stake holders to
develop building information modeling can allow for early
clash detection between different building components to
help avoid project delays and cost impacts. J. Raymond
has provided in house BIM services for several years and
will utilize these services to ensure a thorough and smooth
preconstruction process, transition to construction and
project closeout.
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Owner / Architect / Contractor (OAC) Action Item Tracking
(SmartSheet): This tool not only clearly captures the open
issues and next project “to-Do’s” but also assigns Team
Member responsibility and accountability (akin to Last
Planner type approach)
•
Preinstallation Meetings: Represents early partnering
sessions with Subcontractors in advance of their scope of
work commencing on the project. The goal is to resolve any
specific project issues in advance of their commencement of
activities to avoid time loss and inefficiencies.