Quality, Cost & Schedule Approach: to guide the project's development, providing reliable counsel in the design phase and necessary leadership during construction.
Master Program Schedule: Develop a schedule on an early-start basis including design, temporary relocations, procurement, construction, equipment installation, furnishings, and occupancy for the program. Identify critical and long lead activities and plan steps to coordinate them with appropriate team members.
Logisitics Planning: Mobilization Planning for entire project.
Program (scope) Refinement: Analyze prelimnary program, noting areas in need of more detailed definition to establish reliable budget estimates.
Budget Validation: Confirm program assumptions for the new facilities and equipment.
Schedule, Program (scope) and Budget are the three variables that define a project. We consider all three as a single unit. To be fully successful we need to understand the relationship of the three variables, and then plan a budget and schedule to achieve the desired balance.
Schedule Validation: Identify key activity sequences, available resources, and required occupancy dates.
Team Building / Management Procedures: Conduct an informal meeting for the owner, design consultants, and Bridgeport personnel to establish roles, lines of communication, and scope of authority. Integrate schedule, budget, and program parameters to establish team ownership of the program scope.
Consultation During Project Development: Schedule and attend regular meetings with the architect/engineers and other design sources during the development of conceptual and preliminary design. Assist in various evaluations, feasilbility studies, and labor, equipment and materials issues.
Value Engineering & Constructability Reviews: We strive for an integrated approach, using not only suggestions from our estimators, but also a separate team of certified value engineers. Our estimating is found on modeling, which predicts the important issues. Our document review and value engineering then anticipates design details. Bridgeport employs value engineers to provide specific services to our clients. Our reputation in pre-construction services, particularly estimating and value engineering, rests largely in the number and qualifications of our engineering/estimating staff.
The foundation of our reputation is our technical servies group, architects and engineers who are career specialists in architectural, civil and mechanical engineering.
Scheduling: Develop a project time schedule that coordinates and integrates all design efforts with procurement and construction schedules.
Project Construction Budget: Update the budget at the end of schematic design/general arrangement pahse, based on a quantity survey of drawings and specifications, including any fees and the owner's costs, if required. Update and refine this estimate for the owner's approval as the development of the drawings and specifications proceeds.
Coordination of Contract Documents: Review the drawings and specifications as they are being prepared, recommending alternative solutions whenever design details affect construction, installation feasibility or schedules. This will be done without assuming any of the design sources' responsibilities for design.
Long-lead Items: Recommend for purchase, and expedite the procurement of these items to ensure on-time delivery.