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Protect Against Permitting Delays With an off-site modular approach, meaningful construction can begin independent of permitting. Should contaminated soil or other unforeseen permitting difficulties occur on your project, the impact from permitting delays can be significantly reduced. Eliminate Weather Impacts Rainy weather, snow, or ice has no impact on our productivity—we construct in a controlled, indoor environment. On a recent project for Georgia-Pacific, scheduled during a Maine winter, we enabled them to start production of their plant on time by saving 7 months out of their typical 18-month schedule. Minimize Your Risk From Craft Labor Shortages Because of the long-term decline in the availability of skilled craft and the continuing high level of construction activity, qualified labor is difficult to hire and retain in many areas. A tight labor market exposes your project to higher costs and schedule slippage from higher wages, per diems, and low productivity. Moving work from your site into our shop takes advantage of our available labor pool. Our craft labor performs with predictable productivity and quality, with wages comparable to the lowest cost regions of the United States and Europe. Ensure Predictable Schedule Performance A modular approach increases the number of simultaneous construction activities. Steel, pipe, and equipment installation occurs concurrently in our shop with site civil and foundation work. We construct all areas of a plant simultaneously on the shop floor. The increase in parallel activities gives you predictable schedule performance, and an enhanced ability to respond to schedule challenges. Our crews work productive overtime and multiple shifts in our weather-protected environment, giving you a cost effective means of adjusting from schedule delays from such items as late equipment delivery or front-end schedule slip. |
 Chevron Chemical’s risk from limited craft labor availability was reduced on this project by moving work to our South Carolina shop. The modular approach also helped mitigate a 4-month schedule slip from technology transfer delays.  Georgia-Pacific started production of this Chlorine Dioxide plant on time, despite site construction during a harsh Maine winter. Because of higher productivity and wage differentials, the cost of the project was reduced by 10 percent. |
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