Consigli Expands Prefabrication Capabilities with Addition of Bill Seery

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Consigli Construction Co., Inc. has added Bill Seery as director of prefabrication to expand the company’s existing capabilities in modular construction and prefabrication. Seery was a co-founder of the first U.S. company to integrate construction and manufacturing processes to produce custom, prefabricated bathroom units for commercial instruction. With more than 17 years of leadership experience, he will bolster efforts to improve scheduling, cost certainty and safety for projects in healthcare, life science, hospitality, higher education and multi-unit residential buildings using prefabrication. “Bill’s enthusiasm for prefabrication and his nearly two decades of proven leadership will help us implement innovative techniques for … Read more

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Means & Methods: Prebuilding for Precision

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3 advantages of leveraging prebuild facilities By Nick Effenheim With the increased demand for speed, safety and precision on construction sites, many in the industry are looking offsite to tackle these challenges head on and ensure the certainty of results our clients have come to expect. One way JE Dunn teams are doing this is through our prebuild facilities, where we can incorporate value-added steps into components that get sent to construction sites for installation. While this is very similar to prefabrication, the distinction is in the scope of components prebuild facilities offer. When people hear prefab, they think of … Read more

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Collaboration, Prefabrication Keep Research and Academic Building Project on Track

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The future of medical research and scientific study on the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center Campus, located in California, now resides in a new academic building. The UCSF Research and Academic Building consists of a 175,000-square-foot research and academic building, as well as a roadway project that is now part of the ZSFG campus. The new building consolidates some of the university’s research and teaching activity at ZSFG and contains a mix of state-of-the-art research and academic teaching spaces that will support the UCSF research and administrative space in the five-story structure. For Boldt project managers, collaboration … Read more

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Net-Zero Energy Targeted for Physical Sciences and Engineering Building at Yale University

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The preconstruction contract for Yale University’s $365-million Physical Sciences and Engineering Building project was awarded to Turner Construction Company. This project will feature forward-thinking sustainability efforts, including carbon reduction to lower energy and carbon impact during the construction process. The building will also target net-zero performance and rely on a concerted prefabrication and Lean strategy. The physics and engineering research complex will include a 253,000-square-foot research laboratory building, a 48,000-square-foot addition to Wright Laboratory and a 220-space parking garage. The facility will include an advanced instrumentation development center, research labs, offices, seminar rooms, social spaces, chemical safety facility and delivery … Read more

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5 Ways 2020 Changed the Way We Build

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By Rachael Farr At the onset of 2020, construction firms felt optimistic for the year ahead. Demand for construction was high, and industry challenges seemed predictable. Construction leaders were confident, until COVID-19 spread across the nation. While “pandemic” may have been Miriam-Webster’s 2020 Word of the Year, it was “flexibility” for construction teams. In many ways, the pandemic changed building by accelerating innovation, requiring a greater reliance on technology and adding a new dimension to workplace safety. General contracting and construction management firm Robins & Morton was among the many companies that had to quickly develop procedures and protocols in … Read more

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