No Room to Spare

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How prefabricated building systems tackle tight jobsites By: Bill Forest Ask any superintendent working a tight urban site what keeps them up at night, and space is usually near the top of the list. No laydown area. No room for extra crews. No margin for error. When a project team works together from the beginning with diverse expertise integrated early in the planning process, they can solve many of those problems before they start. Prefabricated building systems offer project stakeholders many advantages, including benefits when battling the challenges of working a small site. Take out the heavy lifting One major […]

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Tight Sites + Fast Schedules

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The art of coordination keeps projects moving forward By Drew Cook It seems like every project comes with the same expectation: get it done faster and do it with less room to work. Whether it’s an occupied office building, a renovation in an active facility or a project squeezed into a dense urban environment, constraints have become part of everyday construction. The challenge, however, isn’t always the lack of space. In my experience, most tight-site challenges aren’t space problems at all. I’ve worked on projects with limited access, shared elevators, occupied spaces, active pedestrian traffic and aggressive schedules. What I’ve […]

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Technology, Innovative Strategies Key in Renovating Historic Sports Arena on Busy College Campus

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By Jim Yechout Accommodating constraints on a jobsite is nothing new for superintendents. But the $110-million, 18-month renovation of Northwestern University’s Welsh-Ryan Arena, located in Evanston, Illinois, posed a few more challenges in one project than usual. Compact jobsite, surrounded by other highly active buildings, walkways and sports fields College activities, students, coaches and others that required access to all sides of the jobsite Close proximity to a residential neighborhood Fast-track construction timetable aimed at being fully operational for the 2018 basketball season Historic renovation with intricate and complex selective demolition Although building a new facility could potentially have been […]

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