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Modeling the Muny

Posted on May 08, 2019 in: Constructability, Electrical Construction, Engineering / Pre-Con

Architect’s rendering (courtesy H3 Architects) detailing the many Muny Opera stage renovations (our thanks to the St. Louis Post Dispatch). Among the services offered by Guarantee Electrical Company (Guarantee) is preconstruction modeling deploying Building Information Modeling (BIM) and us...

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Modeling and Fabricating the New SSM Health St. Louis University Hospital

Posted on February 13, 2019 in: Constructability, Electrical Construction, Engineering / Pre-Con

Sometimes it just pays to be have a skillful team applying their resources to a mission they’ve accomplished dozens of times and that they utterly embrace. Customers in turn realize the benefit of developments in what has been for years the fast moving practice of intelligent design.&nbs...

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Taking Project Management Accounting to the Cloud; Deploying Viewpoint with Keystyle

Posted on November 20, 2018 in: Electrical Construction, Engineering / Pre-Con

Few things are less sexy than accounting in the scheme of things. And yet, as we’re building it in the construction industry, accounting keeps demanding greater precision and speed applied to construction management. Hence, the adoption of varieties of automation in accounting software that has moved the industry well beyond traditional office environment, as increasingly robust ...

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The Strength of Trust

Posted on May 08, 2018 in: Constructability, Electrical Construction, Energy Solutions, Engineering / Pre-Con, Intelligent Buildings, Quick Response

The strength of trust is earned through promises made and kept—meaningful promises in which the keeping delivers fair value to everyone concerned. But...the thing about trust is that the need for earning is never finished. Customers and competition dictate that trust follows from p...

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The Strength of Efficiency

Posted on April 01, 2018 in: Constructability, Electrical Construction, Energy Solutions, Engineering / Pre-Con, Intelligent Buildings, Quick Response

In business and in life generally, efficiency is defined as achieving objectives with a minimum of wasted effort. However, great outcomes don’t happen in a vacuum. An innovative company stays in touch with its employees and its customers, communicating its objectives clearly with the int...

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The Strength of Safety

Posted on March 06, 2018 in: Constructability, Electrical Construction, Energy Solutions, Engineering / Pre-Con, Intelligent Buildings, Quick Response

Among the indicators of quality in the construction industry and among its leading best practices is the presence of and consistent adherence to a strong safety program. Understanding that hazards exist everywhere, on and off the job, it is a responsibility of everyone in the organization to sustain...

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Central Utility Plants and the Art of Managing Growth

Posted on March 07, 2017 in: Constructability, Electrical Construction, Engineering / Pre-Con

Modernizing facilities and managing campus growth for large hospitals and networks is almost never a simple matter of expanding a “footprint” to accommodate a growing (and changing) array of services to the community. For one thing, there are more and different technologies emergin...

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Central Utility Plants

Embracing the Future as Database Intelligence Comes to MEP Modeling Technology

Posted on February 07, 2017 in: Constructability, Engineering / Pre-Con, Intelligent Buildings

For decades, building designers, engineers and leading MEP contractors have been engaged in embracing progressive technology adoption, especially as three dimensional modeling became a standard tool for assuring the highest possible accuracy and constructability in design and construction. Lat...

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Community Outreach: Using “Show and Tell” to Further Construction Education

Posted on October 11, 2016 in: Electrical Construction, Engineering / Pre-Con

When you’re an MEP contractor and a superb team-player, expert in constructability and being really effective at delivering complex infrastructure while keeping it out of sight, under floors, behind walls or in the ceiling—how do you then turn around and do self-promotions that matter an...

Integrated Project Delivery

Posted on April 14, 2015 in: Engineering / Pre-Con

Integrated Project Delivery And the Role of the Specialty Subcontractor As a concept of progressive, collaborative means and methods” in today’s construction industry, Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) has, along with “Lean Construction Principles,” acquired increasing relevance to virtually every significant “player” involved with large construction proje...

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