Construction Services was established to assist the Project Team and implementation of a process that will provide quality control, cost control and consistency on each project. The process is focused on the execution of the installation and monitoring of project cost.

The goals of the group are:

• Improved quality control on the project through avoidance of mistakes and enhanced control of costs.
  
  
• Standardizing the installation methods/ use of best practices.
  
  
• Providing continuity between project supervision and project management.
  
  
• Providing additional design documents that will allow the project supervision, field management and installation team to spend more time concentrating on the installation.

Pre-Construction Services

• Assist the project design team in identifying the most cost effective means, methods and materials to meet the projects goals as well as insuring the constructability of the design.
  
  
• Provide budget input through the design process and overall up-dating of the budget as the design progresses.

Construction Services

• Evaluation of value engineering items that will benefit the Owner while not compromising the design or functionally of the building.
  
  
• Through review of construction document to insure coordination of disciplines and avoid mistakes and re-work in the field.
  
  
• A complete review of means and methods to be used on the project to insure a cost effective and schedule minded approach is implemented.
  
  
• Identify pre-fabrication opportunities for the project, this will not only reduce final installation cost but improved on schedule, reduce the peak of manpower on the site and reduce the amount of material stored and handled.
  
  
• Prepare detailed man-loaded CPM schedule for the project and up-date as needed.
  
  
• Provide detailed AutoCad layout drawings for coordination and final installation drawings for the field labor.

Project Impact

IU Research III

The extensive use of ERMCO's Construction Services Group helped keep this job on track.
This was accomplished by Kenny Edwards serving as both Director of Construction Services and Project Manager of the job. Construction Services has a pool of labor that is highly skilled in several support functions such as BIM, CAD, re-engineering, identification of pre-fab opportunities, coordination with other trades, scheduling, and claims preparation. The use of Construction Services also brings procedural consistency to each project.