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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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St. Louis Electrical Company

Testing the Power of Preconstruction Coordination Modeling

Posted on April 30, 2019 in: Constructability, Electrical Construction

Handsome as they sometimes are, the colorful 3-dimensional models created for Virtual Design and Construction (VDC) support coordination of construction processes between disciplines, especially in facilities that are dense with technology applied to complex production process, like industrial manuf...

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Electrical Preconstruction St. Louis

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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Electrical Contractor St. Louis

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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A Revolution in Construction Collaboration: Building the New World of Assisted Living

Posted on June 20, 2017 in: Constructability, Electrical Construction, Intelligent Buildings

The demographics of America’s aging population are inescapable. The number of increasingly frail older people (older than age 65 with any disability) is projected to increase from 11 million in 2010 to 18 million in 2030*, due to the fact that 10,000 Americans are turning age 65 every da...

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Assisted Living Construction

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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When We Make It Constructible, We Build It Better

Posted on May 05, 2015 in: Constructability

It might sound like a redundancy stating the obvious, but constructability has become a core value in today’s construction industry. But what does this really mean? As a project management approach, constructability brings the processes of building a structure fully into the building’s design. What it involves is to create a complete map of the construction process...

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