Markets
Facilities that cannot stop running.
Most of our work happens in occupied, operating buildings. We plan around production schedules, clean areas and shutdown windows instead of asking the facility to plan around us.
What these facilities have in common
A data center, a pharmaceutical plant and a wastewater treatment works have almost nothing in common technically. Operationally they are the same problem.
All three run continuously, all three have something happening on the other side of our barrier that cannot be interrupted, and in all three the cost of overrunning a window is far larger than the value of the work inside it. That is the constraint we design around, and it shapes how we sequence, how we price and what we ask for before we quote.
What follows is where we work and what the mechanical scope usually looks like in each.
Where we work
Six facility types.
The scope we bring to all of them
Four classifications on one California license: general building, mechanical insulation, millwork and casework, and plumbing and process piping. In practice that means on most facility work we can carry the mechanical scope and the building scope together, and the trades that usually have to be coordinated between companies are coordinated inside one.
Where a scope falls outside those four, we subcontract it and we say so. We would rather tell you what we do not do than discover it together halfway through a shutdown.
What we ask for before pricing
Three things, in this order of importance, and they are the same whichever market you are in.
When the facility can afford to be disturbed. The window shapes the price more than the quantity does.
What is actually there now. Drawings describe the building as designed. A walk tells us about the building as it is, and on anything older than a few years those are different buildings.
What documentation the work has to generate. If your quality system, your insurer or your regulator needs records, building the submittal path into the schedule from the start costs very little. Reconstructing it afterwards is expensive and sometimes impossible.
Related
Other scopes we self-perform.
Next step
Our work happens around your operation.
Tell us what the facility does and when it can afford to be disturbed. That shapes the scope more than the drawings do.