PMI News:
PMI Leads Quality Control Review for Allure Waikiki
PMI was recently retained by our Chicago based client, Fifield Companies, to facilitate a complete quality control review of the design and construction documents for their new 292 unit Allure Condominium, to be built in the Waikiki area of Honolulu, Hawaii. This Q/C review was conducted with the entire OAC team over two days of intense study of the construction documents, prior to final completion and issuance of C/D's to the General Contractor for construction and guaranteed maximum price (GMP) contract negotiations.
The review process is structured through the use of detailed checklists, large scale drawing overlays and composits of the site plan and all levels and areas of the building to determine interdisciplinary conflicts between systems, missing or erroneous items, design oversights, spatial interferences and other conflicts, that might otherwise give rise to requests for information (RFI's), change orders (CO's) and headaches during construction that might add potential risk for the developer.
Once identified, each item is circled in the drawings, numbered and then logged with the responsible party(s) included for follow-up and resolution. The team also identifed a few informal value engineering items to be considered which resulted in added savings to the client. Another added side-effect of this focussed effort and partnering of the entire OAC team in this process was the increased commitment to quality, enhanced communication and mutual problem solving environment, that will extend into the construction of this luxury project. This will ultimately anure to the benefit of all involved, helping to produce a better quality project, control the budget, and leave fewer items to be resolved and therefore less time and money spent by the entire team during construction.
PMI has previously worked with Fifield Company on their Ocean Marine Yacht Club Condominium, located in Hallandale Beach, Florida and appreciates their continued confidence in our ability to assist them in the development and construction of their projects, wherever they may be. |
