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Construction Support Services
The associates at Omnipro Services provide the most comprehensive construction support services in the industry. These support services are frequently utilized by our clients throughout the lifecycle of their projects including pre-construction, construction, and post-construction phases. Some examples of these services include:
Scheduling- A well maintained project schedule is important for the success of any construction project. While a baseline schedule submission is typically required prior to the commencement of any construction project, the true usefulness of this tool is realized throughout the life of the project. Delays, changes of condition, and weather are important driving factors that affect a project schedule. The schedule must be proactively maintained, incorporating such events, so the management team can effectively manage change and delver the project on time. Omnipro Services provides full range scheduling services that include baseline schedule creation, schedule updating, schedule monitoring, claims mitigation analysis, update analysis, and activity analysis. Whether you’re a contractor or an owner, Omnipro Services can meet your demanding schedule needs.
- Estimating
- Omnipro Services values the importance of completing a project on schedule and on budget. From the beginning of the design throughout the lifecycle of a project there are estimating needs that are required. This needs arise from changed conditions, extra work, material substitutions, and many other driving factors. Every change order requires some type of estimating. An accurate Engineers estimate is essential for project funding. All estimates should carefully take the time impact of the work into account as estimating and scheduling are heavily interrelated. Whatever the needs of your project dictate, Omnipro Services can meet your estimating needs.
- Construction Bid Package Preparation
- Contract preparation for bidding requires effective stakeholder communication so the intent of the plans can be efficiently conveyed to the contractor. This is especially important in building projects that require multiple prime contracts. The potential for missed scope between packages is a very serious problem. When combined with a constructability review, we can generate detailed and precise bidding documents for the ease of understanding of any contractor with minimal RFIs. Errors and omissions can be easily overlooked by a design team that has become accustom and immune to the items simply because of their everyday involvement. A separate construction management team can help find problems in the design stage because of their “fresh” look at the plan. We believe it is essential to develop precise scopes of work and produce well defined bid packages.
Constructability Reviews- Omnipro Services provides the most comprehensive constructability reviews in the industry today. For each project we create a specific team tailored to the project parameters by matching these parameters with the team members’ experience. Once we have identified the appropriate team, we typically hold a kickoff meeting with our client to understand aspects of the project that may not be apparent from the plans. After this meeting we begin to build the project in the virtual world, identifying construction issues that will arise during the course of actual construction. These issues would more than likely end up as claims during the actual construction provided no corrections are made to the current set of construction documents. Once we have identified all discoverable issues, we work with the designer to amend the construction documents to address the areas of deficiency.
- Bid Analysis
- Omnipro Services utilizes a detailed empirical procedure during the evaluation of construction bids to systematically determine the lowest bid (s). Additionally we examine the lowest calculated bid for responsiveness as well as the responsibility of bidder(s). We specifically check each low bid to ensure that it is not front loaded, unbalanced, unrealistic, and/or otherwise misrepresentative of the proposed work. Once we have determined that the calculated low bidder has met all criteria for award, we provide a recommendation to the owner indicating the contractor’s status.
- Contract Services
- Omnipro Services provides a comprehensive database for creating and/or tweaking your construction contract documents. We have experience developing specifications, special provisions, and as per plan items for a wide range of project types. We can aid you legal staff in generating specific general/special conditions as well as aid your engineering staff with unique technical specifications. A successful construction project begins with a solid set of contract documents.
- Value Engineering
- Omnipro Services provides analytical services for value engineering. We can participate in Value engineering sessions in the pre-design stage, accurately identifying the problem to be solve, brainstorming to develop potential solutions and narrowing the laundry list of solutions to a few practical potential conceptual plans. We also routinely provide services to review value engineering proposals submitted during the course of a construction project by the contractor. These construction era proposals are carefully analyzed considering such issues as post-construction issues and life cycle maintenance costs. While the contractor may be attempting to sell the upfront cost savings of the idea, the long terms costs of implementing the proposal may be greater than the initial design. It has been our experience that very few contractor submitted value engineering proposals actually are beneficial to the project when considering the global impacts of the proposed change.
- Comprehensive Site Planning
- Establishing the parameters of a project’s proposed site helps increase the efficientcy of proeject operations while providing a safer working environment. While any project can be built given unlimited resources, unmanaged constraints can create serious bottlenecks on your proejct. Careful planning must be incorporated into a project’s plans and specifications to allow for sufficient staging areas, equipment placement, deliveries, workers transportation, material handling, as well as relocation spaces. An important issue on renovation and repairs to existing facilities is maintaining ongoing operations. Omnipro Services has the expertise to provide planning, management and implementation for relocation services if required. This service will help to ensure that continuous operations are able to be maintained at the current facilities and provide a smooth transition from one location to another.