Design/Build: Facilities on the Fast Track
In the mission-critical world, begin quick to market can mean the difference between success and failure. This need is driven by constantly chaning business goals and evolving technologies. In today's market, new equipment, uptime requirements and changing safety and security regulations are the forces that drive the ever-changing world of the mission critical facility.
Therefore, for mission-critical facilities such as data centers, fast-track design/build is rapidly becoming the preferred model. The pay-off of compressing the traditional design-bid-build sequence can be huge; getting it done right is essential. Experience and resources are crucial to the success of any project. With nearly 30 years of experience in data center development, Total Site Solutions knows what needs to be done, what needs to happen now and what can wait. This knowledge and experience ensures that key milestones are achieved, budgets are met and schedules are kept.
The essence of a “Fast Track Project” is working concurrently, instead of sequentially; having the construction team work together with the engineering team. This teaming allows for pre-purchase, multi-bid packages that are prepared early in the design process, greatly accelerating the overall project implementation process. With Fast Track, organizations are able to deploy technology faster, gain a competitive advantage and reap ROI sooner.
A successful fast-track project requires strong, constant leadership and teamwork. Since mistakes can be costly, experience and resources are essential. As the project evolves, change is inevitable. Knowing and anticipating what and where changes most often occur, as well as what aspects are absolute, will minimize expensive delays and even more costly changes “on the ground.”
That's why companies with mission- and time critical facilities rely on Total Site Solutions. Our Fast Track process allows for concurrent design/build solutions, thereby compressing the restrictive design-bid-build process without sacrificing cost, quality and control.
Fast and Flexible
Since the construction team is involved early and throughout the project design process, value engineering is there at every step, from the initial design process to actual construction. Early and continuous involvement by all team members saves time and lowers overall cost. Perhaps most importantly, owner-initiated changes are more easily accommodated because the designer is part of the build process. Owner-requested changes can be handled well into the schedule with much less impact when compared to the traditional design-bid-build approach.
Fast Track can actually reduce costs
while providing for an expedited return
on investment.
Focused Responsibility for Fast Results
With Total Site Solutions, fast-tracking a project provides for a single point of responsibility. Items such as design, scheduling, budgeting, construction, commissioning and quality control are the responsibility of one entity. This ensures that the highest levels of integrity and integration are maintained between the design/build team, the client and the myriad of vendors and subcontractors involved in making the project a success.
All documentation and communication is channeled through a single source dedicated exclusively to the project. Constant communication reduces potential problem areas from expanding, and the continuity of such relationships is integral to the success of a design/build project.
Quick and Cost-Effective
Another powerful benefit of Total Site Solutions' fast-track method is the early specification, and advanced purchasing, of long lead equipmen t. Experience and purchasing power enable us to ensure that equipment and systems are onsite as scheduled. We purchase tens of millions of dollars worth of equipment every year, resulting in buying power and expedited response time from manufacturers.
Fast Track can actually reduce costs while providing for an expedited return on investment. The Total Site team integrates competitive biding into the fast-track design/build process, obtaining preliminary pricing at 65% drawings, contractor bids at 95% and fine-tuning cost estimates with 100% drawings.
Multiple Disciplines. One Solution.
Total Site Solutions has an in-house team of design/build professionals specializing in fast-track projects. This includes registered design professionals in all disciplines, including architects, engineers and construction management personnel, all of whom have worked on design/build projects. Total Site Solutions provides a professional level of project management services, including installation management, equipment procurement, commissioning, training and project close-out.
Total Site Solutions ' state-of-the-art expertise in IT and facilities ensures that the needs of both are me t. In fact, we've been doing so for nearly 30 years. The Total Site Solutions team pioneered high-availability infrastructure systems for specialized facilities. We were among the first to build reliable, available, maintainable, predictable and scalable infrastructure into the mission-critical facility. Our clients include some of the world's most demanding mission critical organizations, including Fortune 500 firms and US government agencies.
Complete Facility Integration
Total Site Solutions provides a single source that seamlessly integrates the facility's electrical, mechanical, security, building envelope and environmental resources with the most advanced IT systems available. And Total Site Solutions is vendor-neutral, ensuring the best value solution, regardless of manufacturer.
Find out how Total Site Solutions can help you put unprecedented levels of uptime and cost-effective operations on the fast track.
Fast Track's concurrent design/build solutions compress the restrictive design/bid/build process, without sacrificing cost, quality and control.
Fast Track can actually reduce costs while providing for an expedited return on investment.
