Jason records from a Marriott bathroom in Jacksonville, Florida (totally clothed, fully legit) and takes on the things that are always late in construction: exterior skin, elevators, switch gear, air handlers, and long lead items like Italian tile. He shares the story of Ryan Young pushing to start exterior and elevator coordination meetings during design development, walks through the detailed procurement sequence for unitized curtain wall, and explains the Outlook calendar trick for tracking critical points of release across the supply chain. He also responds to a listener moving from DC to Salt Lake City and recommends Wes Crawford's field engineering methods manual along with a lean reading list.
What you'll learn in this episode:
Why the same items (exterior, elevators, switch gear, air handlers) are always late on every project
How design assist letters of intent can get critical scopes going before contracts are in place
The full procurement sequence for unitized curtain wall: samples, dies, glass release, shop drawings, performance mockup, field measurements, install
The Field Verified mockup option as a fraction of the cost of building a full mockup on site
The Outlook calendar trick: schedule critical points of release as invites for the whole team
Wes Crawford's Construction Surveying and Layout as essential reading for any new builder
These items aren't late by accident. They're late because we don't start in design and we don't track the intermediate points of release. Fix both, and the supply chain stops being the schedule's bottleneck.
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