Specifications include, but are not limited to: 1. General goals - Serve as a partner to the design team and provide preconstruction guidance - Develop and update schedules, estimates, and action-plans at scheduled milestones - Guide decisions regarding phasing/sequencing of the project to optimize quality, schedule, and budget - Strategically approach the subcontractor market with a focus on providing quality, schedule, and budget value to the owner - Provide timely information, estimates, and schemes to inform project decisions, and participate in decisions regarding construction materials, methods, systems, phasing, sustainability, etc. to assist in determinations which are aimed at providing the highest quality building, within the budget, schedule, and other constraints. 2. Quality assurance - Partner with design team to improve design through constructability reviews - Provide design team with collaborative input on design decisions that impact construction quality - Complete thorough visual and invasive investigations of existing conditions and strategically plan for challenges - Complete reviews of adjacent site use and strategically plan for impacts - Actively participate throughout the design process to ensure establishing EWAs and the GMP are acceptable and within budget. Postponing design analysis until the moment of establishing EWAs or the GMP is not acceptable and not in keeping with the intent of this process. 3. Scheduling and coordination - Provide design team with collaborative input on design decisions that impact construction schedule - Develop clear construction staging and impact maps, diagrams, schedules, and plans accounting for site challenges - Develop clear communication of impacts and schedules to stakeholders and site users - Guide design team to make changes beneficial to smooth on-boarding of subcontractors - Work with the Owner and design team on phasing, scheduling, and other strategies to complete construction of this scale of project on or before the agreed upon date. Advance bid packages and early work amendments prior to establishing a GMP are an acceptable strategy. - Provide input to the Owner and the design team regarding long lead time materials and equipment, impact on the construction schedule, and strategies for mitigating the impact - Develop preliminary construction schedule(s)
