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DPR Construction

A self-performing General Contractor focusd on highly complex and technical projects

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Stantec team of environmental specialists work with engineers, logistics specialists and planners to deliver integrated solutions that enable the delivery of complex design and construction projects on time and on budget.

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International professional services company in the design and consulting industry

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Introduction
Target Value Design (TVD), the process of designing towards a budget without sacrificing quality or extending schedules, is increasingly popular with owners. TVD works when everyone involved in a project is part of the process. It requires true collaboration, transparency, rapid estimating, and rapid decision-making.

Atrium Health, a non-profit health organization based in Charlotte, North Carolina, employed TVD to build a new rehabilitation hospital and acute care bed tower at the Atrium Carolinas Medical Center (CMC) campus. Atrium awarded the $650M project to DPR Rodgers (a joint venture between DPR Construction and Rodgers Builders), NBBJ, and WSP. To manage the projects, Stantec was selected to augment Atrium’s in-house staff.

Preconstruction planning for the two projects was handled separately. The team tackled the $100M rehab hospital first. From March to December 2020, approximately 30 people from multiple cluster groups collaborated towards the goal. They used their existing tools to track their project costs, budget, and timelines as they had done with other projects in the past.

“Tracking decisions for the rehabilitation hospital quickly became chaotic,” said Melanie Moreschi, Preconstruction Manager for DPR Rodgers. “Due to having so many users in the same tracking log, it was too easy for files to be overwritten, causing new items to be lost or even to have two copies of the same file running simultaneously. Furthermore, it was challenging to track items affecting multiple building systems such as structure, skin, mechanical and electrical into separate project clusters.”

DPR Rodgers had to ensure that the TVD process was smoother for the CMC bed tower project. They had to find an alternative — and fast.

How DPR Rodgers Successfully Navigated Target Value Design for Atrium Health

Join, the collaborative project delivery platform for the built environment, is software that facilitates decision-making for all stakeholders on a construction project. With real-time insight into cost data and a visual interface, Join empowers contractors, owners, and design teams to collaborate on decisions throughout the project lifecycle. Industry leaders such as Clark Construction, DPR Construction, and McCarthy trust Join to make timely and smart decisions that drive projects forward.

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To increase project success, DPR embraces construction innovations that come from outside the organization. A recent example of this is known as Canvas.

Canvas is a worker-controlled robotic machine that helps increase safety, save time, decrease costs and increase overall quality. Canvas automates the mudding and sanding portions of the drywall finishing process, which, according to Canvas, captures 99.9% of the dust produced by sanding, improving air quality—and reducing worker exposure to silica—and minimizing cleanup. It also helps make the work safer by both cutting out the heavy lifting of machine sanding, stress injuries from repetitive motion and by reducing the chance of falls by allowing workers to take on elevated work from ground level.

“DPR has been working with us for several years to refine our drywall finishing machine and make it more useful for self-perform drywall crews. As an early adopter, DPR has embraced the technology for its ability to improve safety and quality metrics, with an eye toward increased productivity,” said Canvas’ Jill Lonergan.

“We invest heavily in our thousands of craft workers. We’re excited to partner with Canvas to create a safer work environment for our tradespeople while providing them with a valuable new technology skill,” said DPR’s Jack Poindexter.

A team of DPR craft team members recently completed training and certification on the Canvas system, which they are set to deploy on an upcoming project. One of these craftsmen, Cande Talavera, shared his experience with the process: “I was excited to try the Canvas machine and put my hands on it. It was easy to learn and will limit the hard work tapers have to do.”

Source: https://www.dpr.com/media/blog/working-smarter-innovations-from-the-field

Canvas is a worker-controlled robotic machine that helps increase safety, save time, decrease costs and increase overall quality

Cleaning up the drywall finishing process

Canvas automates the mudding and sanding portions of the drywall finishing process

CANVAS IS A CONSTRUCTION ROBOTICS COMPANY. We deliver unrivaled quality, speed, and predictability by putting robots in the hands of skilled workers. Through our novel approach, we have reinvented drywall finishing to give your projects better outcomes. CONSTRUCTION WORKERS DESERVE BETTER EQUIPMENT We’ve seen firsthand the unparalleled skill and expertise that a union drywall finisher leverages to make gorgeous interiors. We believe in creating tools that amplify those skills, and we exist to make them more successful.

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How DPR Rodgers Successfully Navigated Target Value Design for Atrium Health

Cleaning up the drywall finishing process

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