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For a century now, the HESS name has been synonymous with the highest-quality craftsmanship.
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Cannon Road Elementary School
Montgomery County Public Schools
Silver Spring, MD |
Harry J. Parrish Hall, Manassas Campus
Northern Virginia Community College
Manassas, VA |
Community Aquatic and Recreation Complex
Garrett College
McHenry, MD |
Last week in our Company Spotlight blog series, we featured a company-wide deployment with Consigli Construction Co., Inc. This week we’re spotlighting HESS Construction + Engineering Services, with offices in Richmond, VA and Gaithersburg, MD. HESS manages the planning, design, and construction of learning institutions. Included within HESS’ portfolio are colleges and universities, primary and secondary schools, training centers, fine arts spaces, athletic facilities and laboratories located throughout the Mid-Atlantic region. From the renovation of widely recognized landmarks, to award winning higher education buildings, the foundation of HESS’ work is their solid relationships with their clients who rely time and again on their experience, financial strength and expertise to make their vision a reality.
“Fred G. Hess and Sons, founded in 1914, established the family’s reputation for quality workmanship and customer service. For a century now, the HESS name has been synonymous with the highest-quality craftsmanship. Continuing these core values today, HESS is leveraging Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Virtual Design and Construction (VDC), coupled with field management practices that include iPads in the field and cloud computing, to manage, measure, and improve quality, safety, and commissioning across all projects, as a company best practice – enhancing the company’s reputation for quality workmanship and customer service, and sustaining a competitive advantage.”
—Andrew D. Hess, President & CEO, HESS
HESS adopted Vela Field Management (VFM) software across all projects to:
- Utilize Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Virtual Design and Construction (VDC), as part of a Field BIM program, throughout the building life-cycle including construction to handover to operations.
- Ensure the highest-quality craftsmanship with a detail orientation, through a company-wide field management program for quality, as part of the core values of HESS since its founding in 1914.
- Prevent injuries, incidents and accidents through sound, reasonable and proactive safety practices, with best-in-class construction practices and a culture of safety-consciousness at every level of the organization.
- Improve systems performance and building function by collaborating continuously with the Owner’s Project Team and the HESS commissioning agent, part of a field management program for commissioning.
- Drive customer service, client satisfaction, and client retention, to delivery work on time and within budget, and with quality in conformance to the contract requirements the first time, defect free and without rework.
Stay tuned for another Vela Company Spotlight…
See Field BIM-Interactive on the iPad and enter to win a FREE OtterBox case for the new iPad!
Going to BIMForum? Come visit us on April 25-26 at the Spring BIMForum at the Grand Hyatt San Antonio. The theme of this year’s event is Virtual Design & Construction (VDC) deliverables.
 The Spring BIMForum will focus on the ways that the VDC deliverables are used to solve specific problems i.e., how they saved a project time or money, enabled better decisions, enhanced quality, improved the project schedule, eliminated information drop-off between parties, enhanced communication or collaboration, or had other meaningful impact to the design, construction or operation of the building.
You'll see our Field BIM solutions firsthand, including how to leverage building information models on iPads in an easy-to-learn and easy-to-use approach, without having to be a BIM expert or a VDC engineer trained in sophisticated back-office BIM software. Learn how Field BIM is unlocking new value for leading contractors, owners, and other project stakeholders, by connecting BIM-based workflows with field management workflows, such as quality (QA/QC), safety, commissioning (Cx), and handover to the owner, operator, and facility manager. Field BIM is democratizing BIM, freeing it from the office and into the field where the work gets done and managed.
 iPads in construction are increasingly becoming the standard best practice in the field, outmoding paper and clipboard and tablet-based hardware. A semi-ruggedized or ruggedized field case is important on the construction site when managing field work, performing quality and safety inspections, commissioning systems and equipment, and documenting as-installed information. Enter to win a FREE OtterBox case for the new iPad or the iPad 2, great for use out in the field, on the jobsite, and at the point-of-construction with your iPad.
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Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Goddard Hall
Worcester, MA |
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Ambulatory Care Center
Worcester, MA |
Bigelow Labs
West Boothbay Harbor, ME |
This week, in our Company Spotlight blog series, we’re spotlighting Consigli Construction Co., Inc., a leading construction manager and general contractor headquartered in Milford, MA, with offices in Williamstown, MA, Portland, ME, and Hartford, CT. Basing its success largely on client satisfaction, Consigli has also won numerous industry, sustainability, and preservation awards.
With affiliate Kirchhoff-Consigli Construction Management in upstate New York, Consigli has the capacity to provide services to clients throughout the Northeast. Additionally, as evidenced by the United States Armed Forces Readiness Center in Ceiba, Puerto Rico project, Consigli also has the ability to manage select projects on a wider geographic scale, both nationally and internationally.
“With four generations of family history behind our name, we’re proud to think of ourselves as a local builder who has expanded our reach while keeping our roots. We thrive on uniquely challenging projects, developing creative approaches to earn rave reviews from clients across a wide range of market sectors. While Consigli is recognized for innovative services and advanced technology, we have remained true to our legacy as true builders. Vela Field Management across all of our projects drives our core mission to deliver innovative services with the highest quality where it matters most, in the field and on the jobsite where the work gets built.”
-- Anthony Consigli, President, Consigli Construction Co., Inc.
Why did Consigli Construction implement field management company-wide across all its projects?
- Use technology to build smarter -- more efficiently and more intelligently, by improving organizational performance in cost and time savings, by reducing jobsite risks, and by bolstering client satisfaction.
- Drive a corporate best practice in quality management across all projects to ensure conformance to contract documents and owner’s project requirements, by optimizing first work and by preventing rework.
- Leverage leading technologies, such as cloud computing, iPads, and BIM, supporting new and creative approaches to field management, while remaining true to Consigli’s legacy and heritage as builders.
- Deliver intelligent, accessible facilities management models to owners, operators, and facility managers, for ongoing operations and maintenance (O&M), re-commissioning, and re-use across the total life cycle.
- Provide innovative services with advanced technologies, to differentiate Consigli’s service offering, maintain a competitive advantage, ensure existing client satisfaction, and attract new, long-term clients.
Stay tuned for another Vela Company Spotlight…
We’re excited to be participating in the 20th Annual PACE Research Seminar next week at Penn State, Penn State Conference Center in State College, PA.
PACE is the the Partnership for Achieving Construction Excellence, “Integrating Teaching, Research, and Service to the Building Industry.” Based in the Dept. of Architectural Engineering at Penn State University, PACE is a collaborative organization of industry innovators, engineering students, and faculty who work together to achieve excellence in the construction industry. Created by Dr. Victor Sanvido in 1992, the PACE organization was formed first to facilitate interaction between partners, and second to provide a collaborative forum for addressing industry opportunities and challenges.
 The PACE Mission:
To establish a working partnership between the construction industry and Penn State to achieve excellence in construction through process innovation and the development of students into leaders that shape its future.
Each spring, the Annual PACE Research Seminar combines presentations of research results and timely industry speakers for a diverse audience of building industry professionals. Other seasonal events include the Summer Advisory Board Meeting, the Fall Roundtable, and the Summer DBIA/PACE Boot Camp. Current PACE projects include Virtual Design and Construction (VDC), which is of particular interest to Field BIM, Field BIM-Data and Field BIM-Interactive users, and Strawbale Construction Technology.
Supporting ongoing program areas of PACE, PACE Working Groups, comprised of volunteers from member companies, Penn State students and faculty, are helping to shape research goals and objectives in key areas of the building industry. Working groups facilitate ongoing interaction between the AEC industry and Penn State on focused topics, helping the implementation of research project results in PACE companies.
 Click to enlarge. Each group will be led by a Penn State faculty member. The three current PACE Working Groups address key opportunities and challenges faced by the AEC industry today and in the future:
- Lean and Green: High Performance Buildings
- Virtual Construction
- Leadership and the Development of the Workforce
PACE is complemented by S:PACE. S:PACE is the student arm of Penn State's Architectural Engineering (AE) program for PACE. The officers for S:PACE are from the undergraduate AE program and work to bring student enriching activities to the AE construction management program throughout the year.
PACE supports a broad spectrum of both undergraduate and graduate research, which actively generates new ideas and strategies for improving the AEC industry and continuously creates meaningful impact across public and private sectors, for contractors and for owners alike.
Read the Fall 2011 PACE Bulletin for More Information>
Register for the 2012 PACE Seminar >
Part 1 of a Technical Series on Field Management for Quality of Building Insulation
 Building insulation serves a wide range of purposes, sometimes with many purposes for each installation and other times with a single purpose, including thermal, acoustic, fire, and impact insulation. For example, thermal insulation also provides acoustic insulation, in many applications.
A broad spectrum of technical documentation exists on inspecting insulation, ensuring compliance, controlling quality, identifying defects, preventing non-conformances, improving installations, etc., including:
- Construction specifications
- Insulation grading criteria
- Manufacturer’s installation instructions
- Technical guides
- Other contract documents
As with any information on quality management, field inspection, and field observation, documentation on insulation inspection is authored by a wide range of design and construction industry stakeholders, including:
Checklists, including predefined checklist templates, serve as an excellent means for insulation inspection out in the field and at the point-of-construction, as part of a field management for quality program. Checklist templates may be defined as an organizational best practice, then copied across business units and across projects, and modified to meet unique project conditions, owner’s project requirements (OPR), contract documents, and other contracting requirements. Also, checklist templates help organizations to codify critical knowledge in a knowledge base (KB), and to pass that information on to other team members and to new field personnel, with lesser practical experience managing and administering work on the job site.
More to come next week…
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