The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center facilitated a $2 billion capital program with Broaddus & Associates serving as project manager on several of the program’s design and construction contracts. The University of Texas MD Anderson Basic Research and Education Building (which is now called the Michale E. Keeling Center for Comparative Medicine and Research) consists of 75,000 SF of basic research laboratories, education space, animal research laboratories, housing pathology support, and numerous site and infrastructure improvements. The building’s new diagnostic laboratory provides traditional services in the areas of hematology, coagulation, clinical chemistry, microbiology, serology, parasitology, and molecular diagnostics. Spire assisted the program manager, Broaddus, by providing cost analysis and cost estimating services across all disciplines for this $52 Million project.
Our Project Controls Expertise
Spire’s project controls experts bring a comprehensive suite of skills and extensive field experience to the job site. We help project teams and management determine how far a project has progressed at any given time regarding schedule, cost, productivity, and risk and compare against contractual expectations, scope, performance criteria, and milestones. Controls can be applied to all phases of a project, from preconstruction to closeout.
Here are just some of the services our construction project controls consultants can bring to your next project:
- Project Planning
- Schedule Development
- Schedule Oversight and Reporting
- Schedule Analysis
- Cost Estimating
- Cost Analysis
- Value Engineering
- Budget Management
Project controls are essential to keep complex construction projects on budget and on time. They help teams and stakeholders identify emerging risks early, before they become expensive, time-consuming problems. With advance warning, these issues can be mitigated or avoided altogether. Project controls also give leadership the data they need to set realistic expectations, manage subcontractors, and plan with confidence.
During the course of a project, program and project managers use controls to monitor time and cost expenditures and compare them to project lifecycle forecasts. They also rely on them to coordinate onsite execution with the milestones established during the design, procurement, entitlement, and pre-construction stages.