Masonry Magazine September 1970 Page. 24
In addition, the contractor-architect relationship has improved.
Partly this is due to the mutual understanding, which comes from teamwork, of each other's aims and problems. Partly it is due to a new-found realization that the contractor and architect can assist each other in their particular disciplines.
Our new Table of Organization (a) emphasizes relationships; (b) defines responsibility; (c) reflects an organized office practice; (d) recognizes that in a professional firm, businesslike administration is necessary, and (e) shows cross-training opportunities for promising young architects, since they can be put on a single project basis, into different performing slots. Individual creative efforts are stimulated while the highest standards of monitored supervision are maintained.
THE MANAGING
by DAVID W. PEARCE
Operations Director
THE REAL TEST of a new concept is whether or not if performs in actual practice. The organizational structure and Project Team procedures were implemented in our Lewis County Project.
Note on this page the task network (simplified for publication) we devised for our activity on a new 65,000 sq. ft. high school for 650 students of Lewis County C-1 School District, Monticello, Missouri. This systems approach identifies, at the beginning of the Architect's participation, every aspect of all tasks necessary to accomplish the job, including all physical, financial, timing and policy constraints.
Design work began on the school immediately following voter approval of a bond issue. Ground was broken May 10, 1969, and the $1.3 million project was completed on schedule, 14 months later.
Particularly noteworthy is the maintenance of a pre-determined schedule for programming, design and construction, the result of systematized procedures.
Specific elements in these procedures as they especially relate to contractors are:
(1) Organizing our drawings to do the major (basic) site work in advance of the release of bidding documents.
(2) Pre-bidding of structural steel and bar joists, mechanical units, etc., in order to get shop drawings and material delivered consistent with a reasonable general contractor's schedule. (The especially harsh winter of 1969-70 did not bother us a bit at Lewis County: we were closed in well ahead of the rain and snow.)
(3) Detailing of the reinforcing by the structural engineer prior to the award. (This is even worth an extra fee to the engineer.)
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MARCH APRIL
69
MAY
JUNE
69
69
69
ISSUE BIO
STRUCT
ST. & JOISTS
ISSUE
ROOF TOP
UNITS
REINFORCING
RECEIVE
RECEIVE
DOCUMENTS BIDS
AWARD
SHOP DR.
SHOP DR
APPROVAL
SHOP, DR.
PREP
RECEIVE AWARD SHOP DR.
BIOS
PREP
SHOP. DR.
FABRICATION
APPROVAL
FABRICATION
DETAILING & CHECKING
OF REINFORCING SHOP DR.
GENERAL WORK
HTG-VENT
ELEC
PLUMB.
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FABRICATION
DELIVERY
ISSUE
BID
JOB
SITE
BID
AWARD
PREPARATION
DOCUMENTS
CONTRACTS
BRICK
DELIVERY
OFFICIAL
& GL TILE
SELECTION
START
OF
PROJECT
SHOP DR
FABRICATE
SUBMITTAL
& APPROVAL
JULY
AUG.
SEPT.
ост.
69
69
69
COMPLETE
FONS
START
MASONRY
DELIVERY
DELIVER &
SET
ROOF TOP
UNITS
ROOF
DECK
CENTERING
ERECTION ST. & JOISTS
COMPLETE
MASONRY
HTG VENT
ROUGH-IN
POUR CONC
FLOORS
MECHA
DELIVER MATERIALS
EXTERIOR MASONRY
WALLS A. C. UNIT
UNDERGROUND
PLUMB & ELEC
CRITICAL PATH
SIMPLIFI
LE
masonry
September, 1970