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WHAT MAKES US DIFFERENT?

Whatever the mode selected to carry out your project, our company can guarantee the following:

• Constructive Quality.
• Personnel Management.
• Excellent relations with the other project components.
• Professional use of works programming techniques.
• Control of the works through tested procedures.
• Accurate Estimates.
• Customized Service
• Occupational and Environmental Safety
• Professional Ethics

 

Quality, Personnel Management and the Different Project Components

Our clients and projects are the best guarantee we can provide to assure you that you will receive an excellent quality construction. Below you will find a description of some of our most important projects.

We also provide references regarding the development of our projects in personnel management and our relations with the other project components.

 

Accurate Estimates and Good Programming Techniques

All the estimates carried out in our office are done in the same way, the list of quantities is calculated based on the complete constructive plans and these are organized in independent accounts, using the master format designated by the American Construction Institute. This facilitates the comparison of the account of one project with that in another similar project.

The cost and productivity of the direct labor for the works is the amount that implies the greatest risk in a construction project, thus, we quantify the accumulated amount of hours worked for each activity carried out per worker. This enables us to have certainty of our personnel performance at the works. For several years now we have been quantifying our labor performance in the various activities that form part of the constructive process, and this is how we provide feedback to our budgeting department.

The elaboration of an accurate budget benefits our clients directly. By comparing the yield obtained from our former works we can be sure that the estimate for your project is realistic and reliable.

The project productivity database enables us to prepare the timetables for the works and the planning necessary for the constructive process. For this purpose we use bar diagrams, Gantt diagrams and critical route method.

 

Control of the Works

We use the software program “PROLOG MANAGER” for the execution of the project control. Therefore we have to carry out each control with the same procedures and in the same way. The activities to be controlled are divided in three sections:

1. Costs Control
• Budget Code: Original Estimate of the works divided into the different accounts, to be compared with the real expenses, labor, materials and subcontracts. This enables us to know at all times how the project is going compared to our original estimate.
• Contracts: Allow us to manage the information regarding each one the contracts undertaken for the execution of the project: amount, delivery Deadline, specifications, etc.
• Contract Invoices: Allow the filing of each one of the invoices to be processed for each one of the different subcontractors as partial payment of their contract.
• General Invoices: Allow filing of each one of the invoices for expenses incurred in the project.
• Potential Change Orders: Enable a control of project changes from the moment they arise.
• Change Orders of the Main Contract: Allows a control of how a change in the project affects the main contract (Contract with the Owner).
• Change Orders of the Subcontractors: Enables us to control how a change in the project affects a certain contract with a subcontractor for the works.
• Purchase Orders: Allow us to have control of purchases for the project.

2. Engineering
• Lists of activities to be carried out: Enable us to assign responsibilities, date and control the most important activities to be carried out in a specific moment in the project.
• Meeting Minutes: We file the information generated at the meetings with the owner or the inspection team.
• Information requests to consultants: We file the information requested by the consultants.
• Decision Groups: We file decisions about samples or materials that must be made throughout the development of the project.

3. Field
• Daily Work: We describe the daily work environment, temperature, rain, etc. in order to relate it with the labor performance.
• Labor/Equipment/Daily work: Under this section we control the hours worked in each activity of the process. The program enables us to associate these hours with the original budget.
• Events: We file the detail of specific events that take place during the constructive process.
• Field Guidelines: Allow us to provide follow-up to orders generated in the field for the specific execution of any activity.
• Complaints: We provide follow-up to the irregularities in the subcontracts through this section.
• Final lists: Once the works have been delivered, we carry out a detailed visit with the Owner in order for him to indicate us all the aspects in the project that should be improved. This list allows us to determine the construction area where this detail is generated, the person responsible for its execution and determine the date in which the detail must be rectified. • Safety: Allows us the documentation of mistakes in our works safety program and what was the reason for that fault.

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