There’s a new logo sign on the desk wall of Wohlsen’s vice president of innovation, Ed McCauley: “The Ultimate Building Experience: Let Our People Prove It. “
What is the meaning of this statement?
The current construction environment is challenging, Ed says. “With low margins and increasing economic headwinds, we need to find ways to disrupt the ways we do business and bring big new efficiencies to our clients.”
While Ed admits that tech fatigue is real and that getting people to try new things is hard, he says that Wohlsen is a refreshing exception for a few reasons:
One of the most recent solutions implemented through Wohlsen is Join, whose motto is “the collaborative task delivery platform for the built environment. “Wohlsen first used Join as part of a housing replacement project for high-risk students at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania. With a tight 8-month timeline, a tight budget, and a new approach to structure (the task was the first in Bucknell to use a modular structure), the Wohlsen/Gensler/modular contractor team had to temporarily come up with a GMP.
“We use the Join platform to work together on informed decisions to move the task forward as temporally as possible,” says Bob Liberato, Vice President of Preconstruction and Estimating.
Dan Millard, pre-construction manager, adds: “Because so much painting was going on off-site, we needed to have a position to keep track of everything that was being converted with the module supplier and the impact it would have on it. on the site. Join has been instrumental in helping us keep track of the ins and outs.
The Bucknell team trained on the easy-to-learn platform in near-record time and achieved a GMP in 3 months.
See Wohlsen Bucknell University’s incorporation case here.
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