Accelerate Project Schedules with a Self-Performing General Contractor

Vendor selection on your project can have schedule advantages.

A construction project is a delicate balance of work sequences, many closely dependent on others. Any number of outside forces can interrupt the flow of work, from inclement weather to illness to supply chain disruptions. Research shows that nearly 80% of construction businesses expect delays on some or all of their projects.

Delayed projects can result in higher overall project management costs and missed deadlines, but there are ways to minimize the pain of delays and overruns. The current state of the supply chain and skilled labor market often causes delays that cannot be easily mitigated, risking speed-to-market and your project's goals and objectives. Working with a self-performing general contractor can help you accelerate project schedules.

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Mitigating Schedule Challenges by

Engaging Your Contractor's Skilled Craftworkers

Build with In-house Labor

Schedule predictability is dependent on labor availability. A contractor with a robust self-perform workforce can confidently commit the required labor force for a project. Even with an unforeseen delay or the need to accelerate, they can assign teams without negotiating with outside entities.

Integrate Critical Scopes

Self-performing critical path scopes like concrete and drywall allows contractors to accelerate the project schedule and adapt when needed. These scopes can make up more than 55% of the critical path items and integrate with many other scopes.

Optimize Prefab Installation

When contractors have the ability to design and manufacture prefabricated elements of a building, it unlocks higher efficiency and quality. When prefabrication capabilities are combined with an available and trained workforce that can assemble and install these elements, last minute punch-list issues and delays are mitigated.

Start Earlier

There is a big difference between buildable and biddable, and self-performing contractors know what it takes to build before documents reach a biddable state. They can start activities at the earliest possible moment, estimate the right price based on preliminary documents, and get a head start on finding solutions that fit the project budget.

Anticipate the Supply Chain

By bringing the critical self-performed trades in early, contractors can get started sooner and pre-purchase items. With the volatile state of the supply chain, this could make or break deadlines and have positive cost and budget implications.

Incorporate Field Expertise in Planning & Modeling

With a “model what you build/build what you model” approach, self-performing contractors can use data-rich 3D building information modeling (BIM) to virtually build the scopes they self-perform. These detailed models are built on insight from the field teams and used to coordinate, plan and track work—resulting in less rework.

Taking control of your project schedule is just one of the ways you can reduce project risk with SPW.