Budget EstimatesFiguring Out Your Financial Impact!Determining project financial impact in reference to current codes or recently adopted International Building Code (IBC) 2000 or 2003 changes is catching many project teams by surprise. With the IBC specifically, the project consulting teams is now responsible for classifying the Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing (MEP) systems and utilities based on its particular end use. This classification has tremendous impact on how the utility is braced and what size will need bracing. Determining these utility classifications and determining the financial impact should happen at the same time. Commonly the financial impact is not recognized until after budgets are set with building owners and even after the subcontractors are on board. This can not only bust a budget, but can cause undue backlash and mountains of contested change orders.
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# of Hospital Projects |
Subcontractor Trades |
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2007 |
147 Hospital Projects |
339 Separate MEP Trades |
The seismic restraint of suspended HVAC ducts, fire protection piping, electrical utilities and plumbing/piping systems for hospital construction projects has been a daily function of ISAT for many years. Although we have a broad range of project types under our belt, we are extremely proud of our hospital experience.
If you are involved in healthcare construction, you are familiar with the issues that compound the process. Highly congested hospital corridors, more stringent code requirements and ambiguous inspection influences all complicate an already tricky construction project. Past experience has proven a solid understanding of inherent issues and a good base knowledge of the seismic bracing code requirements by the entire construction and design team, can drastically streamline issues surrounding seismic bracing code compliance.
Contact ISAT to provide the latest insight to streamline your scope of work regarding seismic bracing code compliance for the IBC 2000/2003 and OSHPD projects.
Key Aspects to Consider
The ISAT Design, Installation and Inspection Manual OPA-0485 is the most comprehensive OSHPD pre-approval in existence. Utilizing the ISAT OPA-0485 pre-approval, combined with our current OSHPD experience, has proven to be the single most effective tool in streamlining the OSHPD document review and plan approval process. Contact ISAT to learn more regarding our approach.
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