In a market where material escalation and long lead items are having significant project impacts, our team is focused on ensuring our design services reduce that risk. Axiom provides structural engineering with a focus on impacting project schedules and cost predictability for owners and contractors. Using our Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) workflow for concurrent design and construction activities, the results are accelerated material onsite for critical path items and reducing the cost uncertainty of onboarding early trade partners.
Additionally, Axiom has partnered with 22-year steel experts at Evolve Steel to provide early steel procurement and shop drawings services. This allows these activities to be done concurrently with design and prior to final trade partner selection.
Key stages of our process include:
Target Value budgets: The initial decision on selection of systems is a critical departure point and this decision is often made with the least amount of information. In the current market there is a lot of demand on estimators, so the better data we can provide, the more accurate the feedback is to select the right systems. We do this by focusing on BIM quantities and materials for the trade partners using Revit and Tekla software.
Pull planning: Defining critical milestones and exactly what is needed for construction is imperative. Axiom takes these expectations back to drive alignment with the design team so we are working on the right things at the right time that move the project forward to critical dates for pre-construction and construction milestones.
Early Material orders and Trade Partner selection: Selecting a trade partner to move up long lead items is critical for project success in today’s market. Our ISD process is ensuring the commitments for early trade partners to achieve a material order still protects the owner and Design Builder from costly change orders.
Steel Turn Key Solutions: Evolve Steel’s utilizes Tekla Fabrol and management for the final buyout, fabrication and erection.