Seattle Contractor Operates One-Stop Sustainability Shop

摘要

Today's contracting firms build their market strategies around doing more with less, finding ways to provide better service by leveraging in-house capabilities. Seattle-based specialty contractor McKinstry has implemented those practices for years, honing its design-build, operations and maintenance (DBOM) capabilities and consolidating them under one roof to create an integrated delivery model. The goal for its clients is to maximize their energy savings and systems performance throughout the life cycle of a building.The DBOM model seeks to alleviate a fragmented process that's often inherent in the design, construction and operations of buildings, due in part to the lack of integration among disciplines."We're defragging," says Ash Awad, McKinstry chief market officer, an 18-year veteran of the firm. Among other benefits, the DBOM model eliminates the loss of continuity and knowledge that can occur as projects transition from one siloed project team member to another, including designers, contractors and operators, adds Brian Antonsen, McKinstry's director of mechani-cal construction for the Western Washington region.