The Discovery Tower in downtown Houston is a 30-story Gold LEED pre-certified building with a 16-month construction schedule. Marek Brothers Systems, a commercial and residential construction company, was contracted to construct drywall and acoustical ceilings. As the building was coming out of the ground, a potential tenant asked the contractor to define the cost impact of increasing floor heights, adding additional stairs and reconfiguring the core layout-and do it within 48 hours. Phil Nevlud, drywall sales manager/chief estimator with Marek Brothers Systems, explains that 48 hours is a tough turnaround for any recalculation, but the breadth of changes requested in this particular case might have been impossible.
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机译：休斯顿市区的探索塔是一幢30层的LEED金牌预认证建筑，建设工期为16个月。商业和住宅建筑公司Marek Brothers Systems被承包建造干墙和隔音天花板。当建筑物倒塌时，潜在的租户要求承包商确定增加地板高度，增加更多楼梯和重新配置核心布局的成本影响，并在48小时内完成。 Marek Brothers Systems的干式墙销售经理/首席估算师Phil Nevlud解释说，对于任何重新计算而言，48小时都是艰难的周转时间，但是在这种特殊情况下要求进行大范围的更改可能是不可能的。
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