Ingenuity Magazine Winter 2020

Pond Ingenuity Winter 2020 5 estimating. They obtained buy-in from the client for the plan that reflected the centrifuge laboratory manager’s priorities, which were: 1) Renovate the control building and enclose the covered walkway connecting the control building and the containment facility 2) Construct a new storage annex ad j acen t and connec t t o t he containment facility 3) Make roof, site and other building system repairs to the containment facility GSL will be pursuing funding for the two follow-on phases in subsequent years. The cost validation, concept floor plans and renderings provided by Raymond- Pond will assist the centrifuge’s manager in marketing the need for the follow-on project phases. After the charrette, a charrette report, a draft RFP, and a final RFP were developed and are ready to advertise RFP submittals. The lab manager and the Mobile Corps Project Manager were so satisfied with Raymond-Pond’s work that they agreed to forego one of the two planned design reviews and an intermediate submittal. Raymond-Pond successfully delivered the completed product 32 days ahead of schedule. The success of the partnership between GSL’s centrifuge manager, ERDC’s facility manager, the Mobile District Corps of Engineers, and the Raymond-Pond team can be summed up in two ways: First, professional, pragmatic, friendly and solutions-based focus was maintained by all involved parties; and secondly, there is a large sense of pride that the Raymond-Pond JV team had in working to get a key part of our Nation’s engineering research and development capability back into operation.  Matt Allinson, PMP, GGP, Col, USAF (Ret.) Senior Project Manager The centrifuge and its supporting containment facility and control building were constructed in the early 1990s. One problem with this setup is the models don’t survive travel from the buildup location to the centrifuge very well