10 pre-planning ideas for electrical contractors
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10 Pre-Planning and Productivity Ideas For Electrical Contractors. Session Presented At Electric West 2008.TRANSCRIPT
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Project Pre-Planning
The First Step To Increasing Productivity
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What You Will Learn – Project Pre-Planning
The cost of problems
Understanding a typical construction day
Impacting change in an organization
The outline of a project plan
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Productivity | Quality | Safety
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• Change Orders
• “People Processes”
• Profit Dynamics
• Cash Flow
• Priorities / Time Mgmt.
• Const. Financial Basics
• Construction Docs
• Schedule Management
• Pre-Planning
• Impacted Productivity
• Production Tracking
• Customer Service
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About David
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Field | Management | Consulting
In industry since 1988
Apprentice, electrician, superintendent, project management, executive
Stints with GC and CPA
Projects from service calls through $20M design & build
I love construction!
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Group Exercise: 30 Days Of Problems
Re-Work
Drawing Revisions
RFI’s
Expedited Delivery Charges
Re-Inspection Fees
Additional Days On Job
Injuries
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How Many Can You Name???
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FEEDBACK
“The Best Thing About Class Was
Dinner”8/56
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DO SOMETHING
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The Big Picture – The $1 Trillion Opportunity
US construction market is over $12 Trillion per year
10% of construction costs are for “Non-Installation” labor
Saving even 1% amounts to annual saving over $10 Billion
Labor shortages for all skilled trades will be several million people by 2010
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Cost | Productivity | Manpower
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What Are You Currently Doing / Not Doing?
The Project Lifecycle“In The Perfect World”
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Construction & Problems
FACTS
Nothing will ever go perfectly!
Problems are simply part of the construction process.
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Get Use To Them!
“If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact, not to be solved, but to be coped with over time.” – Shimon Peres (Rumsfeld’s Rules)
HOW problems are overcome determines success.
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The Cost Of Problems
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Early Detection Is Best
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PLANNING
STORIES
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…and you don’t have a workable plan then shut it down until you do. - Advice From Kiewit Superintendent Training
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If A Project Is In Trouble…
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Great Advice | Great Company
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Planning Before The Project Starts
Fixture install details
Details on submittals
Power install details
Consolidated homerun planning
Under slab detailing
Procurement / delivery plan
Value engineering
Room-by-room, circuit-by-circuit, fixture-by-fixture verification
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Overcoming Estimate Problems
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Planning Making A Bad Situation Good
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Customer Service
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PROJECTPRE-PLANNING
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How Time in Construction is SpentOpportunities For Improvement
Planning makes actual installation more efficient
Other activities such as planning and layout shifted to beginning of the project
Other activities such as site movement, material logistics, general non-productive time and re-work are minimized
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Understanding The Average Construction Day
Source
RS Means Electrical Estimating Cost Data
NECA has similar breakdown
Labor units are based on these standards – watch over time and you’ll see they are very close
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Where Can We Improve On This?
DESCRIPTION % HOURS
Study Plans 3% 0.24
Material Procurement 3% 0.24
Receiving & Storage 3% 0.24
Mobilization 5% 0.40
Site Movement 5% 0.40
Layout & Marking 8% 0.64
Actual Installation 64% 5.12
Cleanup 3% 0.24
Breaks - Non-Productive 6% 0.48
TOTAL DAY 100% 8.00
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Running 100’ of ½” EMT (3.5 Hours Time)
6 minutes spent with plans
6 minutes gathering materials
10 minutes getting mobilized to work area
15 minutes laying out area
10 minutes moving around in work area, bathroom, etc.
6 minutes cleaning up
12 minutes breaks & general non-productive time
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How The Work Typically Happens
Just over 2 hours is spent on actual installation
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A Typical 5,000 Man Hour Project
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How Many Hours Can Planning Save?
DESCRIPTION % HOURS
Study Plans 3% 150
Material Procurement 3% 150
Receiving & Storage 3% 150
Mobilization 5% 250
Site Movement 5% 250
Layout & Marking 8% 400
Actual Installation 64% 3,200
Cleanup 3% 150
Breaks - Non-Productive 6% 300
TOTAL DAY 100% 5,000
Over a 1 year long project there are 6-7 hours per day spent on activities other than the actual installation.
1,800 man hours are spent on non-installation activities.
This is what we will focus on with the planning process.
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$75,00015 Person Company
(Saving A Few Minutes Per Day)
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Four Areas of Focus – What Can You Save?
11% Plans & Layout
6% Material Procurement & Logistics
13% Mobilization, Site Movement & Cleanup
6% Breaks & Non-Productive Time
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36% Of Your Labor Budget!
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1. Plans & Layout
11% of your time is spent on these activities
550 man hours for a 5,000 man hour project!
That’s 1 person for 3 months!
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Shifting The Process To The Front End
Dimensioning off of plans
Laying out walls for UG
Cross-referencing with architectural, mechanical and structural plans
Figuring out light fixture and equipment mounting
Tracking down details on specialty fixtures / equipment
What to do – daily work tasks
Resolving problems via RFI
Incorporating addendums, SK drawings and RFI answers
Circuiting
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2. Material Procurement & Logistics
6% of your time is spent on these activities
300 man hours for a 5,000 man hour project!
That’s 1 person for 2 months!
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Getting What You Need To Build With
Making material lists
Keeping the commodities stocked in storage container
Moving materials from container or shop to gang boxes
From gang box to work area
Receiving fixtures and equipment
Figuring out where fixtures and equipment go
Staging fixtures and equipment around project
Dealing with missing parts
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3. Mobilization, Site Movement, Cleanup
13% of your time is spent on these activities
650 man hours for a 5,000 man hour project!
That’s 1 person for 4 months!
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Losing Money By Walking Around
Time from pay-start time until actual installation starts
Time before the end of the pay period that people start cleaning up
Amount of time spent walking around site looking for material or information
How you stage materials, gang boxes and storage containers
Staggering of start times so apprentices start earlier and finish later handling logistics
Project action item list / good layout
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4. Breaks & Non-Productive Time
6% of your time is spent on these activities
300 man hours for a 5,000 man hour project!
That’s 1 person for 2 months!
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Breaks OK | Non-Productive Time Bad
Only half of that time is actual break time
The rest is time getting to and from break area combined with other non-productive time.
Taking break by work area
Bring your own lunch
Using Project Action Item (PIA) list to make sure everyone has more than enough work laid-out in front
Lead by example
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Planning
Field or Office?
Which is more efficient?
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Planning Means Nothing Without Execution
“Execution is a systematic process of rigorously discussing hows and whats, tenaciously following through, and ensuring accountability.” — Larry Bossidy & Ram Charan / Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done
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Planning To Get Things Done
How will you discuss your project plan with your team?
How will you follow-up to make sure your plan is being followed?
What processes will you put in place to monitor progress?
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Building & Communicating The Plan
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Cascading Communications
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Group Exercise – Identifying Time Wasters
For the project you are about to start brainstorm all of the time wasters you can think of
Vote on the top 4 time wasters on the current project
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Starting A Plan
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ORGANIZATIONAL
CHANGE
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Change Happening In DesignBuilding Information Modeling
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Adaptation vs. Extinction
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change” – Charles Darwin
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It’s Your Choice!
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Managing Organizational Change
“If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less.”
— General Eric Shinseki, Chief of Staff. U. S. Army
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Time Consuming, Frustrating & Worth It
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Battlespace Awareness
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Better Planning = Better Execution
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The Change Process – Crossing The Chasm
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Start Small | Win Big | Brag!!
One win = a small step forward | Multiple wins = momentum
Small loss = a huge step backwards | Big loss = idea death!
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Implementing Change From Below
1. Pick 1 SMALL thing you have control over
2. Work UNDER the radar – less people = more results
3. Work like CRAZY to change that one thing
4. Document RESULTS thoroughly
5. BRAG loudly about the results
6. Give other people CREDIT as necessary
7. If no one responds – WAIT and try again later (go back to #1)
8. If people respond positively try something BIGGER
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8 Steps To Success
Remember that people are watching what you do – both inside and outside your company.
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Change In The Real Business World
Change RARELY originates at the top
Change NEVER “happens” at the top
Change, like evolution, happens SLOWLY
Change usually starts as a GRASSROOTS effort and bubbles up
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Understanding The Process
Start your “Change” library today!
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“I love using CAD software for layout. Installation is going much faster and everyone is doing it the
way I want the first time.”
- Rob McCaskill, Foreman
16 Years!
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IDEAS
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Under Slab Detailing
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What Goes Where?
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Submittal / Installation Details
Get detailed installation instructions for ALL custom equipment
Contact info for technical engineer if not clear
Get photos if possible – worth 1,000 words!
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Standard Practice For More Info
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Mounting Details
Ring type, depth & orientation
Layout for mounting
Mounting height / location
Power feed layout & connection?
Wall covering?
Hardware included?
Other misc. parts required?
Structural support details
Earthquake details
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Lighting | Power | Low-Voltage
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Light Fixtures
Room-by-room count and verification of type
Verify mounting orientation in counts
Shipping details – what gets shipped / when
Create list of lamps
Create tracking sheets for receiving fixtures / lamps
Label all fixtures when receiving with room number
Plan delivery schedule with slack in it!
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Quantities | Mounting | Logistics
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Room Detailing Packages
Use CAD software to make changes easily
Create objects to match ACTUAL submittals
Detail floor plan & wall elevations
Detail under slab stub-up locations
Check for clearances, fit and conflicts
Verify EVERY circuit with the plans
RFI conflicts, missing circuits, etc.
Create panel schedules ahead of time – correcting conflicts found
Plan homerun and feeder layout
Complete bill of materials (BOM) – factor into budget!
Assemble details, BOM, panel schedules and submittals into binder
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Power | Data | Mechanical
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Circuiting, Homeruns & Feeders
Verify circuiting against panel schedules
If circuiting isn’t shown – draw it in during the planning phase
Consolidate as many homeruns as possible
Detail out EVERY conduit run 1-1/4” and larger checking routing against structural, HVAC and architectural plans
Put as much work in under the slabs, in the decks or above the HVAC as possible – wide open = FAST!
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Consolidation | Routing
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Storage Containers & Gang Boxes
Don’t save on storage and waste manpower
Organized job storage means efficiency on the jobsite
Standardize your storage setup
Own your storage containers and customize them
Locate gang boxes very close to work areas
Have suppliers keep the storage container stocked
Have a first year apprentice keep the gang boxes stocked
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Location, Location, Location
Every time someone can’t find a bolt it costs BIG $$
Every trip to the storage container costs BIG $$
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Pre-Fabrication Opportunities
Fixtures & whips
Fixture mounting framing
Large cable runs
Box assemblies
Support assemblies
Forms for site / slab
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Build It In The Shop | Control Costs
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Value Engineering
Substitute raceway types / fittings
Dig into light fixture and gear package
Copper vs. aluminum feeders – do the math
Trading schedule time for money
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Saving Money While Making Money
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Foreman Files
Contract summary & scope
Subcontractor scopes
Project budget
Major PO’s including terms
Major material receiving forms
Test forms
Project forms – RFI’s, DEWR’s, Memo’s, Transmittals, Material Requisitions, Timecards
Submittals – including additional install details
Standardized file structure for storing information
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Safety Planning (By Phase)
Underground
Work on floor decks / roof
Branch installation 0-9’
Branch installation 10’+
Power distribution / large equipment
Power turn-on
Fixtures, devices & trim
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Group Exercise
Using the prior list of biggest time wasters on the project brainstorm everything you can do to minimize the impacts
Assign responsibilities and times to get these things done
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Infrastructure Enables You To Focus…
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Another Resource – Kerry O’Brien
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EXECUTIONDO SOMETHING IN THE NEXT
WEEK!