Builders Use Energetic Approach for Oak Ridge National Lab's Chemical, Material Sciences Building
Construction management at-risk is old hat for many contractors, and the use of building information modeling is quickly becoming the same. But on the Oak Ridge National Laboratory Chemical and Material Sciences Building project in Oak Ridge, Tenn., McCarthy Building Cos. and Cannon Design broke new ground for the Dept. of Energy when the team used both processes for the first time on a DOE project.
The end result of pushing the government's envelope for building construction methods? The builders delivered the three-story, 160,000-sq-ft research facility six months ahead of schedule with more square footage than originally planned.