CURT Owners See Need To Accelerate Projects, Promote Training
What's top of mind for one of the biggest construction project owners in the U.S.? Attendees at the Construction Users Roundtable national conference, held in Chandler, Ariz., on Nov. 7-9, got insight into Intel's strategy to execute $3.5 billion worth of construction in 2011.
Tim G. Hendry, Intel's procurement and fabrication vice president, said the challenge for the world's largest semiconductor manufacturer is to keep its four-year lead over competitors. "With speed comes challenges," he said. Intel is experiencing "steeper, shorter project profiles, and we've got to figure out innovative ways" to shorten the construction cycle besides putting more and more workers on the same site, Hendry said.