Client Services

Mission Critical Solutions Services

Whether you are thinking about building a new mission critical facility or making modifications to your existing one, XEC has the service offerings to assist you every step of the way from the conceptual design stage of a project through commissioning and beyond. XEC’s offering of professional services include:

• Pre-Construction Services
  • Conceptual Estimating
    • On Screen Take-Off
    • Case History of Past Projects
  • Constructability Design Reviews
    • Peer Reviews
    • Risk Mitigation
    • Building Information Modeling (BIM)
  • Value Engineering
    • Life Cycle Costs Analysis
    • Comparative Cost Analysis
    • LEED Certification/Green Technologies
• Construction Services
  • Integrated Project Controls
    • Timberline Estimating
    • Timberline Project Management
    • Timberline Accounting
  • CPM Scheduling:
    • MS Project
    • Primavera Suretrak
  • Field Management:
    • Full Time Supervision (24 x 7, if necessary)
    • Daily Documentation
    • Methods of Procedure (MOPs)
    • Accident Prevention Program
• Post-Construction & Facility Services
  • Testing and Commissioning
  • Retro Commissioning
  • As-Built Documentation

Project Delivery Methods

How your project is contracted is an important decision. The project delivery methods most common are:

• Design-Bid-Build (Bid)
• Cost-plus with a GMP (Negotiated)
• Design-Build with a GMP (Negotiated) or Fixed Cost (Bid)

Project size, complexity and timing can play a major role in the decision-making process, too. Corporate and procurement policies can also factor in the decision as to what project delivery method is used.

Many of our telecom clients use the design-bid-build method. Yet, CM at Risk with a Guaranteed Maximum Price (GMP) is also very popular because it reduces risk and provides our clients with a higher degree of estimating reliability of probable cost during the design phase.

Design-build project delivery or turn-key method can be a very effective and risk mitigating approach for many data center owners, whether it is an enterprise data center or multi-tenant data center. The single-point responsibility can be the most compelling reason why an owner would choose the design-build approach. If fast-track scheduling is necessary for any number of reasons, design-build is by far and away the best method of contracting.