Stanmar Inc.

321 Commonwealth Road, Suite 201

Wayland, MA 01778

USA

Website:

https://www.stanmar-inc.com

Phone:(508) 242-3820

Fax:(508) 310-0479

Nantucket’s Historic District Commission had to give its approval before the Nantucket Boys & Girls Club project could begin construction. (Photo by Runaway Bride Nantucket)

Being Proactive Can Ensure Construction Approvals

Most school or program administrators are experienced in seeking permission from local or campus authorities to erect signage, enter into a facility use reciprocity agreement with another entity or any number of similar operational issues

(Photo By Brian Ebner)

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Author Oliver Snider is the director of business development for the design-build firm Stanmar Inc.

Savings and Risks in Fast-Tracked Construction

Last time I wrote, we talked about owners’ adjusted expectations of the building process when fast-tracking a construction project. What, exactly, accounts for the potential money savings in a fast-tracked process?

Facility owners should understand their needs and be able to prioritize them going into the building process, Burke says.

When Supervision and Privacy Go Head to Head

The need for supervision of recreation facilities is acute, and the prescription is by now familiar — a centralized plan that affords administrators clear views into activity spaces from control points, and ample glass linking activity spaces with streetscapes and each other.

The Kesler Student Activities Center at Taylor University.

Extreme Makeover: Small College Edition

Many institutions remain wary of making large capital investments in the face of tightening fundraising opportunities and enrollments.

A rendering of the World Trade Center Transportation Hub referenced in the piece. (Image via Port Authority of New York and New Jersey)

How to Keep Costly ‘Scope Creep’ at Bay When Building

"Scope creep" describes the situation where continuous, subtle expansion of a project hurts the design and cost. Find out how to avoid it on your next project.

Rendering courtesy of Stanmar Inc.

In Facility Design, Changing Course Needn't Be a Crisis

Perhaps you’re in the enviable position of having hired an architect, who recommended an owner’s representative, who in turn handled the hiring of a general contractor, and the four of you have planned and are constructing a great new building. Or, perhaps not. Maybe you hired an architect, fired that architect, and have since had to assemble and reassemble your planning team, player by player, at different times — and will still end up with a great new building.

As Stanmar's Ralph Agostinelli writes, the definition of hiring 'local' can vary.

Blog: When Hiring Local Is Impossible, We Hire Regional

I have a question for operators of nonprofit recreation centers: Do you hire local? Your fitness director, your aquatics director, your front-desk staff, the people who handle your janitorial services — where do they live?

Building a facility on say, an island such as Nantucket, will impact a facility's cost and timeline moreso than a facility built in a more accessible setting.

How Facility Location Impacts the Building Process

I’m heading down to Nantucket next week. That’s not unusual. I head down to Nantucket every week, since we’re building a Boys & Girls Club addition there. But doing business on Nantucket is very unusual — and it drives home the message of how construction projects play out in different locations.Prospective building owners often assume that you can take a $10 million rec center in one location, plop it down in another location, and it’ll still be a $10 million rec center. Many of them are surprised to hear that a 14-month construction schedule in one place might — with the same program, square footage and materials — be a 16-month job in another. Nantucket is the proof that there is no “normal.”The nature of working on an island is that everything costs more and takes longer. This can also be true of other more-remote, rural locations. But Nantucket has other issues, too. Tourism is its primary source of revenue, and it’s seasonal revenue. To protect its tourism interests, there’s a local statute that bars construction within the downtown commercial district during the summer. This not only shortens the construction season to eight and a half months in that area, it eliminates the prime construction season.

During Construction It’s Decision Time, Again and Again

The design is complete, the shovels are in the ground. How are you planning to spend the next 12 to 18 months, while your new building takes shape?

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