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<br />Maintain Time Schedules
<br />Due to multiple teams set within BEA, we are equipped to handle multiple jobs without affecting the flow or the ability to meet deadlines. Based on an assessment of our current workload, BEA has sufficient personnel and capacity available to immediately assign the designated team to undertake and proceed with the project tasks. BEA will assign a project team headed by the Principal-In-Charge as Project Manager. The team consists of CAD/BIM production staff, specification writers, schedulers, estimators and a host of illustrators. Visual exhibits are key to the project approval phase as well as to City’s outreach process. BEA works with the latest digital programs, such as, AutoCAD, REVIT/BIM, 3D, Max, Rhino, and other digital platforms. In addition, we have an in-house Graphic Design Department with full printing and binding capabilities that perform the preparation of brochures and any other media related to the project.
<br />Cost Control and Value Engineering
<br />Our approach to value engineering and cost control is tied to our design philosophy – we work collaboratively to present a creative, organized effort to achieve all the essential functions at the lowest total cost without jeopardizing the design quality. The team presents various options during the early stages of design, as we develop the project in close collaboration with the City of Sunny Isles Beach. These options are analyzed for cost impact as well as design operational, implementation and schedule implications. The Value Engineering process is most technologically efficient when is the result of the collaboration between the owner, the architect, the engineer, the general contractor and/or the construction manager so that choices are made together and implications are weighted from all sides. We see value engineering as a response to ever-shifting project conditions, such as, the market environment, labor forces, and availability of products. Therefore, is part of our business landscape so that our team can be prepared to accommodate change within reason. BEA Team includes two licensed general contractors whom assist in the constructability reviews and estimating processes of every project.
<br />Quality Control
<br />BEA employs a three-step Quality Control Review System that extends to coordination of sub-consultants drawing and calculations, whereby the Deputy Project Manager is the first reviewer of the work product. His mark-ups are incorporated and sent to the Senior Architect assigned to the project. Said partner’s comments are incorporated and sent to the Principal-In-Charge, Bruno-Elias Ramos, AIA, GC, NCARB,
<br />LEED AP, for a final review. Each individual’s mark-ups are recorded in their own color, and the entire check set is maintained on file.
<br />In addition, Mr. Ramos, as peer reviewer and Principal-In-Charge of BEA, will conduct specific analysis of project documentation. The three-step process is used at 50% and 100% construction documents and as necessary at other phase intervals. Of course, the client is the fourth step of the review process. Though it may appear at first cumbersome, we have found controlling documents in this manner helps projects of all sizes to run smoothly.
<br />Software Expertise
<br />In addition to on-site, face-to-face meetings, the team has an extremely successful record of experience hosting on-line working/collaboration meetings using Google Meet/Zoom Meeting technology. At these online collaboration and work sessions, BEA is capable of presenting in real time via shared screen protocol; BIM models, CAD drawings, renderings, shop drawings and specifications, as well as job site/construction photographs and images for discussion and review by all remote meeting participants. In the course of a Google Meet Meeting collaboration and work session, BEA has the ability to quickly make and assess changes to a design, as well as review and coordinate design work between the various disciplines, and discuss coordination issues with all remote meeting participants. Thus, in many cases, design and construction issues that may typically require two or three days to coordinate and resolve may be solved expeditiously at one sitting without the need to travel or experience long waits between reviews.
<br />BEA uses 3D animation software and BIM (Building Information Management technology) to aid the client and the design and construction team to design successful and meaningful spaces that are fully coordinated across all disciplines. Animation provides a visualization of the concept and allows the client to encounter, visualize and
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