Partnering with North America’s Pre-eminent Manufacturers Benefits Your Construction
John Lohan • Jan 23, 2024
As a turnkey general contractor, Double Black Construction works with manufacturing partners to deliver ongoing return on investment for clients.
Double Black Construction’s team has been erecting custom steel buildings since 1991. Their reputation for innovation within the construction industry has been built through their strategic and long-term partnerships with North America’s key steel building manufacturers. Relying on the best cold-formed pre-engineered steel materials has enabled the company to expand its capabilities to provide more solutions, with increased architectural flexibility and design options for clients.
The firm delivers highly efficient and cost-effective construction projects with a lower environmental impact than any other solution on the market. Partnerships with top component manufacturers, such as Summit Steel Buildings, Toro Steel Buildings
and Olympia Steel Buildings, are successful by combining their advanced steel modular systems with the most reliable certified construction teams who use the latest lean construction practices.
Manufacturing Partnerships Make the Dream Work
Double Black Construction has been responsible for exciting industrial and commercial projects, including an arena project in Nunavut and TCS Concrete Solutions’ new production facility (view these projects). Working alongside North America’s most reputable steel building manufacturers complements their existing capabilities in design-build, constriction management and general contracting services. Double Black Construction accesses the industry’s best resources, including technology-driven precision engineering platforms. This helps produce resilient and durable steel buildings up to three stories in height for a broad range of commercial uses, such as manufacturing, warehousing and processing facilities for the agricultural, forestry, mining and automotive parts industries.
By working with large manufacturers to create bespoke steel modules that already comply with local building codes, your building can be customized to specific dimensions and fit-out specifications, all with a wide choice of different façades and finishes. Double Black Construction draws on wider technological knowledge in design and modular production from their partners and benefits from their research and development capabilities to stay cutting-edge. They bring together their own engineering and execution experience with the manufacturing and supply-chain expertise of their suppliers to create sophisticated steel building solutions with a shorter delivery time. Pre-engineered steel framing creates large clear spans at an affordable price. Steel’s superior strength-to-weight ratio creates open spaces with up to 300 feet of unobstructed space without pillars or supports.
How Partnering with Key Industrial Manufacturers Benefits Your Next Project:
1. Computerized design with digital modeling
Double Black Construction benefits from their partnering manufacturers’ virtual design capabilities to augment their own architectural abilities to create pre-construction simulations
of each final pre-engineered steel building. This virtual environment supports the construction process by ensuring all measurements are more accurate and final fittings are more precise. An advance 3-D rendering means clients can view their final building in a real-time simulation and make any necessary changes before foundations are poured or any components have been ordered or made. This allows the project manager, planning teams and key decision-makers to view the construction at certain stages and use the computer modelling to help increase quality assurance while reducing errors, building times and total construction costs. Digital modelling helps minimize problems and delays during on-site construction.
2. General management using precision engineering and best practices
Double Black Construction merges traditional skilled manpower construction practices with the best of daily planning software to help master team scheduling and collaboration and to link jobsite data and analytics throughout projects. Partnerships within the industry ensure your steel fabrication, concrete and other scopes of work is delivered with the best value. Building capabilities incorporate energy-efficient lighting, appliances and mechanical systems, coupled with high-performance windows, water-efficient fixtures and utility monitoring to minimize resource consumption and reduce long-term operation costs. As a result, your project is delivered with superior construction quality and real-time progress reporting. Innovation creates effective planning, enhanced collaboration and communication that’s proven to be a force multiplier for completing projects according to plan. The goal is to exceed quality expectations and to provide clients a completed project within budget.
3. Pre-engineering results in a positive cost-benefit analysis
Capital projects are under more scrutiny for getting the most our of a modest budget. Pre-engineered steel buildings are more economical and offer more sustainability than using brick and mortar or timber materials. Working with steel is generally 30% less than the price of traditional construction and takes about as third as long to complete. When 50-60% of your project’s total costs come from materials, using cost-effective pre-engineered components means more of the savings can be used toward other parts of the final project outside of construction. Ongoing operational savings and steel building’s ability to maintain its long-term value continue to make your construction project a great return on investment:
- Because it’s made with steel, your building requires minimal upkeep with lower ongoing maintenance costs (read more about cost savings).
- Ongoing energy savings are created through combining efficient insulation and more natural light. An energy-efficient pre-engineered building uses R-30 or R-40 insulation that can lead to big savings on utility bills.
- Should you no longer need your steel building at its current location or with its present use, it can be easily deconstructed and moved or modified in its layout to adapt to a new purpose at a fraction of the cost of building new. Why build another facility when you can transform the one you already have into another use?
Strategic Partnerships Drive Efficient and Cost-Effective Construction Projects
Double Black Construction offers total turnkey projects
and design-build, construction management and general contracting services. We excel at doing many phases of construction with our own forces as well as supervising and co-ordinating a variety of trades and subcontractors (such as electrical or plumbing). These partnerships, along with the longstanding ones on the supply side with our pre-engineered steel building manufacturers, allow us to be cost efficient, maintain steady and reliable access to components (regardless of supply-chain disruption) so we can dependably meet deadlines.
Double Black Construction takes pride in completing quality projects on time and on budget. Contact us
when you need a free quote and to get started on your next capital project. Don't hesitate to reach out to John Lohan at info@doubleblackconstruction.com
or (833) 322-2722.
About the author:
John Lohan has over 15 years of experience designing, engineering and installing over 500 metal buildings for architects and clients across North America and the globe. He’s managed all aspects of steel building construction, including material logistics and managing local and foreign construction teams. John also has special expertise in concrete foundation and excavation. He can be contacted at Double Black Construction at (833) 322-2722, by email at john@DoubleBlackConstruction.com
or on LinkedIn.
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