As a trusted business partner with IBM in the management of crises and disasters, Treadstone incorporated the latest in technology to efficiently and effectively manage all aspects of construction projects under the most demanding and difficult conditions. The challenges of managing crisis across the globe led us to employ leading edge technologies, allowing our teams to quickly build the most efficient schedules utilizing the latest in crisis management principles.
When schedule and quality are both critical, no one can match the effort, experience, and effectiveness of Treadstone. Our experience in crisis management and recovery is unequaled, ranging from explosions in Johannesburg, South Africa, to earthquakes in California, fires in Milan, Italy, ice storms in Canada, and a bombing in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Employing techniques honed and polished through that experience, our schedules are often “fast-track builds on steroids”. Although our competition may understand the concept of fast-track construction, our experience provides us with the practice that differentiates us from the competition.
The construction environment is often an uncertain one, with conditions changing in response to project complexity. Successfully executing an aggressive schedule in this environment requires enhanced risk management programs that identify, in advance, potential issues and mitigate those issues before they create a failure. During the course of project, no one can guarantee that unforeseen issues won’t surface. However, a proactive risk management process in the hands of the practiced professionals at Treadstone minimizes the impact of those “unknowns” on the project, maximizing the project success.
Treadstone professionals manage the following project life cycle program in each and every project:
Phase
Stages
Steps
Conceptualization
Conceive the product
Trigger event
Concept capture
Clarification of purpose
Concept elaboration
Concept evaluation
Planning
Design
The product strategy
Plan
The execution strategy
Allocate
Resources tactically
Basic design
Development of performance criteria
Design development
Plan evaluation
Basic activities and resources plan
Development of targets and milestones
Plan development
Plan evaluation
Basic design and activity based plan detail
Development of resource allocation criteria
Allocation development
Allocation evaluation
Execution
Execute
Production
Coordinate and control
Monitor progress
Modification of targets and milestones
Allocation modification
Control evaluation
Termination
Deliver
The results
Review
The process
Basic deliverable verification
Deliverable modification
Modification of performance criteria
Deliver evaluation
Basic review
Review development
Review evaluation
Support
Support
The results
Basic Maintenance and liability
perception
Development of support criteria
Support perception development
Within this framework Treadstone identifies risks (i.e., weather, design issues, long lead items, accidents, labor issues, etc.) and develops plans to mitigate the risk while maintaining the extremely aggressive schedules.
Key to all management programs is the decision making process. Treadstone’s management structure integrates an efficient process designed to eliminate hindrances without risk omission or misunderstanding.