How Flexible Delivery Models Streamline the Construction Project Lifecycle
“Flexibility” is a buzzword often thrown around on company websites and marketing. We use it, but it’s not an amorphous, ill-defined cliché to us. As one of the leading flexible delivery companies, our flexible delivery expresses itself in very specific ways. We’re engineers – we like precision. So we’d like to share the details on what our flexible delivery looks like for our clients.
Meeting You Where You Are in Your Construction Project Lifecycle
We engage with clients at any stage in a construction project lifecycle. When you come to us early in the process, you have the greatest flexibility for us to help define project requirements that meet your business objectives in the most cost-efficient way. Many clients approach us first for our Front End Planning (FEP) services. We provide a conceptual design aligned with a realistic budget and timeline, which clients often use for budget approval before contracting with us for execution.
For clients who have already completed some internal work and documented requirements, we take the baton and advance the scope of the project. In some cases, we collaborate to further refine these requirements before ACS engineers develop a fully designed solution. From there, our team can guide the project through execution and final verification.
Wherever your organization is in the project lifecycle, we can meet you there. In rare cases, that could mean a design-only project. More typical of our work, we can deliver you a full turnkey solution of both test cell and construction projects. Our in-house expertise allows us to adapt our construction project lifecycle approach and suite of services to match your specific project needs.
Tailoring Project Delivery Models
Our flexibility extends to project delivery models, though we typically prefer an Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) approach. We work with various models—whether design-build, CMAR, or others—that align with your project goals and risk tolerance.
What truly sets us apart as a flexible delivery company is our unwavering commitment to performance responsibility. We don’t just build to design specifications; we verify that all systems operate as intended, meeting the success criteria we defined with you at the start of the project.
Our team’s experience with different delivery models allows us to adapt and work seamlessly with you while maintaining our high standards for project outcomes. For ACS, the flexible delivery model is about finding the right fit that aligns with your goals and our expertise.
Integrating with Your Team
One of the biggest challenges in ramping up a complex project is integrating workflows among new partners. The thought of adjusting your established processes—from reporting to documentation methods—to accommodate external stakeholders can be exhausting. That’s why we’ve made it our priority to adapt to your systems, not the other way around. We see ourselves as an extension of your team, ready to work within your established procedures and workflows.
Our adaptability also extends to working with your existing equipment vendors, contractors, and design consultants. We understand that setting up new vendor relationships can be daunting and potentially disruptive. We respect the relationships you’ve built and incorporate them into our project management and design teams. If you have specific equipment requirements or longstanding design consultants, we integrate these resources with our ACS team under one umbrella.
Adopting your preferred workflows and working with your existing vendor relationships are just a few of the ways our flexibility enhances project efficiency and simplify your operations.
Flexible Solutions, Rigid Standards
ACS’ adaptability helps streamline the construction project lifecycle and enables us to offer our clients tailored options that optimize their business objectives while respecting constraints. During the verification phase, however, we’re unwavering. We assume performance responsibility for all our projects. This commitment aligns our incentives with yours, as it sets the ground for genuine collaboration and safeguards your investment.
