Great Oak High
School, Temecula
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Great Oak High
School, Temecula
Photo by Jim Brady
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The $45.4 million facility is on a 51-acre site in the Redhawk
neighborhood of Temecula and features 250,000 sq. ft. of academic
and support buildings and athletic facilities. Constructing
that amount of space in 26 buildings in a tight, 15-month
schedule was nothing short of a great achievement.
Barnhart Inc. instituted several methods in an effort to
meet this tight schedule.
A massive manpower effort was undertaken by the trade contractors.
Maintaining large crews was also a challenge in the rapidly
growing western part of Riverside County.
Finding and cultivating qualified, safe and effective crews
is a challenge on any large, long-term construction project,
especially in a developing area.
"This is the fourteenth high school
I have built in my career and I have never seen anything
like the level of service Barnhart provided. Barnhart
staff members left no loose ends, every curve we threw
at them was pulled together tremendously. Barnhart has
truly outdone themselves."
-Dave Gallaher, director
of facilities, Temecula Valley
Unified School District
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Proactive management helped build a strong core crew and
regular communication at weekly meetings with the school district,
architect, trade contractors and Barnhart officials facilitated
effective communication. The meetings aligned everyone for
the goals of that particular week and allowed the construction
team to develop necessary schedules and address manpower needs.
Managing the schedule was also imperative to meet the district's
needs. Barnhart utilized its scheduling professionals to provide
the construction team with monthly updated schedules, three-week,
look-ahead schedules, manpower-loaded schedules and recovery
schedules.
Project employees utilized a state-of-the-art CPM scheduling
program for proficiency.
The Barnhart scheduler visited the jobsites weekly and met
with the construction team to update completed items and percentages
complete of work in progress.
Each trade contractor received a two-week look-ahead of just
its work. The schedules were also forwarded to each trade
contractor's home office to ensure that each contractor was
fully aware of upcoming milestone dates.
The Development Team
Owner: Temecula Valley Unified School District
Architect: Frick Frick, and Jette
Owner's representative: Temecula Valley Unified
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Construction manger: Douglas E. Barnhart Inc.
Key subcontractors:
PK Mechanical (site utilities)
New Dimension Masonry
Quality Steel
Cuyamaca Construction (framing)
Dow Diversified (casework)
J. P. Witherow (roofing)
Challenger Sheet Metal
Perfection Glass
Insulcom (insulation)
Standard Drywall
FSE (kitchen equipment)
Verne 's Plumbing
A ble Heating & Air
Champion Electric - Electric
ISEC (sports equipment)
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