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May 24, 2013

McKinstry finds big savings by doing work in the shop, not on the job site

  • Dean Allen says he thinks about half of the labor used in construction is wasted. Making prefab MEP components in a shop can produce dramatic savings.
    • By BENJAMIN MINNICK
    Journal Construction Editor

    Photos by Benjamin Minnick [enlarge]
    This skid contains the hot water system for a school. It was made in McKinstry’s shop and will be almost complete when it is shipped to the school.

    Dean Allen is building things differently these days by thinking more like a manufacturer and less like a contractor, and he says it's saving his customers money.


     
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