Hot take · 39:14
// THE QUOTE
“you think of a typical lump sum project, put it out to tender, oh wow we're 10 million dollars over budget”
— Catherine Hefler · PCL Construction
Punchy contrast between lump-sum blowups and reacting in real time, a tight self-contained risk-model point.
Full episode at 39:14Building Nova Scotia's Largest School: Inside Bedford Ravines with PCL & Architecture 49 ▸
THE LESSON THIS CLIP CARRIES
When the budget is fighting you mid-design, break out a rough-grade civil package to keep the site moving while you value-engineer the building.
“we broke out a civil package just to rough grade the site”
THE CHAPTER IT LIVES IN
Sequential tendering and cost certainty
36:11
Clips like this, every two weeks.
SOURCE: 39:14 of Building Nova Scotia's Largest School: Inside Bedford Ravines with PCL & Architecture 49