Richland Elementary School
K-12 · Southern California
Caston delivered fifteen scopes at Richland Elementary School under one contract, allowing Balfour Beatty to hire a single contractor where a project like this would normally take eight.
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- Market
- K-12 Education
- Location
- Southern California
- General contractor
- Balfour Beatty
- Scopes
- Fifteen under one contract
- Consolidation
- What is normally eight subcontractors
- Result
- Less coordination, scope-gap risk, and management
Fifteen scopes. One contractor.
Richland Elementary carried fifteen separate scopes, including elevators and doors, frames, and hardware, scopes of work that are notoriously difficult to manage.
Bid conventionally, that package would have meant eight different subcontractors, with coordination, scope-gap risk, and management multiplied across every one of them.
How Caston Built It
The approach that kept the date
Fifteen scopes under one contract
From framing and carpentry through wall coverings, louvers, painting, firestopping, and water repellant coatings, the package ran through Caston.
The difficult scopes included
Elevators and doors, frames, and hardware, the scopes general contractors usually dread, were managed inside the same contract.
Eight subcontractors became one
Balfour Beatty contracted with Caston for what normally would have been eight different subcontractors, significantly reducing coordination and scope-gap risk.
One accountable team
One project team owned sequencing across every scope, so gaps between trades had nowhere to hide.
Scope Self-Performed
- Metal stud framing
- Rough carpentry
- Lath and plaster
- Drywall
- Insulation
- Fiber cement cladding
- Sheet metal flashing
- Building expansion joints
- Wall coverings
- Metal louvers
- Doors, frames, and hardware
- Elevators
- Painting
- Firestopping
- Water repellant coatings
Outcome
15
Scopes under one Caston contract
8 to 1
Subcontractors consolidated into a single partner
Balfour Beatty
General contractor on the project
Less
Coordination, scope-gap risk, and management