Battery Cell Manufacturing Plant
A 1.6 million square foot battery cell plant where Jacob Wiseman ran the schedule, cost forecast and trade packages for the owner from site work to first production.
- Owner
- Confidential
- Location
- U.S.
- Our role
- Agency construction manager
- Delivery
- Agency CM
- Scale
- 1.6M SF
- Completed
- 2024
A 1.6 million square foot cell plant with dry rooms and formation lines, where we ran the schedule, cost forecast and trade packages for the owner from site work to first production.
The owner had committed to a production start date to customers before design was complete. Dry rooms, formation areas and process utilities had demanding tolerances, and dozens of prime contracts, equipment vendors and process installers had to share one site. Without one integrated schedule, nobody could see which late package was pushing first production.
The approach.
- 01
One integrated schedule
We built and maintained a master schedule that tied every prime contract, equipment delivery and process installation to first production.
- 02
Packages bid in waves
Site, structure, envelope and utility packages were released in waves so construction could start while process design finished.
- 03
Forecast the owner could trust
A monthly cost and schedule forecast showed trends, exposure by package and the decisions needed to hold the production date.
- 04
Equipment handoffs managed
Each area had a ready-for-equipment date, inspected and accepted before process vendors moved in.
The outcome.
“With forty contracts on one site, the owner needs one plan. We kept it honest, even when it was showing bad news.”
Project controls manager, Jacob Wiseman
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