Projects
Bassett
personnel have managed or been involved in the following projects, either here or at other companies.
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Biotechnology/Pharmeceutical
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Bassett's
experienced construction managers and
engineers address all utility services and casework issues up
front- building from an "inside-out" perspective- to ensure a timely and
cost-efficient delivery of projects.
From small, economical biology labs for start-up companies to complex
bio-containment facilities for world-class biopharmaceutical
corporations,
Bassett's range of proven expertise provides customers
with a seasoned driver equipped in planning, coordinating,
constructing and validating even the most technically challenging and
complex laboratories and facilities.
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Semiconductor |
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Celestica
Manufacturing Facility
Fort Collins, CO
Owner:
Celestica Corporation
Architect:
Young + Wright Architects
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Duration:
14 months |
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After
being assigned the responsibility of Colorado Regional Manager of DPR
Construction, Dan Bassett oversaw the completion of the construction of the
200,000-sq.-ft. high-tech manufacturing facility in Fort Collins, Colorado. This
is a showcase facility for Celestica in manufacturing services for the United
States with potential for two additional 200,000-sq.-ft. expansions on this site
in the future.
As the third largest worldwide participant in the rapidly expanding electronics
manufacturing services industry, Celestica provides a full range of services
including design, prototyping, assembly, testing, product assurance, worldwide
distribution and after-sales service to its customers in the computer,
telecommunication and related industries.
The first building included a manufacturing facility with clean rooms, a
warehouse equipped with trucking dock, cafeteria, break rooms, offices, lobby,
customer briefing center, conference rooms, nurse station, security office,
failure analysis labs and calibration labs, product modeling shop and mail room.
Bassett
and the rest of the DPR team’s commitment to customer satisfaction was
evident: on a performance survey, Celestica reported that the project team
"exceeded" or "far exceeded" expectations in eight categories. Accurate
scheduling and constant communication with Celestica allowed for timely
progress, as well as early move-in times for production equipment.
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Semiconductor |
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Rockwell
Semiconductor
200mm Wafer Fab
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Owner:
Rockwell Semiconductor Systems
Architect:
Jacobs Engineering Group
Project
Duration:
12 months
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While with Jacobs,
Dan Bassett
worked with Rockwell to establish the budgets
and oversaw pre-construction activities. This assured that the Contractor
(DPR Construction) maintained cost estimated values throughout the design
and construction phases.
This Rockwell Semiconductor Systems project (actually two wafer fabrication
facilities within a single 240,000 sq. ft. building) is one of the largest and
fastest projects. The $125 million design/build project was completed on
schedule in less than 12 months despite winter weather setbacks and a
confined site that required precise coordination of the 800 workers on
site.
The Rockwell project utilized a 18,300-item microelectronics cost
database established by Dan Bassett and his pre-construction team, which
is tailored specifically to such large semiconductor projects.
Adjoining buildings incorporate state-of-the-art process tools capable
of producing 0.35 micron geometries. A central plant building was also
included in the project. Although market downturns forced Rockwell to
suspend completion of the project, Rockwell Senior Project Manager Frank Shukis stated that the project was a huge success.
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Semiconductor |
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Rockwell
International
Wafer Fab and Infrastructure
Newport Beach, California
Owner:
Rockwell International Corp.
Architect:
Ehrlich-Rominger
Project
Duration:
6 months
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By working around-the-clock seven days a week and precisely coordinating
the overlapped progress of different tradespeople,
Bassett built new
diffusion, etch and lithography fabrication areas for Rockwell
Telecommunications in just six months, including the tool hookup. The
schedule was considered "impossible" by some, but brought rave reviews
from Rockwell officials when the technically demanding job came in ahead
of schedule.
In just four and a half months, the clean rooms were fully functional and
ready for the exacting process tool hookup, which
Bassett completed in the
next six weeks. At the outset,
Bassett established a mission statement and
project goals in close cooperation with Rockwell officials, two steps
which were considered vital to the project’s stunning success.
The project included building 17,500 sq. ft. of Class 1 clean rooms to
house Rockwell’s 8-inch wafer fabrication process. To support the expanded
fabrication area,
Bassett directed upgrades on the existing central plant
that included 3,500 tons of new chiller capacity and 10,000 tons of new
cooling tower capacity. Main electrical service upgrades were also carried
out.
To serve the fab area, parts-per-billion specialty gas systems and bulk
gas systems were installed.
Bassett
also constructed a new bulk chemical building that housed all specialty
gases and wet chemistry pumps.
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Semiconductor |
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LSI Logic
2500 WSW Tool Hook-up
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Owner:
LSI Logic
Architect:
HDR, Inc.
Project
Duration:
7 months |
Bassett
expanded LSI Logic’s infrastructure and tool configuration.
Bassett
worked closely with the LSI Logic to place pre-facilitation
material orders for long-lead valves and other materials to meet the
aggressive tool delivery dates set by the individual tool managers. Each
tool required extensive preplanning and coordination to ensure that all
utilities were complete prior to the tool components arriving on-site.
The challenges of working on over a dozen tools simultaneously and
coordinating with as many tool owners on a daily basis was no easy task,
but through
Bassett's
Site Incident Prevention Program, we were able to
eliminate any impacts to Fab production. Prior to completion of the LSI
2500 WSW C9 Capacity Expansion Project,
Bassett’s project team was able to
turnover 99% of the O&M’s, as-builts, SL1 & SL2 Documentation to be
reviewed and accepted by the owner for a clean and crisp project closeout.
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Health Care
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Sensitivity is a top priority in health care
planning and construction.
Bassett takes proactive measures to
minimize the impact of construction on occupied buildings and the
surrounding community. Whether it's a clinic, hospital or congregate
care facility,
Bassett
provides creative solutions to improve quality
and speed of project delivery. With the precision of a surgeon,
Bassett experienced technicians closely track the industry's
ever-changing regulatory requirements and continuously hone their
skills, keeping abreast of the latest standards for medical equipment,
mechanical systems, room pressurization and utilities interface.
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Health Care |
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The Children's
Hospital/Exempla St. Joseph Hospital
MedPark Parking Garage
Denver, Colorado
Owner:
The Children's Hospital/Exempla
St. Joseph Hospital
Architect:
H + L Architecture
Carl Walker & Associates
Project
Duration:
11 months
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This six-story, 270,000-sq.-ft. parking structure was developed as part of
a joint venture project by The Children’s Hospital and Exempla Saint
Joseph’s Hospital. The cast-in-place structure provides close to 900
spaces to be shared equally among the employees of the two hospitals. Once
Dan Bassett
was assigned the responsibility for success of the Colorado
Region he and his project team worked diligently to accommodate the
requests of both owners and ensure equal access between the two hospitals.
Dan Bassett
and his project team worked closely with Carl Walker &
Associates, which specializes in parking design, to generate an innovative
traffic pattern in the garage that allows street entrances from each
hospital. Located on a hill, the garage required a split-level design with
one entrance on the first floor and the other on the second, making the
street elevations different. Two separate employee card access systems
also had to be installed. Stairways and elevator shafts were built on
opposite ends of the building with sheer curtain wall glass for added
security.
The design/assist project was just beginning when
Bassett
discovered mistakes in the DPR estimate, quickly post-tension concrete was
incorporated into the design to meet the project’s fast-track, eight-month
deadline set by the hospitals. 480 to 500 cubic yards were poured per day,
which is equivalent to about 50 trucks worth of concrete.
Dan Bassett
and his project team also
coordinated with Denver public utility companies to secure and relocate
electrical power, telephone and a 16-inch natural gas line that ran through
the middle of the lower levels of the parking structure for nearly 3 months.
Crews were also sensitive to building around two operating hospitals, taking
extra precautions not to disturb the patients and visitors during
construction, which also included landscaping around the structure and the
addition of street and pedestrian lights.
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Broadcasting |
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KPMG Consulting
Broadband Solutions Center
Englewood, Colorado
Owner:
KPMG Consulting / CarrAmerica
Architect:
RMW Architecture & Design
Project
Duration:
4.5 months
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With a huge contract riding on KPMG Consulting's move to its new Rocky
Mountain Broadband Solution Center early this year, they and
representative, developer CarrAmerica, turned to
Bassett to make it
happen. Approximately a month into construction KPMG Consulting discovered
it needed to push the original "go live" date for the project up by two
weeks in order to accommodate a billion-dollar contract with a major
client. On top of that, the space to be built out more than doubled, from
an original floor plan of 15,000 sq. ft. to a final count of almost 36,000
sq. ft.
No ordinary office space, the ultra high-end build-out will be used to
showcase KPMG Consulting's broadband internet solutions for large, Fortune
500 customers. The luxury quarters feature everything from the specially
crafted anigre wood doors and conference tables to cutting edge audio and
video systems. Designed by RMW, San Francisco, the project also included
such unique architectural finishes as MDF panels in feature presentation
areas that were custom fit and then sent out to receive an automotive
paint job in white, black or silver, snap-in graded metal ceilings, touch
panel black-out shades and projection screens, and accents of brushed
chrome, aluminum and stainless steel throughout.
When the owner informed
Bassett
that it needed to shave two weeks off the schedule, the project team called
an all-day meeting with "every foreman and project manager" from each of the
subs on the job to find a way to accomplish it. That meeting took place just
two months before the owner needed the "Temporary Certificate of Occupancy".
In addition to committing to keep the project rolling seven days a week, the
team identified areas where time savings could be made and pulled together
to make it happen.
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Mission Critical
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Web-hosting. Co-location. Telecom. Data
processing. Call Center.
Bassett's proven technical expertise
hyper-tracks the delivery of mission critical facilities. Every day
presents new opportunities for exploring alternative techniques to
improve design and construction in a 24x7 environment.
Bassett's
building specialists look at each project with a fresh approach to
provide the right team and services for the job. Offering customers a
single point of contact and up-front collaboration to shorten
schedules and control costs,
Bassett
takes the process to new heights with its program management,
construction management and design/build capabilities, ensuring that
facilities are ready to ramp up to full running capacity immediately
upon completion and continue operating without failure.
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Mission Critical
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AT&T
Data Center—Phase II
Redwood City, California
Owner:
AT&T Global Real Estate
Architect:
Carlson Architects PS
Project
Duration:
9 months
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Bassett
is currently building out 30,000 sq. ft. of vacant space located
in two stories into an Internet data center, as well as modifying and
expanding an existing central plant.
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Corporate Office
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Teletech Holdings,
Inc.
Core & Shell
Office Building
Englewood, Colorado
Owner:
Teletech Holdings, Inc.
Architect:
Gensler Architects
Project
Duration:
12 months |
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While Colorado Regional Manager for DPR Construction,
Dan Bassett
convinced TeleTech to choose them as contractor to construct their new
global corporate headquarters building near the Denver Tech Center. Dan
brought the project budget in line from previous attempts with other
contractors by suggesting value added options which significantly reduced
costs. Dan quickly assembled a highly qualified team of professionals to
complete the initial core within the 9 months schedule constraint, and
personally negotiated the rigid contract and oversaw all aspects of the
subcontracts and schedule.
TeleTech is the leading provider of integrated, e-commerce-enabled
customer management (eCRM) solutions for global organizations. Six months
into the project, the Colorado political climate coupled with changing
corporate plans reduced construction of the planned headquarters facility
to a 131,000-sq.-ft. 4-story core-and-shell office for resale in the
Denver market.
The building is situated on 12 acres in a park-like setting with mountain
views. The exterior is comprised of green-colored floor-to-ceiling e-glass
windows with metal panels over a precast skin. The lobby area showcases a
terrazzo mosaic floor with two elliptical aluminum columns.
Bassett
worked
hand-in-hand with Teletech to reduce construction costs through aggressive
value engineering totaling over $600,000.
Bassett's
challenges included a very aggressive schedule and changes in
owner's end use of facility. |
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