General Motors invested $200M to add a Stamping Plant to the Arlington location, already considered one of the most critical facilities in the world, and where they make the award-winning Chevrolet Tahoe and Suburban, GMC Yukon and Cadillac Escalade. To achieve the aggressive completion date, a structural steel mill order for the building steel needed to be placed within 3½ weeks and building design needed to be completed within 6 weeks. Typically, the procurement and design process would take more than twice that amount of time.
To ensure success, GM’s standard design team procurement process was circumvented and the only team capable of the schedule – Degenkolb – had the resources in place and started design immediately. When the General Contractor was selected several weeks later, the collaboration was seamless. To keep construction moving, Degenkolb completed shop drawing review in 1 day – where industry average is 10-15 days. These efforts paid off as GM launched the stamping plant on-time and now runs the plant 24-hours per day to keep up with demand.
