Many small project teams look at large colocation room setups and think, “Colocation isn’t for us.” We beg to differ. Although small project teams may not use the same approach and setup, there is still an opportunity for colocation. Tocci recently used colocation on Chelsea Place, a 60,000 SF modular project. Jeremy Garczynski, Assistant Project Manager, and Kirsten Soderlund, VDC Modeler, boiled their success stories and lessons learned in these strategies:
DON’T force large scale,…
Although there are no absolutes in colocation management, Tocci Project Director Jennifer Heikkinen shares a general list of colocation “dos” and “don’ts.”
DO Have an IT planning session to make sure everyone can access each firm’s respective home networks, model sharing platform, file sharing platform. A lot of troubleshooting is needed based on various firms’ set-ups so it is best to have the IT guys all talk IT so the project team can focus on…
If so many industries are using colocation, there must be a benefit. Although it’s difficult to calculate the true ROI of colocation, we are starting to come across metrics as we develop our own.
RESEARCH
A Harvard Medical School study analyzed the impact that colocation has on the quality of biomedical science research. The study used the number of times a paper is externally cited as a measure of quality. Findings:
- Two heads are…
Project Manager Kristen Tomlinson’s passion for quality construction is equal to her obsession with all things equine. On both topics, her guidelines for success have a lot in common. Here she describes the parallels in four buckets–plan, do, check, and act:
01 Plan
Recognize your responsibilities and be accountable for them. Communicate to others what you expect of them.
Define potential risks and assess them with your team’s strengths and weaknesses in mind. Gauge the…
On May 2nd Tocci Building Companies was privileged to host the first Young Professionals event in conjunction with the North Suburban Chamber of Commerce and Sandler Training. The event was intended to link and educate rising leaders who live or work in the north suburban area from Lexington to Stoneham and North Reading to Concord.
With the help of Jason Hartz from Sandler Training, this first event focused on the wants and needs…
