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Purchasing Cooperatives – A Better Contract Method for Public Entities
According to state law, public entities including schools, hospitals, and municipalities must go out for bid in order to purchase real and personal property whose values exceed $25,000. The bidding process is not only expensive to implement, it takes a considerable amount of time. The answer for many public entities is purchasing cooperatives. Read more…
MEADS Modular Building Set to Launch at White Sands Missile Range
Ramtech has now completed work on a new 4,320 square foot modular building located at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The new prefabricated building will provide for office and engineering space to support the final system integration and flight test activities for the Multinational MEADS Air Defense Program. Performed as a design-build construction project for El Paso-based CF Jordan Construction Read more…
Differentiation: A Key to Design-Build Construction Success
With the significant decline in commercial construction since 2008, large commercial contractors that typically pursue projects over $25 million are now pursuing $1 million projects. In order for mid-sized contractors to compete, they must have excellent experience on design-build contracts and be able to show the owner that they can provide an excellent product quicker, and for less money than the large contractors. Smaller firms must differentiate their experience, their approach to the design-build process, and their teaming members. One significant key that can be highlighted is for the design-build contractor to sell the scopes of work they self perform. Read more…
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Modular Buildings Aid FEMA in Disaster Relief Efforts
From the flooding of the Mississippi River to the tornadoes that have spawned throughout the country, the rash of weather-related natural disasters has placed enormous stress on local communities and stretched the resources of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The destruction of homes, schools, medical facilities, commercial structures and government buildings have resulted in an unprecedented need for temporary facilities while the plans for rebuilding the devastated areas take shape. One example is the modular buildings that have been tasked for temporary fire stations and classrooms by the US Army Corps of Engineer’s Critical Public Facilities Team as they attempt to restore public services in tornado ravaged Joplin, Missouri. Read more…
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Modular Construction: Its Role in Expanding Our Military Bases
Just how important has modular construction been to the Department of Defense’s plan toexpand their military bases? Well, if you examine the work that just one modular company has done at just one military base, you may be astounded. When Ramtech Building Systems was first asked to participate in the Army’s Modularity Realignment Program, Gary White, Vice President of Sales, knew that this would be Read more…
Fort Bliss Information Flows From New Ramtech Modular Building
The Directorate of Information Management (DOIM) at Fort Bliss, TX recently began their final preparations prior to occupancy on the third in a series of permanent modular buildings developed and built by design-build construction firm Ramtech Building Systems of Mansfield, Texas. Located on the main cantonment of the sprawling Fort Bliss military base in El Paso, the new 15,000 square foot building addition replaces the original base Data Center and Server Rooms built in the 1960’s. Read more…
Fort Bliss Military Police Take Control of the Latest Modular Building from Ramtech
The U.S. Army recently occupied the second of a series of permanent modular buildings developed and built by design-build construction firm Ramtech Building Systems of Mansfield, Texas. Located on the main cantonment of the sprawling Fort Bliss military base in El Paso, Texas, the two-story 15,207 square foot Unit Operations Facility (UOF) Battalion Headquarters building is one of three prefabricated buildings that Ramtech will provide under Read more…
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Fort Bliss Combat Aviation Brigade Occupies First of Three Modular Buildings from Ramtech
The U.S. Army has recently occupied the first of a series of permanent modular buildings developed and built by design-build construction firm Ramtech Building Systems of Mansfield, Texas. Located in the Biggs Army Airfield section of the sprawling Fort Bliss military base, the two-story 99,050 square foot Combat Aviation Brigade (CAB) building is one of three prefabricated buildings that Ramtech will provide under the company’s Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Read more…
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Hensel Phelps Uses Ramtech’s Accelerated Building System to Complete C.O.F. Facilities at Fort Bliss
Construction on the third and final phase of the Army’s new Company Operation Facilities at Ft. Bliss, Texas was completed in December 2010. Ramtech was the strategic subcontractor to Hensel Phelps responsible for structural design, manufacturing, and installation of eighteen 18,000 sf two-story buildings, and six 8,000 sf one-story buildings. Ramtech’s scope of work totaled 372,000 sf with their subcontracts for the three task orders totaling $32 million. Read more…
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