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These bathrooms are for the U of M Munger Graduate Residence. We're building 730 bathrooms.
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The owners were 100% behind us on the prefabrication of these modular bathrooms. We've extended
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it even further with the project with modular pipe racks, portions of the room are modular.
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So they're seeing the benefit in not only cost and schedule but also safety-wise.
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We've significantly cut down on the amount of waste. Not only is it a LEED project where
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everything is sorted in terms of waste but we've cut down on waste in terms of even the
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drywall we have the manufacturer cut it to our specific length. Even the plumbing is
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going already cut to size. Areas on each floor haven't even been constructed
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yet the bathrooms themselves are already built, already completed, ready to be installed.
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So all that time is saved. So things are happening almost simultaneously.
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Not having to deliver all this material makes it much easier on the trade contractors. They
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can focus much more on quality of the product. With less workers on site in these small confined
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areas things don't get damaged as easily. Things go in faster. Things go in better.
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At the modular bathroom warehouse, it's all consolidated into one area.
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With modular construction we simulate not just how all the internal components work
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for a module but how these packages are safely and efficiently delivered to the jobsite.
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Once the modular units are brought to site we actually simulate how they're brough off
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the truck and lifted up the leave-outs and what the actual process is to get these into
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the facility. So we take these construction assemplies and
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look at the pinch points and what the realities are for workers to unload and deliver and
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even how we might custom make crates to make sure they're safely placed at each location.
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The quality of these bathrooms being done in modular fashion actually has better quality.
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There's better quality control, there's better tolerances. No one would really know that,
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you can't see it, it's not visually apparent. We know building them how much better they
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are just because the controlled environment that they were built it in. But the student
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moving in would never know the difference.