intense moment where we knew we had a small window to get the delivery in,” Fulop said. “Thankfully, we were prescheduled and it was already en route, and we were able to have that delivery occur moments before they started ripping out the road in that area. We really threaded the needle there.” Another interesting part of installing the stairs was dealing with the floor opening. The as-built drawings suggested the opening was north of the sprinkler main in the space, but that turned out to be incorrect. Fortunately, Turner Construction conducted laser surveying upon award of the project and identified the discrepancy right away. “At that time, we were able to build a two-dimensional plan that basically had a grayscale to determine overall elevations of the infrastructure that existed in the space,” Fulop said. “We found that the sprinkler main, where it actually exists, was in the location of the floor opening. We were really fortunate we were able to establish that well in advance of actually going through the tender process because that allowed for our sprinkler consultant to update their drawings to reflect the jog in the main so it was able to avoid that floor opening.” Doing that work in advance meant avoiding a lot of problems down the line, according to Fulop. “We would have had a big issue that we needed to address with no time to address it.” In respect to the floor opening, Turner Construction used a wall saw instead of a floor saw, a decision that saved time and THE CONSTRUCTION SOURCE CANADA
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