Collaborative Project Delivery
Hoffman’s project approach is founded on open communication, accountability and teamwork. Our decades of experience with negotiated CM/GC projects has naturally evolved into other collaborative delivery methods such as design-build, IPD, progressive design-build, heavy-civil GC/CM, and more. Our project teams are organized to provide clear lines of communication and distinct areas of responsibility.
We use the best of the old and new to facilitate communication across the entire project team. Our office and job sites are equipped with the latest high-tech tools; at the same time, we never forget that the most effective communication often occurs face to face, sketching ideas with pencil and paper. We encourage this kind of creative interaction, with:
- Team-wide commitment to the best interests of the project. We emphasize open, direct, and honest communication among all participants. Problems are resolved as a team, with our client’s best interests driving the decision-making.
- Early involvement of key participants. We gather input and perspective from the field to enhance Lean opportunities, safety, quality, and schedule buy-in. Advanced planning techniques such as Pull Planning Scheduling, and 4D and 5D modeling yield positive results during execution.
- Early goal definition. Project goals are developed early, agreed upon, and respected by all participants. Insight from each participant is valued in a culture that promotes and drives innovation and outstanding performance.
Robust Preconstruction
Hoffman’s preconstruction services are rooted in a Builders First mindset. We don’t just manage subcontracts, we apply the same builder’s perspective in preconstruction that we bring to the jobsite. Our team combines advanced modeling tools with decades of hands-on construction experience to optimize every aspect of a project: cost, schedule, quality, safety, and site logistics.
We pride ourselves on identifying challenges early and developing practical solutions. Sometimes it’s finding the fastest way to move from point A to point B. Other times it’s inventing a way to build something that’s never been done before. That builder’s mentality ensures preconstruction is not just a planning exercise, but a foundation for delivering real, constructible result
Our preconstruction approach gets us involved very early in the project, where we can have the greatest impact on the outcome. We ask questions, push for alternatives, and work with full teams to arrive at the best design and execution. Our dedicated preconstruction team delivers:
- Continuous and milestone estimating. Real-time cost data keeps design moving forward and avoids the delays and rework that come with drawn-out value engineering.
- Comprehensive constructability reviews. We go beyond drawing checks to identify risks and opportunities, such as prefabrication, modularization, and logistics, so decisions are made with a full picture of impacts.
- Early involvement of trade partners. Bringing trusted subcontractors into design conversations validates cost and schedule assumptions early and surfaces field-tested solutions.
- Comprehensive quality reviews. Lessons learned across diverse market sectors guide the selection of products and details, resulting in durable, reliable facilities.
- Site logistics planning. Early planning of site access, material flow, and sequencing ensures safety, efficiency, and minimal disruption to ongoing operations.
- Schedule certainty. A collaborative schedule process aligns design, trade, and construction teams to give confidence in meeting milestones.
Virtual Design and Construction
Hoffman has led the industry in integrating Virtual Design and Construction (VDC) technology into our projects. We bring our clients not only the latest technology, but also a skilled team of construction professionals with the experience and know-how to use it in innovative ways that increase quality and efficiency.
Our BIM / VDC teams provide:
- Enhanced preconstruction collaboration among designers, subcontractors, owners, and Hoffman’s field team, including clash detection, constructability analysis and communication (BIM visibility)
- 3D laser scanning of existing conditions to provide the A/E team with precise as-built data
- Flexible 4D scheduling that enables us to test phasing scenarios, gather user input, and educate subcontractors about the order of activities
- Rigorous quality control that ties every field RFI and action item to the model, creating a database for tracking issues to completion
- Thorough commissioning, with equipment and other building components linked to the model, for future reference by users / building staff
- World-class project closeout and documentation of as-built conditions
Self-Perform
Hoffman’s deep catalog of in-house resources sets our company apart. When it’s in the best interest of our owners — to speed construction, tighten control over the work, improve safety or maximize early ROI — Hoffman can self-perform everything from structural concrete to I&C commissioning. With Hoffman, there are no levels of bureaucracy between decisions made by the project team and action in the field.
Estimating: Our in-house specialists are capable of mechanical, electrical, structural, and architectural estimating, and provide a high degree of certainty to inform project planning. Because we have divisions with hands-on experience in concrete, electrical, mechanical and commissioning work, our estimates are grounded in the real world and based on our professionals’ hands-on understanding of the work.
Structural Concrete: Our in-house structural concrete division, Hoffman Structures, Inc. (HSI), maximizes efficiency and reduces risk on challenging projects. We frequently self-perform concrete work, analyzing structural systems for cost efficiencies, structural integrity, seismic reliability, and schedule benefits. Hoffman’s structural resources and expertise improve quality and provide performance reliability, independent of prevailing labor market conditions. Our Critical Path scheduling gets buildings out of the ground faster, to provide earlier ROI for owners.
Structural Rebar:Our in-house steel division, Hoffman Steel Services (HSS), manages the supply and installation of reinforcing steel. With direct control of this scope, HSS streamlines procurement, reduces schedule risk, and ensures alignment with concrete operations. This integrated approach improves coordination, maintains quality, and provides cost and schedule certainty even in tight labor and material markets.
Survey: Hoffman’s in-house surveying division, Hoffman Layout & Modeling, has extensive experience in providing precise information in all phases of construction. Their services range from pre-design mapping and location of property boundaries, existing structures, and utilities, to continuous on-site quality assurance and verification, including utilities, excavation, structures, and sitework.
Framing & Drywall: Hoffman Specialty Contracting (HSC) was created to deliver the framing, drywall, and ceiling scopes on projects, allowing us to keep projects running smoothly through the exterior skin and interior finish milestones that often become “pinch points” in the schedule.
Mechanical Systems: Our in-house mechanical division, Hoffman Mechanical Corporation (HMC), has worked on numerous high-tech facilities. HMC’s value engineering suggestions have saved millions of dollars for Hoffman’s most demanding clients. We analyze mechanical systems for operating efficiencies, life-cycle value, and systems coordination.
Instrumentation and Controls: As Hoffman’s capabilities in the high-tech construction market have grown, we’ve diversified and cross-trained in-house mechanical and electrical specialists to support installation of highly sensitive equipment. This group knows advanced technology environmental controls, raised access floors, tool install, cleanroom protocols, and many other components of technology-intense projects.
Interested in Collaborating?
If you’d like to talk to us about a project, or anything else, we’d love to hear from you.
For new business inquiries, please contact:
Daniel Drinkward
Vice President
daniel-drinkward@hoffmancorp.com