Setting New Performance and Safety Standards for Large Industrial Projects
Boeing 777X Composite Wing Center (Building 40-58)
Hoffman’s innovations meet an aggressive schedule and save over $4M in costs as the team works five million hours without a Lost Time Accident.
Hoffman broke ground on this massive 1.6 million-square-foot facility in October 2014 and finished the project just 18 months later. The building encompasses 200,000 SF of high bay manufacturing space utilizing a 350’ clear span structure and 150,000 SF of flanking support and office spaces. The plant houses sophisticated robotics tools, complex mechanical and specialty piping systems, and three 120-foot long autoclaves, the pressure vessels used to cure the carbon composite wings of the 777X aircraft. Hoffman self-performed all concrete work and much of the mechanical scope.
Challenge
Meet an aggressive schedule to bring a major manufacturing facility on line.
Solution
Hoffman self-performed all concrete work and much of the mechanical scope. We also developed several innovations on the project, including a “Traversing Scaffold System” which allowed the high bay work to be performed concurrently with work on the factory floor.
