Save Time Reduce Risks
Buildings are assets. As return on investment becomes ever more crucial in building design and construction, the production cycle comes under increasing scrutiny as costs are wrung out of the construction process. And here, the question arises: Can some uncontrollable costs be made controllable?
Cost overruns due to inclement weather form one category of risk contractors and subcontractors must manage. Paperless gypsum panel products have fiberglass facings which do not wick moisture, which helps to prevent weather related delays during the construction cycle. Further, they have proven instrumental in resequencing some drywall installation processes, offering significant time savings in some cases, since exterior trades and interior trades can work simultaneously. Often, the time saved cascades downstream with a cumulative effect—saving time, money and mitigating risk.
Costly remediation due to mold caused by moisture exposure forms a second category of risk. Whether the exposure to ambient moisture is during the construction process or due to accidental wetting from a water leak for example, paperless gypsum panels have fiberglass facings instead of paper that eliminate a potential food source for mold. Furthermore, this innovative design has been proven through 20 years of industry wide preference for Dens® Brand exterior sheathing.
But many other risks arise, even during a normal construction cycle – seemingly countless delays, unobtrusive in themselves, but adding up to the potential for uncontrollable cost and potential risk of liability. The high moisture tolerance of paperless products gives the general contractor much greater latitude in scheduling, product storage, labor management and other flexibilities in all kinds of environments.
Contractors have discovered that this newfound flexibility provides the potential for “time banking,” or an operational hedge against delays that may occur elsewhere in completely unrelated areas of the construction cycle.
