PerryWester is growing its self-perform heavy foundations and concrete crews. More of the work that sets the schedule on our power, industrial and building projects will now be done by our own carpenters, ironworkers, finishers, operators and laborers, under our own foremen.
Why foundations
On critical facilities, the work underground decides when everything else can start. Equipment foundations, turbine and generator pedestals, mat foundations and the structure above them decide when machines can be set and when a building is dried in. When that work slips, every trade and every delivery behind it slips too.
Our founder came up through heavy construction, including power station foundations and pedestals, and that experience shapes how we plan this work. Mass concrete needs a thermal control plan. Anchor bolts need templates and survey checks before, during and after the pour. Pedestals need to be finished before the equipment truck arrives, not after.
Self-performing that work gives our project teams direct control over the activities that matter most. Our superintendents can add a second pour shift when a machine ships early, or resequence a pour around a late rebar delivery the same afternoon, because the people making the call and the people doing the work answer to the same team.
What the expansion includes
- Additional concrete crews for equipment foundations, pedestals, mats, cast-in-place walls and suspended slabs.
- Embed and anchor bolt crews working from templates and survey control.
- More forming, shoring and finishing equipment owned and maintained in house.
- Expanded field leadership, with foremen and general foremen developed from within our own craft ranks.
- Added training in mass concrete, rigging and signaling, fall protection and quality control for placement and finishing.
When our own crews pour the pedestals, we stop managing someone else’s schedule and start building our own.
Self-perform operations leader, PerryWester
What it means for trade partners and owners
Self-perform does not replace our trade partners. Mechanical, electrical, envelope and finishes work will continue to be bid to qualified specialty contractors, and our Rising Trade Partners program continues to grow the firms we work beside. The change is focused on the foundation and structural scopes where direct control pays off most.
For owners, the result is simple: one accountable team for the work that sets the pace of the job, and a facility that is ready for operations on Day One.
