🛠️ HVAC Replacement – RTU Upgrade at Secure Facility

📍 Client: Brinks Inc.

👤 Role: Project Manager

📅 Timeline: 3 months

💰 Budget: $75,000

👥 Team Size: 10

🧭 Methodology: Waterfall

🎯 Objective

Replace an aging rooftop unit (RTU) HVAC system at a secure Brinks facility, ensuring minimal disruption, strict vendor compliance, and coordinated logistics for crane work and equipment delivery.

⚠️ Challenges

  • Coordinating delivery and operation of a crane at a high-security site

  • Vendor clearance delays due to required licenses, insurance (COI), and background checks

  • Scope and quote approvals needed to be verified and aligned with actual site conditions

  • Logistical hurdles around city permissions and equipment arrival timing

🔧 Actions Taken

  • Verified vendor credentials and ensured all required documents (license, COI, clearance) were submitted prior to site access

  • Conducted an on-site scope verification visit to align scope and cost before work began

  • Acted as liaison between client, vendor, and city to coordinate crane work and delivery approvals

  • Proactively tracked material procurement to ensure no delays in installation

✅ Results

  • Project completed on time, within scope, and under the $75,000 budget

  • No change orders or additional costs

  • Smooth execution with full compliance at a high-security facility

📌 Tags

#FacilitiesManagement #HVACProject #ConstructionPM #Logistics #VendorManagement #Waterfall

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