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Milestones Building & Design
Provides
Fabric Building Solution for Boeing
Boeing is the
world's leading aerospace company and
the largest manufacturer of commercial jetliners and
military aircraft combined. In terms of sales, Boeing is
the largest U.S. exporter. The company, with a 70-year
heritage of leadership in commercial aviation, has
nearly 12,000 commercial jetliners in service worldwide,
which is roughly 75 percent of the world fleet. In the
fall of 2005, Boeing needed to install a new piece of
equipment inside one of their production buildings. Like
many companies, Boeing has a need to control air flow
and air quality since dust is a critical factor when
working with composite material.
Working with Milestones Building & Design, Boeing
developed an excellent solution, using a 72' wide x 72'
long (21.9m x 21.9m) fabric structure.
"We chose a fabric covered building
because of the clearspan space that is available while
optimizing the overall floor space," says
Jon Larscheid, P.E., Major Projects & Construction
Management, Boeing. The timelines for this project were
very tight. Once the fabric building was ordered, it was
delivered in 43 days and installed during the one week
shutdown over Christmas holidays, to eliminate any lost
work hours in production. "The
construction was very smooth, methodical and well
constructed in a very short time period,"
says Larscheid. "The fabric building
performed extremely well for its intended
function."
The timelines that had to
be met were very strict and required that the fabric
structure to be installed in the week-long shutdown that
takes place over Christmas to eliminate any lost
manufacturing time.
"The construction was
very smooth, methodical and well-constructed in a short
period of time," said Jon Larscheid P.E.,
Major Projects & Construction Management. The
fabric building went up in a week and had to be taken
down later over a single weekend in June. The
install crews were required to use machinery and tools
that would not contaminate the work space and had to
work long hours in order to meet Boeing's timelines.
"They went well out of their way to
insure our aggressive schedule was maintained.
They were very professional and worked beyond
"normal"
work hours to
insure the install and removal was complete and to our satisfaction," says Larscheid. The
building performed flawlessly and Boeing is sure that it
will utilize fabric covered buildings in the future.
"The fabric building structure portion
turned out to be the least of our worries in a very
tight, schedule-driven project. We wish we could
rely on all of our products and vendors to work this
well." says Larscheid. This
sentiment echoes the voice of all of our customers, and
shows why fabric covered buildings continue to be an
industry leader.
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The
overall process from ordering to removal of the building
was extremely timely. The Milestones team was very
thorough and professional.
Jon Larscheid, P.E., Major Projects & Construction
Management, Boeing
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