Keeping Our Team Aligned
Daily huddles help the Children’s Mercy garage team coordinate crews and trade partners, prevent bottlenecks and keep work moving.
On a tight urban jobsite, it takes more than skilled crews and a solid schedule to keep the work moving.
It takes consistent communication. A lot of it.
At the Children’s Mercy employee parking garage, our project team begins each day with an 8 a.m. huddle. This is our opportunity to get the core team on the same page before we head into the field. The group outlines the day’s activities and discusses any safety, quality or schedule issues we need to address.
Thirty minutes later, the conversation continues with a broader team that includes our self-perform crew leadership along with foremen from our trade partners. This is where the day’s game plan really comes together. We talk through safety, quality, constraints and logistics, then craft leadership drives the conversation around the day’s planned activities and what may need to change to enhance everyone’s daily productivity and project success.
These conversations matter. With seven levels of cast-in-place concrete going up on a compact footprint and no tower cranes on site, there’s no room for chaos. Every square foot of work area and every minute of equipment time is precious.
If we aren’t planning or communicating effectively, one crew can unintentionally create a bottleneck for another, grinding production to a halt and throwing the next day’s planned concrete pour off schedule.
Building a 1,245-stall garage right next to an active hospital campus takes constant vigilance. By taking time every morning to align our entire project team, we clear roadblocks before they become delays—keeping our crews safe, productive and focused on delivering an outstanding asset that serves the needs of hospital staff members.
Stay tuned for future updates as we look at the vertical progress of our elevated deck pours and the topping out of the masonry elevator shaft.
