Renaissance 200

Ridgeland, Mississippi

While self-performing the cast-in-place structural concrete frame for the core, shell and parking structure, abnormally rainy weather set the project behind schedule. To recover the lost time and begin vertical construction (a key component on the project’s critical path), we used 2 primary tactics. One, we started constructing the elevated floors before the building’s main floor was poured. The first elevated deck, which is 24 feet in the air, was poured off shoring set on engineered mud plates. Two, we changed our initial pour schedule from 2 pours to 3 pours per floor. This allowed faster cycle time, allowed us to recover 4 days per floor, and reduced overall duration of structural construction. Self performing the concrete structure gave us the ability to optimize our resources and crew sizes. By carefully executing our plan we recovered more than 6 weeks of weather related delays and brought the project back on schedule.