Creating a building that satisfies a customer means addressing hundreds of issues. Certainly, doing everything you can to deliver the project on schedule is paramount. Assuring the highest quality construction is critical and listening carefully to each owner in order to establish what needs to be accomplished takes priority.
But, when we, at Channel, remember a project, it’s often some small detail that sticks out in our minds – one significant feature that made that job distinctive.
No doubt there will be something special about your building project too. So, we thought you might like to hear about a few details, which we think tell you more about Channel than anything else we might say.
Flagship Press: SQUISH. What happens to five acres of wet soil during the rainiest New England fall on record? That’s exactly what Channel had to establish when they were commissioned to build the Flagship Press facility. Working with geotechnical engineers and technicians, we extensively tested and monitored massive cuts and fills to assure that the 50 foot long printing presses, building and site were properly founded. We mixed the soil with other types of earth and studied just how concrete would lay on top of it. Everything had to be checked and double-checked before we even broke ground. The point was that we had to know exactly where we stood so we could know, for decades to come, where Flagship Press would stand.
