Colorado Springs, Colorado
Program Management, Budget and Schedule Controls, Equipment Planning, Construction Management / Owner’s Rep., Transition Management
Agilent Technologies occupies three buildings on its large campus in Colorado Springs. The CPI Group was retained as the overall program management firm for the Colorado Springs Upgrade Program (CSUP) which began in August 2007. Our team includes the main program manager, project controls manager, construction manager, and personnel for communications, document controls, and equipment planning. Seemingly simple – consolidate and upgrade all site operations from three building into one – the actual program scope is extremely varied due to the nature of Agilent’s operations:
Loveland, Colorado Campus
Program Management, Owner’s Representative, Budget & Schedule Control
Agilent Technologies occupied four large buildings on their Loveland campus in northern Colorado. As part of an ongoing improvement effort across their sites, Agilent asked The CPI Group to serve as the project manager in an Owner’s Rep role during the remodel of Building D. This facility previously served as a printed circuit board assembly plant and the design called for a complete interior renovation into Class A office and conferencing space. There were several unique challenges presented during the project:
Boulder & Westminster, Colorado
Program Management, Cost Controls, Cost Segregation, Construction Management, Startup & Commissioning
In 2004, Ball Aerospace and Technology Corporation (BATC) undertook its largest facilities expansion in over twenty years. The CPI Group was hired as part of the BATC Capacity Expansion Program (BCEP) and construction management team to oversee six projects across two sites, Boulder and Westminster.
There were four separate design teams involved – one for each piece of large equipment and one for each site – that had to be managed as an overall program.
San Antonio, Texas
Construction Management, General Contracting
Phillips Semiconductors needed to expand their manufacturing capacity as well as upgrade their facilities systems for new, larger 200mm wafer manufacturing equipment. The CPI Group served as the CM/GC on the project providing construction oversight, quality assurance, cost control and scheduling. This fast-track project included a number of complex industrial systems:
Fort Collins, Colorado
Design Management, Construction Management
Normal operation of a wafer fab is complicated – ultra-clean environments, exotic utility systems, and demanding production schedules. Now imagine shuffling the entire cleanroom layout to allow for a pilot production line installation. Furthermore, the new manufacturing equipment for the pilot line was larger and consumed more utilities requiring the associated building systems to be upgraded as well. This is exactly the task set to The CPI Group for the 8” CMOS-7 Pilot Line project.