Reducing Labor, Costs, and Delays Through Prefabrication

Tapping into offsite construction opportunities throughout your project can increase efficiency to help save resources, time, and money. Offsite construction helps your team move through the process early in your development cycle, so you can take full advantage of the benefits it has to offer.

Offsite construction creates efficiencies to help save resources, time, money. Start by looking for any opportunities for offsite application and condensing repeatable design elements at the planning phase. If your delivery schedule is tight, offsite can help you condense timeframes. Consider the complexity of the building site; panelizing portions of the project offsite can reduce unnecessary delivery trucks, materials, and workers at the site. The fixed parameters of the building require assessment to determine how offsite can be accommodated. When assessing the skilled labor availability, moving to offsite can also reduce labor resourcing difficulties. Add in the complete management of the weather from day one, and offsite is nearly irresistible for applicable assemblies.

Then look for opportunities to utilize building products that consolidate construction processes to gain even more time, labor, and cost advantages. This is where DensElement® Barrier System’s integrated sheathing and WRB-AB consolidation comes in.

DensElement Barrier System saves prefabricators time and labor by eliminating a step in the application process. By filling microscopic voids in the glass mat and gypsum core via AquaKor™ Technology, a hydrophobic, monolithic surface is created that blocks bulk water while retaining vapor permeability, eliminating the need for a separate WRB-AB. Seal penetrations and rough openings in the factory before heading back onsite, then finish the seams and the job is done. With so much less surface space to review for quality control, you’ll save even more time.