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How do self-performing GCs improve schedule reliability?
Self-performing GCs ensure greater schedule reliability, control and flexibility by managing key scopes internally.
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How do self-performing GCs improve schedule reliability?
Chris Bell, DPR self-perform work lead, explains how self-performing GCs ensure greater schedule reliability, control and flexibility by managing key scopes.
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How do self-performing GCs improve schedule reliability?
Chris: It does seem sort of minor, but whenever you've got to call a separate firm to provide the folks to be able to finish those last little bits, you're beholden to their schedule, their availability, their priorities. When it's a self-performing GC, it's our priorities, it's what we need, it's what's best for the client. And that's what you get with a self-performing GC.
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Posted on March 28, 2025
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