Technical Management
The TWT Group provides Technical Management, Owner's Representation, and Strategic Supervision through all project phases, from concept development to product launch and beyond. We take an all-inclusive view of our client's project to understand the established expectations of all stakeholders and identify specific risks to budget, performance, schedule, and safety.
Specifically, we provide:
- Global Project Strategy
- Procurement Strategy
- Prototype Strategy
- Installation Strategy
- Scheduling & Timing Strategy
- Engineering Solutions to Facilitate Creative Intent
- Project Team Supervision
- Vendor Technical Supervision
- Physical Feasibility Studies
- Facility/Site Acceptance Testing
- Technical Risk Mitigation
- Code Compliance
- Expertise Outsourcing
Case Studies
The Chicago Museum of Science and Industry, “Science Storms”
In March 2010, the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry opened the single largest interactive exhibit in the museum’s history. Science Storms allows museum patrons to access chemistry and physics through dramatic natural phenomena.
The TWT Group was involved during conceptual design and feasibility assessments and was instrumental in developing the experiment lists and designing the 62 exhibits. The TWT Group developed facility interface documents, wrote all the exhibit RFP technical documents, supported the detailed design and construction phases and provided installation supervision through opening day of the Science Storms exhibits.
- Concept and Schematic Phases
- Exhibit lists
- Preliminary designs
- Capacity Studies
- Safety Assessments
- Mock ups, Prototypes
- Computer Models and Animations
- Detailed Design and Construction Phases
- Trade Studies
- Analyses
- Vendor Recommendations
- Facility Impact Report
- Scopes of Work, Deliverables Matrices, and Specifications
- Deliverable Evaluations and Design Reviews
- Monitor Performance, Schedule, and Costs
- Installation Supervision
- Facility Interface and Installation, Commissioning
- Site Acceptance Testing
Prototype Construction Vehicle
A large home builder approached the TWT Group to design and develop a prototype construction vehicle to enable his next generation home fabrication strategy. From a clean sheet of paper, the TWT Group created the basic design of the “house mover” dual vehicle system along with a number of strategies and tools for integrating the vehicle with home fabrication, transportation, and installation. At least eight patents are pending for this innovative system.
In addition to providing key design and engineering services, the TWT Group was asked to become the owner’s representative and technical supervisor during the detailed design and construction phases. As owner’s representative, the TWT Group provided technical management and direction for the vendor’s engineering group, and verified that vendor’s sub-systems and contractor’s deliverables complied with technical requirements, contract budget, and schedule milestones.
Fabrication and assembly of the two vehicles has been completed. Testing and tuning of the vehicles will continue when the housing market is more favorable.
- Concept and Schematic Phases
- Conceptual Designs
- Preliminary Designs
- Hydraulics
- Systems Performance
- Vehicle Specifications
- House Foundation and Structural Requirements
- Vehicle Control Systems Design, Modeling and Verification
- Operator Safety Assessments
- Vehicle Mock ups and Prototypes
- Computer Models and Animations
- Vendor Recommendations
- Detailed Design and Construction Phases
- Owner’s Representation
- Trade Studies
- Controls Systems
- Analyses
- Factory-Construction Interface
- Scopes of Work
- Deliverables Matrices and Specifications
- Evaluated Deliverables and Conducted Design Reviews
- Monitored Performance, Schedule, and Cost
