A-ware’s plant was recently extended
(photo: Jorritsma Bouw)
cess technology. It also involves another
specialty: interface management. After
all, it is only by aligning all interfaces
properly that you can build a building
like this in such a flexible way. Jorritsma
Bouw was in close contact with client
and suppliers, so freedom of choice for
as long as possible could be offered
while simultaneously realising all the
important milestones in good time. Use
was made of BIM and Systems Engineering.
In this way, miscommunication was
avoided and coherence between the
requirements programme, the expectations
and the execution was ensured.
In order to keep everything on the right
track, the project was divided into four
construction flows where sections such
as the milk tanker delivery area, pre-processing
area and cheese dairy, where the
assembly and commissioning of the process
installations take the longest, were
completed earlier than, for example, the
dispatch department, where hardly any
machines are needed.
Building without waste
A lean working method offers clients
many advantages as Jorritsma Bouw
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Jorritsma Bouw has put ifself at the service of process installations and corresponding
specifications during plant construction (photo: Jorritsma Bouw)
organises its work processes in such a
way that construction projects with as
little waste as possible can be realised.
This also means that the company and
its co-makers carefully coordinate all
construction activities and that planning
consultations take place on a
regular basis. By working according to
Lean, all components – process installation,
design, materialisation and construction
system – fell into place. The
project was even able to cope with the
substantially increasing delivery times
of building materials and any wintry,
unworkable days.
Safety first
At the height of the construction of the
new plant there were a lot of people on
the construction site at the same time.
This called for extensive safety measures,
also because it was business as
usual for the existing dairy plant. For
this reason, Jorritsma Bouw’s own onsite
safety expert kept in close contact
with the A-ware safety coordinator. In
addition, site consultations ensured
that the logistics of the existing Aware
plant were not hindered. A clever
tool in this respect was 'De Bouwpas',
which allowed subcontractors and
workers to register online in advance if
they wanted access to the construction
site. Moreover, because there was an
own entrance to the building site, the
supply of building materials and the in-
and outflow of dairy products did not
get in each other’s way.
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