Dusty Robotics

Deacon Construction, LLC delivered an $18M healthcare project in Sacramento 6 weeks early, with $2.5M returned to the owner and zero safety incidents.

The reason starts with a sequencing decision most contractors wouldn't have made.

With Dusty printing multi-trade layout from the coordinated model at the start of the job, Deacon provided their trade partners with an accurate, trustworthy source of truth so that they could install work confidently before framing went in. That gave ACCO Engineered Systems, the HVAC trade, the chance to go in first — working from an open floor on lifts instead of navigating a maze of framed exam rooms.

"Without framing in the way, it essentially turns the space into an ice rink for us," said Michael Gribble, ACCO Project Manager. "With a big open floor, our team moved around on lifts more than twice as fast." They weren't just moving twice as fast, they were installing work twice as fast. The team generated $1.5M in savings in the HVAC scope alone. The rest followed from the same principle: when the layout is trustworthy, every trade moves faster.

"ACCO doubled its production from a typical TI project. A good portion of that was because Dusty allowed the HVAC to get in there before the walls were installed." — Chris Helbock, Operations Manager, Deacon Construction.

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