We have a solid track record in the institutional, commercial, industrial and residential sectors
We have a tradition of delivering challenging projects on time and on budget
We have a passion for good construction and great buildings

Institutional
  • Schools
  • Churches
  • Hospitals

Commercial
  • Retail facilities
  • Office buildings
  • Hotels

Industrial
  • Warehouses
  • Factories
Residential
  • Subsidized housing
  • Seniors’ residences
  • Apartment buildings, condominiums and houses

Restoration/Renovation
  • Historical buildings
Wedgewood Photo Gallery


RISK MANAGEMENT

Our proprietary TEQnik Method protects the owner's assets and interests
Our approach to quality management mitigates risk
We know that Teamwork+ Planning+ Controls= Successfull projects

Planning

The planning stage is crucial to the success of any construction management project. Daoust Construction participates in pre-design or design conferences and partnering or value management workshops. This ensures commitment from all parties, solidifies the understanding of project goals and builds team spirit.

We establish detailed sequencing of activities and meet the trade contractors to review their planning strategies to ensure that they are compatible with the project deliverables. We have extensive experience planning and implementing major fast-tracked and sequentially tendered projects.

Our Work Breakdown Structure and Responsibility/Accountability Model are invaluable tools for communicating roles and responsibilities.

We identify bid packages and determine the contracting strategy in conjunction with the design team and the owner. This enables us to plan a design schedule, link it to construction work packages and determine the need for pre-purchase items.

Quality Control

Daoust Construction prepares, manages and controls the quality of the project from design and pre-construction to construction and occupancy.


Pre-construction
•Perform design reviews for constructability and "common sense engineering," and for quality and completeness of design and construction
•Help designers incorporate quality standards and requirements within the design bid documents
•Pre-qualify trade contractors
•Ensure trade proposal conformity with tender documents
•Encourage partnering
•Pre-order long-lead items
•Develop a project-specific quality management plan

Construction
•Review construction documents to ensure that quality is maintained by trade contractor scopes, drawing details and instructions, shop drawings, submissions and samples; obtain manufacturers’ specifications, tolerances and installation procedures; and order long-lead items
•Mock up repetitive and difficult work to debug and establish quality levels
•Mock up an entire typical repetitive room
•Verify material conformance upon receipt and before installation
•Provide proper storage and staging of materials
•Prefabricate in climate-controlled environments when possible
•Monitor quality of production daily by using inspection checklists
•Perform pre-start and pre-completion interim inspections and sign-offs
•Promptly reject non-conforming work by issue of notices to remedy immediately
•Conduct co-ordination and quality meetings to properly sequence work
•Maintain a safe, clean and controlled workplace
•Perform commissioning, testing and certification
•Prepare internal punch lists and correct as necessary prior to performing deficiency inspections
•Promptly correct deficiencies prior to turnover and occupancy
•Reward and compliment work well done

Our front-end documents set out in detail the requirements for close-out, commissioning and project turnover procedures. Trade contractors are required to inspect their own work prior to our inspection. Deficiency lists prepared by them are reviewed by us. Project consultants and designers conduct inspections of the work. We combine all inspection reports to ensure that no findings slip through the cracks. To motivate prompt corrections of all deficiencies, we withhold sufficient contract funds from the trade contractors. This also ensures that inspections, manuals, as-builts and maintenance manuals are delivered on time.

Risk Management Program

Today's construction projects are extremely complex, with tight timelines and budgets. This creates risk for all the parties involved in the project. The good news is that risk can be successfully managed. It just takes the right approach.

Our approach to quality management is designed to mitigate risk. All parties involved in a project have the same exposure to risk from the onset. If any party fails to participate in the process, the project will not achieve its time, cost or quality objectives.

We implement a risk management program from the beginning of the project. We also believe disputes can be avoided through proper planning and project strategy during pre-construction and by involving the entire project team.

In our experience, the greatest challenges to the successful completion of the work are the timely release of accurate and complete design information; the timely presentation and approval of submissions; the management of changes to the work; and the maintenance of a realistic schedule that reflects the actual status of the project.

The key to risk management is to establish communication between all parties through partnering. This ensures that everybody has a clear understanding of the obligations and expectations. Partnering establishes a complete and realistic plan for the execution of the design, procurement, construction and commissioning phases. It also establishes the systems necessary to communicate all relevant technical and administrative information and the systems necessary to recognize and adjust for deviations in the plan.