Ballard’s underwater and marine engineering and technical staff work to support our engineering partners and clients to bring the best solutions. Our team’s Early Contractor Involvement (ECI) approach is particularly beneficial to facilitating the transition from pre-construction to the construction phase. Ballard promotes the inclusion of key construction phase personnel throughout the design development process to not only enhance the integration of construction means, methods, and schedule into the project design, but to also ensure continuity of the team’s collaborative efforts promoting a full buy-in from the construction team with respect to the work plans developed during pre-construction. Ballard has decades of experience working in the environment of collaboration, trust, and partnership with design teams, owners, and appropriate regulatory agencies resulting in an efficient approach that can save money through limited change orders while producing successful projects.
