Meeting Minutes - US Department of State

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I got a lot of things I didn't quite understand.
And so George graciously invited me over to the
office to talk a little bit about what they were
looking for. And what I found, as I started
discussing the topic with them was a general theme
that I saw that the mechanical group was going
towards and that was modularization and
prefabrication.
And this is a trend that was going on and
my background is primarily in heavy industrial, a
lot of chemical plant, and there is a lot of piping
and a lot of mechanical equipment that goes on in
the design and building of these plants. And so I
wanted to talk a little bit about some of the
advantages of where the engineering program is, or
the mechanical program is going in terms of what the
heavy industrial calls prefabrication, preassembly,
modularization and then offsite type of
manufacturing.
Next slide. Obviously, a lot of this stuff
has been mentioned, you go this route, you get some
significant reduction in project durations. You
improve productivity because things are being built
here and then shipped overseas so you've eliminated
some concerns and foreign workers working on a lot
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