01-27-25 - 2- Council WS and Regular Meeting

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FIRM QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE ON SIMILAR PROJECTS Oertel Architects and our team our uniquely suited to deliver a successful project for the City of Lino Lakes. Every single staff member in our office has worked on numerous public works and maintenance facilities. Our passion and fascination with this type of project has driven our expert qualifications. We are an award -winning public works facility design firm. We have worked on the planning and designing of over 100 separate facilities and comprehensive studies. We are a sought-after resource around the entire Midwest for the planning and design of public works facilities, working on projects in North Dakota, South Dakota, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Wisconsin and Michigan. We hope that our resumes indicating our extensive experience show our true dedication to these types of facilities. Our proposed team members will be directly involved with your Public Works project from the initial kick-off meeting until the very end of on -site construction observation. We pride ourselves on keeping the same staffing from project inception through to the end of Construction Administration. This ensures the same people that worked on the initial design can be on the job site to make sure the project maintains the quality and detailing we design for, and to avoid costly changes during construction. Your primary points of contact throughout the design and construction process will be Thomas Stromsodt as Principal in Charge and Dan Greuel as Project Architect. The other main points of contact will be Janneke Schaap (Sustainability) and Brenda Dever (Interiors). All proposed Oertel staff have extensive experience with these types of facility, and directly communicate with each other on a daily basis. If any one of our team members is unavailable for any reason (i.e vacation, sickness, etc.) one of the other team members will be fully committed and capable of providing any services or information which is needed at that time. We have an open studio office environment, which means every employee is aware of all of the other projects in the office. Our firm has weekly office staff meetings to efficiently and effectively manage all of the projects and to ensure they are all successfully completed on time and on budget. We will provide all required coordination with the entire remainder of our proposed team, including our engineers. Quality Assurance and Quality Control are an integral part of our design process, throughout the entire project from the initial Preliminary Design check set to the entire construction process. As we have extensive experience with this project type, we are aware of coordination items which need to be detailed and aligned appropriately to avoid any surprises during construction. Something as seemingly simple as indicating the exact location of your air and water drops, and lube reels on the drawings is something that must be coordinated prior to going out to bid. If they are not indicated exactly where you would like them, you may not have the coverage you were anticipating, or the locations may impede internal traffic flow. Our experience allows us to not only discuss the pros and cons of potential locations for such items, but also to ensure they are included in the drawings exactly where you would like them. As a result of our open office studio environment and our ongoing relationships with our team consultants we are able to quickly and expertly respond to any owner's PROPOSAL FOR PROFESSIONAL SERVICES FOR THE LINO LAKES PUBLIC WORKS FACILITY concerns throughout the entire project. If by chance one of the team members working directly on your project hasn't had experience with the concern you may have, we are able to discuss that concern with others in our office and within our consultant's offices, to come to an educated and experienced resolution. Our expert team manages every project from the initial project initiation through to the end of construction. As mentioned previously, an integral part of that is our quality assurance and quality control process. We also provide review and check sets throughout the design process, with sufficient time for you to review and provide feedback on. This ensures the project moves forward at the appropriate timeline to meet your construction schedule requirements. Our goal is to ensure all design, equipment, traffic, layout options are decided on before moving onto the next phase, beginning with the "big picture" through to the smallest detail. If changes are made during the design process, which there usually are, our goal is to minimize the impact on the previously completed design documents to keep the project on schedule. Sometimes changes are also requested by the owner during the construction project. As a result of having the same team members on the project from the inception through construction we can quickly provide insight into the pros and cons of any changes and coordinate with our internal team and our engineers to provide the most cost-effective means of implementing a successful revision to the project. OERTEL ARCHITECTS- 2