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Chanen's fast-track schedule saved one year for Phoenix Newspapers, Inc. (PNI) publisher of the Arizona Republic when it built its $128 million printing facility in Deer Valley, Arizona. The time saving was accomplished by issuing nine bid packages before design completion, using creative scheduling and combining nearly 1,000 separate design changes into one.
This fast-track plan placed the Deer Valley project so far ahead of schedule that presses destined for a plant in Seattle, which was behind schedule, were rerouted to Phoenix. PNI's building scheduling was altered to postpone the construction of the diamond-shaped advertising and newsroom building and acoustical glass-viewing wall. This allowed the four Goss Colorliner printing presses, each four stories tall and weighing 1.28 million pounds, to be offloaded directly from their trucks into the press bay rather than bringing them through the paper storage warehouse in sections.
Installation time was reduced by eight months. The advertising and newsroom building was then constructed in only four months.
An 800,000-gallon thermal storage tank is used to store chilled water for the air conditioning system and serves as a reserve water supply for an extensive fire sprinkler system.
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PHOENIX NEWSPAPERS PLANT
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DEER VALLEY, ARIZONA
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The building has superflat floors to accommodate robots that move rolls of paper weighing thousands of pounds through the plant.
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