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.

Chanen, acting as CM at Risk, built the original 66,000-sq.-ft. satellite plant for Phoenix Newspapers in Mesa, Arizona, and a subsequent 55,490 sq. ft. expansion to accommodate a third press. The Mesa plant is comprised of three four-story rooms consisting of the mailroom, the paper storage area, which holds 5,000 rolls of newsprint, and the pressrooms housing three 430-ton Goss Metroliner offset presses.

Each aspect of construction had to be orchestrated around the presses. An absolutely level concrete bed, able to tolerate a load factor of 2,000 tons when paper was loaded onto the presses and settle no more than 1/32 inch, was required. To achieve this foundation, 54 caissons were drilled 18 feet into the ground under the press area to act as stabilizers.

A two-story, 17,000-sq.-ft. circulation office building was also built during construction of the expansion.

Chanen provided construction management services for this two-story clean room manufacturing facility. Motorola, Inc., one of the largest employers in Maricopa County, Arizona, has set the trend for high technology growth in the Valley. This automated electronic assembly plant and test facility includes clean rooms, and incorporates process piping, assembly equipment and testing instrumentation.

Chanen Construction has had a long and successful client/builder relationship with the Intel Corporation, as evidenced by this list of extensive work in Arizona. Chanen provided CM at Risk for the following four projects: