Description
The reason Gar-San considers this project special is its importance to the State of Connecticut and Homeland Security. - The Vehicle Storage Building is a large 50,000 s.f. maintenance storage facility for the City of Bridgeport maintenance facility, which stand prominently and serves a utilitarian purpose. The Emergency Operations Center stands in contrast to the "work horse" function of the Vehicle Storage Building because the Emergency Operations Center is a state-of-art, high tech surveillance, and emergency response communications facility. The purpose of the EOC is two fold. The first, is a well-needed and centralized communication center for emergency operations for Connecticut. And, second, is to provide a centralized mechanism for communication in the possible event of a terrorist attack. Currently, in the state of Connecticut, each city and town operates under its own "island" in the event of an emergency or crisis. There is an informal decentralized communication between the towns and cities, but often communication is not dispersed in a timely and orderly manner needed in an emergency. The purpose of the EOC is to centralize all communications within the state in the event of an emergency, primarily for natural disasters, i.e. flooding, hurricanes, blizzards, and other severe weather conditions. All emergency information will now be processed and coordinated through this EOC facility in Bridgeport. Information will be collected from affected cities and towns in Connecticut and dispersed state wide through a state-of-the-art communication system.
GAR-SAN Corporation was incorporated in 1980 as a General Contractor/Construction Manager constructing projects throughout Connecticut and selected areas in New York State. Since 1980 Gar-San Corporation has completed a wide range of projects in both the private and public sectors. Gar-San Corporation's diverse construction experience has included commercial, industrial, institutional, multi unit residential housing and high end architectural fit-ups. Our company has been particularly active in numerous construction of education facilities, elderly and affordable housing, hospitals and churches. 70 % of our projects are repeat clients who depend on Gar-San Corporation to deliver another quality, timely and on-budget project. Our Construction Management department has experienced exponential growth in the past five years. Approximately 30 % of our projects are negotiated construction management, which is a direct outgrowth of our successful general contracting division. Our combined CM/GC experience allows Gar-San Corporation to support our projects with extensive construction knowledge needed to deliver successful projects. Our professional personnel consists of seasoned project managers and superintendents, project engineers and highly experienced estimators well versed in all phase of conceptual , hard bid lump sum estimates with special emphasis on value engineering. Virtually all our negotiated projects involve value engineering, which includes a thorough review of the contract drawings to provide alternate savings to the owner without compromising quality. Our office staff consists of accounting, legal and contract administration, which supports the field to insure utmost efficiency to exceed our clients' expectations.
