Turner-Led Teams Deliver Pair of Emergency Facility Projects to Help Address COVID-19 Crisis in California


By Carol Eaton


“One team, one purpose, one vision.”


a COVID-19-related emergency response project for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and California State Department of General Services (DGS) in Indio, CA this March. Te company employed the same collabor- ative approach on a second emergency facility project that got underway in Sacramento just days after the first one completed. Te 125-bed Federal Medical


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hat was the mindset – and the official slogan – adopted by a Turner project team that delivered


Station facility at the Indio/Riverside Fairgrounds was the first of several temporary facilities constructed in California to prepare for a potential surge of patients during the initial stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. Turner Vice President and General


Manager Dan Wheeler fielded a call from DGS on March 23 about the company taking on the emergency work. By the next morning, California Healthcare Executive Steve Yots was at the fairgrounds to assess the site, help formulate a plan of attack and mobilize crews and equipment. Working nearly around the clock


starting the morning of March 25, in close partnership with DGS, the County of Riverside, Health & Human Services, Imperial Irrigation


District and trade partners Pan Pacific Mechanical, Rosendin Electric and Sunbelt Rentals, Turner successfully completed the project on the evening of March 27th


, just 72 hours after construction began.


Herculean Effort It was a herculean effort that


required cooperation and buy-in from all involved to be successful, according to Wheeler. “Coordinating the various agencies that were involved and getting it done within a very compressed timeframe was a monumental challenge,” he said. “To be able to get everybody together, to collaborate and decide what the scope of work is, and then being able to implement it in record time was amazing to watch.” Te overriding goal was keeping


safety in the forefront while meeting the highly accelerated schedule. “We were hour by hour with our pull planning, and we did four check-ins a day,” Yots said. “Te first thing we talked about was the safety of our people, knowing the hours we were working and the hand-offs that needed to happen quickly.” Delivering an emergency project


in the midst of a public health crisis required unique safety protocols that “added another layer of challenge” Wheeler noted. “Te only way we could get it done was if we were all pulling in the same direction.”


Same Trade Partners on Second Project


On the heels of the Indio job, DGS A socially distanced meeting on the Sleep Train site. 8 July/August 2020


awarded Turner a second emergency project, in Northern California: converting Sacramento’s Sleep Train


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