DACM Project Management was awarded a contract by the City of Los Angeles to provide constructability review services and cost estimating support for the Ahmanson Recruit Training Center. This 14-acre campus in Los Angeles, California is bounded by three major thoroughfares; 83rd Street, Osage Avenue, and Manchester Avenue. The campus itself includes the 171,756 square foot 4-story building, an athletic field, training course, and numerous parking areas throughout. The Type I structure includes classrooms, a dining room, weight room, the LAPD credit union, a TV studio, library, mock jury room, locker rooms, administrative offices, and numerous other amenities for the training of new recruits.

As part of its services for the City of Los Angeles, DACM Project Management performed a detailed constructability review of the Contract Documents for the purpose determining the feasibility and practicality of construction. This analysis of the plans and specifications focused on identifying methods and details requiring revisions by the Architect, as well as inconsistencies within the documents. Our estimate was unique in that half of the construction labor was being provided by the City’s own forces and the other half was being provided by union workers. This required that we closely examine the City’s historic payroll records and prepare a "labor rate build-up study" taking into account base wage, vacation premiums, annual escalation, benefits, and tax liabilities to determine both the cost of the City’s own forces by craft and the cost the City paid for union labor by craft.