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LA Clippers practice facility: a building that never closed

General contracting and design on the redesign of the LA Clippers practice facility; the work ran through Tellus Design and Build; June 2017 to October 2018

IndustrySports and entertainment facilities
Project typePhased construction program
DatesJune 2017 to October 2018
SeatGeneral contracting and design
EntityTellus Design and Build

The Clippers reached out to Tellus to design and rebuild their practice facility: locker rooms, performance and rehab, training and coaching space, and a player lounge.

A working NBA facility with no offseason long enough to close it. Ownership and team operations had approved a program of many small scopes inside rooms in daily use.

Problem

A phasing plan built around what the team needs open on a given day, not the fastest finish, and a definition of done held by the people who use the rooms.

What we did

Hold the practice calendar fixed and let the finish date move. Map the shared systems before design, one room down at a time, and team operations signs each phase done.

Result

Finished on schedule in October 2018: about $1.2 million of work across many small scopes, and a client that was very happy with it.

A room that matches the drawings and cannot be used is not done. The people who run the building decide when it is done, not the people who built it.Jesse Fowler

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The decision and the reasoning

Why we did it this way, told first.

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What we did and what it produced

The work, decision by decision, and the result.

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A slice of the project list

A few related projects.

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