Phillip Chance

A PSC commentary on a field letter from Charlie Peart, Secure Facility Integrators, LLC. A colleague of ours, Charlie Peart of Secure Facility Integrators, recently circulated a letter to the secure facility construction community. Charlie has been doing this work since the Cold War, and he wrote to raise a flag about a shift he is seeing in the RF shielding requirements attached to the ICD705 projects now moving through the pipeline. We think his warning is worth reading, and worth building...

Every time we finish a consulting engagement, we walk away thinking about the twenty other project teams facing the same questions we just spent three months answering. They are not going to hire us. Most of them do not need to. But they do need a shared understanding of ICD 705 that they do not currently have, and the gap costs them time, money, and sometimes an accreditation. The desk where the Series got made That gap is what we spent the last year building for. The ICD 705 Foundations...

The first real budget number on a SCIF project is almost always a surprise. The surprise has a pattern. The team built the early estimate off commercial benchmarks, the secure facility realities were not in the assumptions, and the gap between the early number and the real number creates a crisis right when the project should be gaining momentum. The cost estimate that will not survive contact with reality The crisis is avoidable. The cost drivers are known. The early planning work that...