 Milking parlor, before
To address these concerns and modernize the facility, the College of Agriculture chose to employ JOC—in which project design and cost proposal development take place simultaneously to reduce planning time, with the same contractor performing the construction work. From approval to completion, the project took just six months.
The project would have been completed even sooner except for an unanticipated need to reroute the underground electrical supply, and a slower than expected time for equipment delivery due to manufacturing delays.
Milking parlor, before
The new milking parlor features state-of-the-art modular dairy stalls, which due to their innovative design, could be installed in one day. To minimize disruption to the dairy's operations, half of the parlor was taken down for the upgrades while the other half was in active use for the twice-daily milkings of their 200 cows. Though project planners anticipated a month of expanded milking times, thanks to the cooperation of DREC, Centennial Contractors, and Physical Facilities, the process only took a week.

The new 16-stall equipment
Twelve outdated stalls made way for 16 new stalls that help increase the efficiency of the dairy farm's operations.
“We were very pleased with how this project went, and how the JOC process worked,” says Mike Grott, manager of the Dairy Research and Education Center.
As a Repair and Rehabilitation project, the $455,000 budget received $227,500 in matching funds. Construction began in mid-April, and finished in mid-June.
 Cows being milked by the new modular milking equipment.
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