Experience and Expertise in the Following Areas



Highly Experienced Personnel


Tropical principals and key employees represent a total of 50 years of construction experience with 20 years of specific heavy timber construction. This experience enables us to deliver the best service and products in a timely, cost effective, high quality manner.


Value Engineering


Tropical Construction Services, LLC, provides project value engineering to our clients. The most significant cost improvements are based upon designs that reduce manpower requirements to construct timber bridges. At Tropical, timber bridge designs are an economic blending of materials, manpower, construction methods and equipment to achieve a low cost high quality product. 

 


Change Order Negotiation


 Tropical’s detailed scope of work is designed to minimize change orders, especially when the project is a design/build structure. When project modifications occur, Tropical field personnel notify, identify and provide specific data to Senior Project Committee for their review and input. If the modification is determined to be outside of project scope, documentation is generated and submitted to the client for review. Tropical will work with the Client to resolve issue to keep the project on schedule and within budget. Tropical Construction Services will not perform the increased scope of work without client’s written approval.


Claims Management


Although project claims are rare, Tropical Construction Services, LLC Senior Project Committee provides immediate response to issues as they occur. Internal procedures provide for collection of pertinent claims data, timely review and response to all parties associated with the issue at hand.


Warranty Follow-up


Our Product Warranty is one year for all pedestrian structures less than a 10 ton load capacity and three years for all vehicular products over a 10 ton load capacity.

Routine post construction activities provide two (2) site visits following construction. The site visits are conducted at six and twelve month intervals to inspect the structure for compliance to design criteria. Additional future maintenance can be purchased up to ten (10) years duration.


Relevant Specialized Experience


Although timber bridge structure repairs/upgrades represent a small percentage of Tropical Construction Services business, these activities are provided to some clients. The repairs/upgrades on 5-ton and less timber structures include handrail, curb, deck and support system removal and replacements. Heavy maintenance (10-ton) and Vehicular Timber Bridge (20-ton plus) wear deck removal and replacement is most frequently requested.