At Metanoeo LLC, we are committed to delivering high-quality construction services that meet or exceed industry standards and regulatory requirements. Our team ensures compliance with the following codes and standards:
2021 International Building Code (IBC): We adhere to the IBC standards for structural integrity, fire resistance, and safety.
2021 International Mechanical Code (IMC): Our designs and installations meet the IMC requirements for HVAC systems.
2021 International Plumbing Code (IPC): We comply with the IPC regulations governing water supply, waste drainage, and sanitation.
2021 International Fire Code (IFC): Our projects meet the IFC requirements for fire protection systems and life safety.
2020 National Electrical Code (NEC): We adhere to the NEC standards for electrical wiring, grounding, and safety.
2015 International Energy Conservation Code (IECC): Our designs meet the IECC energy efficiency criteria for HVAC, lighting, and building envelope.
2021 International Existing Building Code (IEBC): We comply with the IEBC regulations for renovations to existing structures.
Texas Accessibility Standards (TAS) and Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA): Our designs ensure accessible routes, accessible fixtures, and usability of all spaces, complying with TAS and ADA requirements.
At Metanoeo LLC, our team of experts possesses in-depth knowledge and expertise in fire protection and life safety design, ensuring seamless integration of various systems to deliver high-quality projects that meet occupant safety and code compliance requirements.
Our team has extensive expertise in designing life safety systems that meet the unique needs of each project.
Compartmentation: We use rated wall and ceiling assemblies to compartmentalize egress corridors, ensuring occupant safety and compliance with applicable codes and regulations. Our compartmentation design considers factors such as wall and ceiling ratings, door and frame assemblies, and smoke barrier continuity to ensure optimal performance.
Before construction commences, our team conducts a thorough site verification process to:
Verify Existing Conditions: We verify existing field conditions, including site layout, building structures, and utility locations, to ensure accurate project planning and execution.
Identify Potential Issues: Our team identifies potential issues or conflicts that may impact project timelines, budgets, or quality, and develops proactive mitigation strategies.
To ensure compliance with applicable codes and regulations, our team coordinates all penetrations in fire-rated walls, including:
Firestop Systems: We ensure compliance with IBC 714 for firestop systems, selecting materials and designing systems that meet or exceed code requirements.
Penetration Management: Our team manages all penetrations, including electrical, mechanical, and plumbing, to ensure accurate placement, sizing, and sealing.
Our team prepares and submits comprehensive drawings and submittals, including:
HVAC Equipment: We submit detailed drawings and specifications for HVAC equipment, including sizing, layout, and performance data.
Electrical Fixtures: Our team submits drawings and specifications for electrical fixtures, including lighting, outlets, and switches.
Plumbing Materials: We submit drawings and specifications for plumbing materials, including pipes, fittings, and fixtures.
For critical systems, our team prepares and submits deferred submittals, including:
Fire Alarm System: We submit detailed drawings and specifications for fire alarm systems, including detection, notification, and control components.
Sprinkler System: Our team submits drawings and specifications for sprinkler systems, including piping, fittings, and sprinkler heads.
For critical systems, our team prepares and submits deferred submittals, including:
Fire Alarm System: We submit detailed drawings and specifications for fire alarm systems, including detection, notification, and control components.
Sprinkler System: Our team submits drawings and specifications for sprinkler systems, including piping, fittings, and sprinkler heads.
Plumbing Materials: We submit drawings and specifications for plumbing materials, including pipes, fittings, and fixtures.
Metanoeo employs several innovative methods to ensure and monitor security and safe work practices throughout all levels of our organization. Because we integrate our subcontractors into our workforce, we maintain a culture of inclusion and work pride across project operations, enforce compliance to EM-385-1-1 requirements, as well as our management and safety processes and procedures. We utilize our daily Toolbox Talks to reinforce safety risks and mitigation methods for our workforce. Metanoeo’s SSHO ensures consistent implementation of Metanoeo’s Health and Safety Plan, Contingency Plan, and Environmental Protection Plans. Our plans align to project guidelines and regulations, meet all safety requirements and standards, to include OSHA Safety and Health Standards.
Our Safety Plan provides a customized roadmap to identify, monitor, and mitigate threats to personnel’s safety and the success of the project we have undertaken. Our Plan includes job-specific Safety Plans relevant to the potentially hazardous situations at Field Station. Before the project starts, we require all on-site personnel, including subcontractors, to read our Contingency Plan and Safety Plans and sign a statement verifying that they have done so, which we file in their employment records. The Site Superintendent and SSHO review our Contingency and Safety Plans, to include safety risks, prevention measures, fire and emergency response procedures, and medical services during training and present task-specific refreshers during daily Toolbox Talks at the start of each workday. Our SSHO also submits our notification list for personnel to be contacted by the CO and COR, if needed for emergencies or incidents.
Metanoeo’s project training will integrate information regarding site specific challenges and weather conditions, maintaining safe work areas, and working in occupied spaces. Our Site Superintendent completes Personnel Status Reports (PERSTAT) as personnel arrives for the day, before and after lunch breaks, and before personnel leave to ensure no one is left behind. He will also ensure that personnel wear brightly colored uniforms for quick identification, badges and that no weapons are in their possession or vehicles. In addition, our Site Superintendent will review check-in and security requirements at the contracting office with all personnel and subcontractors.
We provide appropriate PPE commensurate each job description and relevant to the project. All personnel will wear non-slip sturdy work boots, long sleeve shirts and long pants. We will provide rain gear (as needed), hard hats and work gloves. Whenever working six feet or greater from the ground, fall protection standards will be followed and personnel will wear safety harnesses as well as buoyancy vests if work is performed over two feet of water consistent with OSHA Standards 1926.106.Fire Precautions: Our SSHO monitors our Safety Plan and ensures all reasonable precautions are taken to prevent and suppress fires as a result of work in the project area. We take measures to mitigate the risk of fire, to include a no smoking rule while working in the forest, which also prevents unnecessary debris; and placing fire extinguishers nearby during tasks that require equipment or tools that use electrical power, fuel, and sparks from welding. We place generators in containment basins with a 110% fill capacity and place a fire extinguisher within five feet of each generator and three feet from the ground.
Our Safety Plan and Communication Mechanisms ensure our personnel complete work safely and carefully to prevent conflicts or hazards to other employees within the work site, project personnel and visitors to the Site. Our Safety Plan will also include locations for installation of safety equipment, fencing and barriers which will be verified regularly by SSHO to ensure they remain in place.
Our SSHO monitors our Safety Plan and ensures all reasonable precautions are taken to prevent and suppress fires as a result of work in the project area. We take measures to mitigate the risk of fire, to include a no smoking rule while working in the forest, which also prevents unnecessary debris; and placing fire extinguishers nearby during tasks that require equipment or tools that use electrical power, fuel, and sparks from welding. We place generators in containment basins with a 110% fill capacity and place a fire extinguisher within five feet of each generator and three feet from the ground.
Metanoeo uses cloud-based tools that foster communication, streamline management processes, and facilitate reporting. We also use Government systems, including SpecsIntact and DrChecks, to validate, document, and collaborate on drawings, submit requests for information (RFI) and submittals, and report quality. Internally, our primary information sharing tool is Teams, which allows our home office and field teams to communicate via videoconferencing and share documents in real-time. We use these tools to monitor and manage quality controls as well as provide real-time reporting. Our Microsoft Teams service is CMMC Level 3 compliant, meeting the DoD’s Risk Management Framework (RMF) requirements.
To ensure tight quality controls on a project, we have an ISO-compliant Quality Management Program (QMP), which provides our project QC Plan (QCP) foundation. Our QMP is a three- phased process that incorporates required codes, specifications, and standards, such as ASTM, ACI, UFC, ANSI, and others. Our QMP includes templates for auditing, inspecting, reporting, and the processes for implementing corrective actions for deficiencies. Templates, forms, and reports are uploaded to the Technical Library on our program Teams portal for access by our Project Management Team.
Using our QMP, our CQM develops, implements, and enforces project-specific QCP and results- oriented business practices across all aspects of project operations. We are committed to adhering to the highest professional standards for project planning, data collection, project execution, and the production of deliverables. Therefore, our QCP includes a process improvements phase and is compliant with the USACE’s three-phased quality process. Our program-level QCP will include regional conditions, such as pouring and setting concrete during hot or rainy weather. It includes a three-phased process and is consistent with our Communication Mechanisms and our CPI and PMBOK practices. We hold a meeting for each phase, conduct on-going meetings in the Follow-Up Phase, and notify the Government at least 48 hours in advance of each meeting for inclusion. We discuss each phase in more detail in the three sections that follow.
Our QCM conducts a Preparatory Meeting after the Team completes a review of all applicable plans, specifications, and related submittals, yet prior to the performance of work. We develop a Preparatory Meeting Agenda for each definable work feature and ensure all required codes, specifications, and standards are covered, such as ASTM, ACI, UFC, UFGS, ANSI, and other standards. The meeting facilitates a collaborative environment, which enhances quality. The Team checks to make sure all materials meet the design specifications and have been tested/checked, submitted through the submittal register, and approved by the Government. At the meeting, our key personnel coordinate with Quality and Safety Management personnel to introduce the plan for accomplishing the work and inspecting materials and activities. We document results and disseminate meeting minutes to all project stakeholders, including responsible project personnel.
Metanoeo focuses the initial phase on inspections and workmanship. At the beginning of any definable feature of work, we hold an Initial Phase meeting and repeat the meeting when new personnel are assigned to the work or if the required standard of work is not being met. The same personnel who attend the Preparatory Meeting also attend the Initial Phase and the Follow-up Phase meetings. At minimum, Core Construction requires attendance by the Superintendent and Foremen, Safety Officers, and the QA/QC staff. Throughout the Initial Phase, we review activity analyses with each worker, continually inspect the work effort to ensure quality and conformance to specifications and verify the adequacy of controls.
We perform the Follow-up Phase daily to ensure that the controls established during the Preparatory Phase and reviewed and implemented in the Initial Phase continue to provide a built product that conforms to the contractual requirements and design intent. Our certified QC staff inspects all construction activities in accordance with our QC procedures. They use our standardized ISO-compliant and PMBOK-based forms for various activities and then attach them to the daily QC Report. Any installation and testing activities that do not comply with the requirements are documented on a Non-Conformance Report (NCR), corrective action is implemented, and the correction is tracked through completion and acceptance.
We conduct additional preparatory and initial phases on the same definable features of work if the quality of on-going work is unacceptable; if there are changes in the applicable QC staff, on- site production supervision, or work crew personnel; if work on a definable feature is resumed after a substantial period of inactivity; or, if other problems develop. As necessary, we conduct meetings, and we notify the Government in advance for inclusion.