General Motors Lansing Delta Township Assembly Complex
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Client: General Motors Corporation
Location: Lansing, Michigan, United States
Project Type: Vehicle Manufacturer
Contract Amount: $178,000,000 USD
Delivery Method: Design-Build Construction Management
Project Size: 1,400,000 sq. ft.
Start Date: February 2004
Completion Date: December 2005
Architect/Engineer: Ghafari Associates

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General Motors Lansing Delta Township Assembly Complex

The General Motors-Lansing Delta Township (LDT) project, which was built on 375 acres of a 1,100-acre farm, is a campus-style automotive assembly facility.  The campus is made up of five significant structures interconnected by 101,000 square-feet of elevated conveyor/ utility trestles.  Raw coiled steel is stamped at one end of the facility and is conveyed through welding, painting, and assembly areas before exiting as a finished vehicle at the other end of the facility.

 

GM-LDT is able to boast many firsts:

            • The “first” ever GM manufacturing facility built using Design-Build/GMP delivery.
            • The “first” time GM facility designers have partnered and actively collaborated with architects, engineers, and contractors to develop cost and time-effective building strategies.
            • The first automotive manufacturing facility to be LEED®-certified.
            • The first automotive project to use web-based project communication, tracking, and documentation systems involving multiple entities from both within and outside the GM organization.
            • The first 3-D-designed project to continuously merge building design information with design data for material handling, product, and process tooling to create an interactive model.

 

The team building this state-of-the-art facility was called “Delta Crew.”  The “crew” consisted of nearly 100 personnel from Alberici, GM, Ghafari Engineering, James N. Gray, Superior Electric, and John E. Green.  Thirty-six members of the “crew” worked in a design center established at Ghafari offices in Dearborn, MI, where they were actively involved with project design and construction document development. 

 

 

GM-LDT is 38 percent more productive than any other manufacturing facility built in GM history. It also established a new standard of development and implementation methods that GM will continue to use on future projects