The Isle House team officially achieved temporary certificate of occupancy (TCO) on June 7.

At the beginning of the year, Sr. Superintendent Maria Damas, who oversaw the TCO schedule with the project team's support, set a goal of June 7 to reach the milestone. She hit that date precisely. "A lot of things had to go perfectly to achieve that," says Project Director Ted Williams.

Ted shouted out other team members for their contributions:

• Superintendent Justin Schmitt was responsible for building out 250 apartment homes. By TCO, each home had an average of only 17 punch list items.
  
• Thanks to Superintendent Kelly Martz, who rotated into Core & Shell from his regular Webcor Concrete role, the project achieved State Elevator Final on schedule. Concrete built the elevator shafts so Kelly could transition from pouring them to installing elevators within them.  "That exemplifies what we're trying to accomplish with job rotations," Ted says.
  
• Also, on a rotation from Webcor Concrete, Senior Project Manager Kenny Hua joined the team six months before TCO. He took the extremely important and challenging role of managing the MEP trades during the drive to complete the apartment homes and start commissioning. As part of his rotation, he also wanted experience in managing and closing the project permits, which was critical in achieving TCO.
  
• Thanks also goes to teammates who were not only in the TCO grind but also making big contributions to the greater Webcor community at the same time:
  
  • Project Manager Karen Turcios is co-leading the entire summer intern program that started right at TCO.
    
  • Kristina Reyna is co-leading the New Engineers Will Build (NEWB) program that kick offs just over a month after TCO.

• Lastly, besides the individual recognitions above, it goes without saying that it takes a village. It’s incredible to see a group of individuals come together under highly challenging circumstances and still find success and sincerely enjoy working with one another.

The project will reach substantial completion in mid-July, with the first residents arriving on August 1.

What they're saying: "This TCO doesn’t happen without the extraordinary hard work of each and every one of our One Webcor team members," Ted says. These include: Maria Damas, Karen Turcios, Kristina Reyna, Cynthia Zolezzi, Lynn Bass, John Wilson, Pat Forbeck, Kenny Hua, Matt Moran, Kelly Martz, Justin Schmitt, Lucas Decasper, Ivan Chavez, Phil Nunez, BRENNAN TAYLOR, David Grattan, Mark Zherebnenkov, Erik Roggeveen, Rene Iriartborde, Tom McCue, Ivan Ramos, Jorge "Nacho" Equihua, Mario Saldana, Sergio Ruiz (and shout out to those that joined us for a portion of the project: Dave Thompson, Jocelyn Mezofenyi, Stephanie Azzolino, Erik Biczkow, Paulo "Porky" Munoz, Brian Kearney, Karl Jeppesen, Jan Yi, Jackie Cardera, Zak McKellips, and Mac Hammitt).