Anthony J. Guzzi
Analyst · UBS.
Yes, and yes. We absolutely continue to look for opportunities to expand that. We fabricate for the most part for ourselves, 95% is for us. There's some that some will ask us to do a job because we did particularly well somewhere and there's another skid, they want to send to another data center site somewhere where we're not the installer. But again, that's 5% -- 95% for us. We have -- if you look at our CapEx as a percentage of sales, it's relatively the same but it's more than doubled, and that is almost all in the prefabrication assets. And it's mainly, in the Construction business, it's in the fire life safety business, which is a -- in the sprinkler side, especially as a big prefabricated business. And even there, we do about 70% of our total volume, and we still source 30%, and we'll always do that because some of the smaller jobs -- local jobs, it doesn't make sense for us to build fabrication capability. On the Electrical, we continue to expand that, probably more aggressively than any right now because we have more sites, we're doing data center work at and other large-scale work. And mechanically, we have a couple of really big shops we continue to expand. Again, we're fabricating for ourselves. And where you see that fabrication really come into play on fire life safety, it's almost every job on the sprinkler side. But where you see it come to play in Electrical is on the large jobs. When you're doing a big data center, a big duck bank, if you're doing some of the underground, we're looking for ways every day to take labor off the job and become more efficient and safer. And so the bigger electrical jobs data centers, semiconductor plants, pharma plants been mechanical even more so, especially as you get to the heavy piping systems, which is especially true for semi plants and manufacturing plants in general, healthcare and also data centers. So you put all that together, the growth in the markets we see is what's driving our prefabrication. But you cannot do that prefabrication unless you have very good VDC and BIM capability. So what's really happened in the world today is drawings are getting done to a certain level. We're not usually the engineer of record. But we are finishing for constructability at about 50% to 70%, 60%. We're picking up and getting more involved in the design on these to design for constructability and offer our suggestions to get more value engineering in place especially on means and methods. That then drives our prefabrication plan for that job. And for us, that's very much coordinated with the field and how we do that. Like I said, for us today, it's about 95% for us. Some people call this modular construction, we call prefabrication.