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Environmental Remediation Subcontractor Management

Project Phase- Construction/Installation Delivery Method- General Contract-Prime Make sure that environmental subcontractor understands what the scope of work is and that they patrol the areas themselves instead of CCC running their crews. The environmental sub (AMS) did not fully understand the scope of th…

Union Issue - Loss of Productivity / Schedule Impact

Project Phase- Construction/Installation Delivery Method- General Contract-Prime CCC (Prime) and Demo Contractor Adamo (Subcontractor) were contracted to perform a Demo Strip out of the Chicago Assembly Plant Body Sides Bldg and Body Shop.  Over 1,500,000 sf of Demo to be completed in 7 days.  Almost unreal…

Kawasaki RTU Robot Anchoring

STATEMENT OF PROBLEM: No determination was provided from KUKA on the anchoring of the Kawasaki Robot RTU (7th axis robot) until the equipment arrived. It was then learned that the holes in the bases were suitable for 5/8 mechanical anchors and not 5/8" chemical anchors since the holes in RTU base were not large enoug…

Shift Turnover

Job #3007  Ford Chicago Assembly - Demolition STATEMENT OF PROBLEM Shift turn overs were not formalized, it seemed like it was a bit of a free for all. ROOT CAUSE Did not outline a standard shift turnover meeting/huddle which impacted communications from shift to shift. COURSE OF ACTION No action was taken …

Document Conditions Before Demolition

Project Phase - Construction/Installation Delivery Method- General Contract-Prime After demolition completion, the owner came back and stated that CCC had damaged some things, and we had no way of knowing who broke it / prove them wrong.

Zone Management

Project Phase- Construction/Installation Delivery Method- General Contract-Prime CCC''s Supervision was scattered throughout the plant without defined responsibilities. Because of this, the customer would call the PM for any and all issues rather than the person responsible for that zone. We had 1 punch…

Floor Patching

Project Phase- Design Delivery Method- General Contract-Prime There was a T&M allowance for floor patching. A week before job start, Owner notified CCC we would be doing the patching. Floor patching material wasn''t approved until a few days prior to the start of shutdown. The material wasn''t going to …

Demolition Tagging Procedures

Project Phase- Construction/Installation Delivery Method- General Contract-Prime As part of the scope we were to identify and mark utilities to be air gapped for make safe demolition. The routing of these utilities, plant logistics and infrastructure in place made the identification and marking of these uti…

Document Control

Project Phase- Construction/Installation Delivery Method- General Contract-Prime Document control process was amended mid-project to less efficient method. Project leadership had books created for each area manager. These books contained sheets for areas not assigned to the person they were made for, and were …

Level of Staffing

Project Phase- Construction/Installation Delivery Method- General Contract-Prime Did not have enough management staff at start of project. The scope and scale of the project was foreign to everyone involved. While we felt we had the appropriate level of resources were woefully short. As such, expectatio…

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