Field Checks not being completed
Project Phase: Installation Delivery Method: General Contract-Sub Customer and Prime field checks were not complete and / or not accurate.
GM LGR CMM Pit Infill Incorrect Shake Hardener Color
STATEMENT OF PROBLEM Concrete pour was cancelled after 20 yards arrived on site. Shake hardener color was incorrect. Color was not specified by the PM when ordering. Superintendent did not verify color of pour until morning of pour. The pre-pour checklist was incomplete. COURSE OF ACTION Pour reschedule…
Inefficiencies and lost time due to lack of bolt bin
Project Phase: Project Delivery Method: General Contract-Sub No mobile bolt bin created field inefficiencies and lost time.
Clarification of Building Structural Steel Design Type
Statement of Problem: At bid time GM provided LGR structural reference drawings for their press bay addition. These drawings employed a single-column design concept with a cantilevered bracket to support the crane girders. However, nothing in the RFPS stated that Pontiac had to use a single-column design or copy …
GM Pontiac Toilet Room Basin Sinks
STATEMENT OF PROBLEM Incorrectly sized basin-style sinks were installed in the mens and womens toilet rooms, which created a code violation where the egress minimum width of 36" was impeded in the mens toilet room entrance way. The architect sized and placed the basin-style sinks at mens and womens locker rooms but …
Unknown As-Built Conditions
Statement of Problem: At bid time CCC received the 1950 Albert Kahn facility record drawings of the plant. This set had two foundation drawings, showing two different column foundation types for the plant. One drawing showed all footings, one drawing showed all caissons. It was unknown by GM which was the as-built c…
GM Pontiac Tooling Cart Trenches Dimensional Error
STATEMENT OF PROBLEM During the revisions being made to the Rotem drawings, on revision 5 Rotem changed the width and depth for one of the two tooling cart rails for each tooling cart rail system located between the presses (4 sets of rails total). The trench for the rail became wider by several millimeters and deep…
Press Process Design Coordination with Facility Design
Statement of Problem: There were several issues to where the 2D press drawings provided by Rotem did not show enough detailed information for proper coordination. These included: 1) the press cable trays in pit 2) The platforms and ladders between the presses. 3) D/B team not having a useable press 3D model. …
GM Pontiac Fire Alarm Design Review
STATEMENT OF PROBLEM The electrical subcontractor contracted Siemens to perform the fire alarm design. The drawings were submtited and reviewed by IBI and were also reviewed and approved by the city/fire department. However it was identified after the fact that the fire alarm drawings did not include smoke detect…
GM Pontiac Column Coordination Log
STATEMENT OF PROBLEM Due to the amount of the utility drops at columns for this project being on the lighter side, a column coordination log was forgone and instead any and all column coordination was performed in regular 3D coordination meetings between CCC and its subcontractors. The primary reason for the colu…
