GM Pontiac Process Utility Holes Over Press Pit
STATEMENT OF PROBLEM Once the press pit steel design was complete, CCC provided the pit framing steel model / 2D drawings to GM to provide to Rotem for their use. Rotem placed approximately 45 openings through the rebar SOD, and provided the 2D process drawing to GM/CCC. This drawing underwent 10 revisions by Rot…
Datum Points Not Correctly Coordinated
8575 GM Ultium 2 Battery Plant STATEMENT OF PROBLEM 1. Bass Datums were not coordinated correctly/accurately. In turn, system integration was challenging. 2. Avaco did not have the skilled help they needed on site. 3. The schedule was built to construct all of Pancake Line-3, and then, all of Pancake NnD Input …
Estimating and VDL Knowledge
Project Phase: Estimating Delivery Method: General Contract-Sub Estimating made the assumption that VDLs were shipped in and never ran off. CCC doubled hours due to this. Manual provided for installation was not used per VDL Expert.
GM Arlington Assembly Non-Conforming Work Poor Concrete Finish
STATEMENT OF PROBLEM Poor finish on exterior concrete. Exterior concrete batch error. There was clumping or balling of synthetic fibers on the interior slab. Post project review shows poor grading and compaction of sub-grade and excessive fibers protruding from the slab. COURSE OF ACTION Offered GM an e…
GM Pontiac Blank Receiving Roof Support Steel for HVU-1
STATEMENT OF PROBLEM During design of the building steel, 4 joists in the blank receiving bay were upsized to accommodate the weight of the blank receiving air handling unit (HVU-1; 17000#) in bay 22/23, based on JEG''''s input. Later in the design phase (50% MEP design), the mechanical engineer rotated and moved th…
GM Pontiac Stair Width Clearance Issue
STATEMENT OF PROBLEM The GM process team stated they wanted 36" wide clearance for all metal stairs in a design meeting. When IBI designed the stairs they made the tread 36" wide. However, the inner grab bars which project from the outer guardrail impede on that clearance (only 32" clearance). This was deemed a n…
GM Pontiac Substation W Equipment Floor Loading Issue
STATEMENT OF PROBLEM CCC received the substation equipment shop drawings from GM late in the project, at end of July. In August CCC worked with GM on the rigging plan for hoisting the new substation equipment into the penthouse. IBI performed a structural analysis of the penthouse framing steel and the hoist beam…
GM Pontiac Incorporation of Scope From Bid-time Addendums and Q&A
STATEMENT OF PROBLEM Throughout the project there was a consistent issue where CCC/IBI failed to reference the bid-time addendum Q&A for final scope direction on design items which were not clear in the RFPS. The two major items which were not followed per the Q&A were: 1) OH door design in blank receiving fo…
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 Process (Press) Design Drawings coordination with Facility drawings
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…
