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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 Pontiac Cooling Tower System Design

STATEMENT OF PROBLEM Before the cooling tower system was turned over to the plant, an oily sheen was discovered in the basins by GM. CCC mitigated the issue with oil socks but it was brought up by the plant on why the filter was not running/filtering the oil. This was because the filter is not meant to filter oil…

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 …

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 …

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…

Cooling Tower Pump Room - Water Treatment Chemicals

Statement of Problem: The pump room design had insufficient containment for the two chemicals treating the cooling tower water. This led to a situation where if an accident were to happen and both drums were ruptured, the two incompatible chemicals could potentially mix and produce an adverse gaseous affect (chlo…

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…

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