GM Pontiac Northeast Corner Grade Beam Issue
STATEMENT OF PROBLEM During design of the site, civil designed for an exterior grading elevation which was higher than the top of the grade beam elevation at the NE corner of the building. At this location there is a narrow gap between the building grade beam and the ring road (about 3''''). Originally a curb was no…
GM Pontiac Oily Wastewater Tank Design
STATEMENT OF PROBLEM For this project a new, welded steel oily wastewater tank was provided in the scrap tunnel in lieu of relocating an existing tank, at no cost to GM. The new tank shop drawings did not include for a manway. The shop drawings were submitted, reviewed, and approved by the EOR. The tank was fabri…
GM Pontiac Press Pier Anchor Bolt Cans
STATEMENT OF PROBLEM During the design process CCC was provided with a Rotem drawing with several sheets detailing the press foundation requirements. An enlarged elevation called for a "can" cast into the pier to allow for bolting the press anchor rod (hand hole). The drawing showed the can height at 300mm. Howev…
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…
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 A-line Existing Foundations
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…
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…
GM Pontiac Press Pit Lighting Fixtures
STATEMENT OF PROBLEM The lighting fixture designed for the press pit and tunnel lighting went through IBI and GM approval and the photometric calcs were discussed several times. However prior to installation, the electrical subcontractor realized that the fixture was not listed in GM OneSpec. Triangle notified CC…
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 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…
