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 …
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 …
HVAC Equipment Structural Loads
Project Plan: Construction Delivery Method: EPC (Engineer Procure Construct) The weight of the HVAC units and LEF-1 central exhaust unit increased dramatically from 30% design level to IFC. Ultimately some additional steel reinforcing was required for supporting LEF-1 fans. This added cost to the project.
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…
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…
Scrap Management
Project Phase- Design Delivery Method- General Contract-Prime There were several times that our demolition subcontractor had large pieces of mezzanines, etc. that could have been loaded onto low boys instead of the scrap containers. Low boys were not provided at times so the demolition contractor had to cut…
Laser Pointers
Project Phase- Design Delivery Method- General Contract-Prime The plant was dark and due to the work activity we needed to constantly point things out in the truss space and did not have a means to do this.
Demolition Subcontractor Management
Project Phase- Construction/Installation Delivery Method- General Contract-Prime Schedule Delay- Adamo fell behind during demolition of existing tooling in the Body Shop for several reasons. Inexperienced workforce was the biggest contributing factor along with union problems. Not only was the union unwilling to …
Orientation
Project Phase- Construction/Installation Delivery Method- General Contract-Prime CCC orientation was to follow the CM for Ford orientation at the Conference Center Hall. The Friday at approx 3:30 pm before the Mass orientations on Monday we were informed that Aristeo (CM for Ford) had to open more orientation spo…
Liquidated Damages
Project Phase- Construction/Installation Delivery Method- General Contract-Prime The contract did not have stated liquidated damages for penalty or delay. This left CCC open to actual damages.
