Precast Plank Installation Within Building
Project Phase: Construction Delivery Method: EPC (Engineer Procure Construct) Statement of Problem: Precast plank installation over toilet rooms, within building after steel was erected. Based on the lead time of the precast the lid had to be installed after the roof steel was erected and there was …
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 …
Roof Maintenance Access
Project Phase: Construction Delivery Method: EPC (Engineer Procure Construct) Statement of Problem: During the design phase of the BP-06 architectural build out, the height of the mezzanine in relation of the roof steel and height of the low roof did not allow for the chain hoist/rail within the high ba…
3D BIM Coordination
Project Phase: Construction Delivery Method: EPC (Engineer Procure Construct) Statement of Problem: The laboratory project involved a lot of utilities within the ceiling space. At bid time, the Owner did not accept a bid alternate for developing a 3D model deliverable. The building was designed in mostl…
Zone Management
Project Phase- Construction/Installation Delivery Method- General Contract-Prime CCC''s Supervision was scattered throughout the plant without defined responsibilities. Because of this, the customer would call the PM for any and all issues rather than the person responsible for that zone. We had 1 punch…
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 …
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…
Union Issue - Loss of Productivity / Schedule Impact
Project Phase- Construction/Installation Delivery Method- General Contract-Prime CCC (Prime) and Demo Contractor Adamo (Subcontractor) were contracted to perform a Demo Strip out of the Chicago Assembly Plant Body Sides Bldg and Body Shop. Over 1,500,000 sf of Demo to be completed in 7 days. Almost unreal…
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.
