Shift Turnover
Job #3007 Ford Chicago Assembly - Demolition STATEMENT OF PROBLEM Shift turn overs were not formalized, it seemed like it was a bit of a free for all. ROOT CAUSE Did not outline a standard shift turnover meeting/huddle which impacted communications from shift to shift. COURSE OF ACTION No action was taken …
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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.
