| penner2k | 07-04-2012 05:04 PM |
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Originally Posted by Everymans
(Post 7783355)
Lots of props goes to the people working on highway one right now. too many people give them shit for standing around or taking 4 years. Those people don't realize how much of a headache it is to build a road while keeping the current one open. you gotta do 90% of the paving at night and you can barely ever work in the rain, and you can only do certain sections before closing off other sections so you can work on them. If they could shut down the entire highway they could have had all the work done(excluding the bridge) in a year with their current work force.
| A lot of people dont really realize what goes in to big construction projects like this. If everything went perfectly it would also be done fast... but it doesnt... then its a matter of coming up with a plan to fix the problem and getting approval to make changes..
As an example... The project I'm working on has 2 huge buildings that are coolers.. there are vents that they can open and close to get more or less air into the buildings and there are these 20 lb actuators that do that job.. the brackets we had to mount those werent machined quite right... there is almost no stress on them even when they operate the actuators so it should be really simple to just modify the brackets with a zip cut and throw them on..
no.. we had to come up with a plan... then cut one bracket and take pictures to send to Worley Parson's engineering to approve. Then another copy gets sent to Suncor for approval...
In all a 30 minute fix took us a week before we could do it.
I cant imagine how much of a headache something like this would be. | 