bimr--Yes I have read the contract. In this part of the world it is a standard contract that is used on all construction projects. It doesnt go into great detail about how costs are determined when the owner causes a delay. There is a 2 sentence description in the clause that basically says the...
Ben Johnson--the contract states the contractor should be paid for costs incurred by the delay. It doesnt get much more specific than that. I have been on jobs in similar situations where the operators just sat in their trucks. Which made me wonder if there isnt some sort of case law out there...
cr1973-- I dont think it was a realistic option for the contractor to focus on another project. For the first week the contractor did as much as he could on the site but finally ran out of things to do. The contractor notified the engineer that he was running out of things to do. The engineer...
I am a site inspector on a project where the contractor wants to be paid for down time due to a delay. The contract clearly states he can be paid for costs for a delay caused by the owner or their representatives. Basically a rough grading contractor ran into some under ground springs and the...
I am required to install trim mat on a steep slope to protect it from erosion and allow plant growth. The specs describe installing the mat paralell to the slope. My contractor--who is very experienced--says it makes more sense to install it perpendicular to the slope, like shingles on a roof. I...
A differant firm did the geo-technical analysis of the site. They drilled 15 bore holes and the water table was 9 feet down. They drilled in early April and in this location--close to a creek--the water table fluctuates with the seasons.Nobody realized there was a spring --most thought the pond...
I am an inspector on the construction of a large recreational facility. I work for an engineering firm who have been hired by a Town who owns the facility to oversee the Towns interest. We didnt design or engineer any part of the facility. Part of the design includes running a 200mm high...
The cul;vert is quite deep--the highway goes thru a draw at this point and its probably 12 feet from the invert of the culvert to the top of the asphalt on the road. Its a 30 inch diameter culvert. The slope is supposed to be 1%. Right now the supposed low end of the culvert is 5 inches higher...
A contractor bored and installed a 150 foot steel smooth walled culvert under a secondary higheway. The grade on the culvert is flowing the wrong way.The contractor is proposing the fix the problem by digging and exposing the high end of the culvert to the road and with a welding/cutting torch...
We are rough grading a large commercial site and have encountered some underground springs--water is bubbling up to the surface. The original ground in these areas was holding water and it was a slough. The contractor pumped the standing water and began removing the saturated ground with the...
I am a site inspector on a project where the contractor is presently rough grading the site. The native material is silty clay and sand.Most of the material is sand.The contractor is having a hard time passing compaction tests. He is useing a large sheeps foot packer to compact the lifts and to...
Workers are killed and injured all the time laying pipe. Trenches collapse, cables break lowering pipe into the trench, workers are run over by equipment, workers are overcome with toxic gas.It doesn't stop the industry from using the same metheods. In my province there is a governing...
In the area I work, construction specs are written by the jurisdiction covering the area where the construction is taking place. This is a peice of infrastructure which will eventually be turned over to a town. Each city and town has their own construction specs. The city I live in has a...
Biginch--the manufacturer of the pipe states that when testing their pipe one should refer to ASTM 2164. I contacted the manufacturer and they stated they don't recommend testing with air because of the potential danger, but they don't prohibit the use of air testing on their product. Their...
I am working on a cost estimate for a job the requires the installation of 100mm ductile iron pipe for a water line. In my area ductile iron pipe is very uncommon--pvc pipe is used 99.9% of the time.I have never worked on a job using ductile iron pipe and our firm has no records of jobs we have...
Thanks for your responses.A complication on this particular job is our firm is subcontracted to a prime contractor who works for the client. We designed the forcemain but the prime contractor wrote the contracts and hired the subcontractor to complete the installation.The prime contractor has a...
We are presently installing twin 16inch HDPE Dr17 forcemains --total length is 2 miles. They run from a lift station to a water treatment plant. The water treatment plant wont be up and running for at least another year.There is not a water supply near the site and if we were to pressure test...
Ok--I am going to throw an idea out there for feedback.
You have a dead calm pond where water is leaking at a significant rate from a relatively small hole. Would there not be sound coming from the leak? I remember working on a job where there was a leak in a sanitary force main and a specialist...
After periods of no rainfall, the pond water level holds at a particular elevation, approx. half way between the bottom of the pond and the desired normal water level (total depth of pond is 6m). You would think that the leak must be occurring at or above the stabilized water level. Someone...
