Importance of Project Leadership
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Samer ZawaydehMember for 18 years 2 months
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Hi PP,
I was at an interesting meeting at the other day, and we had a phone call coming from site that the project was put on hold. After the initial inquiries, we understand that the representative of the Owner comes to site and they have reservations on the dust and safety barrier around the excavation, so 5 upper management from the subcontractor side with 5 from the Main Contractor and 2 from the Client rush to site to see what is wrong.
2 hour wasted x 12 = 24 hours of heavy weights wasted because the Owner Rep #1 said hold the work due to something that was proved to be incorrect.
The instructions were being followed to the letter, and considerable time was wasted in excercising common sense that the situation is safe and the remark and the instruction that follow was incorrect.
Has anyone gone through something similar. Any recommendations.
With kind regards,
Samer
PS the situation was solved with facts at site. But it took hours of negotiations.
I was at an interesting meeting at the other day, and we had a phone call coming from site that the project was put on hold. After the initial inquiries, we understand that the representative of the Owner comes to site and they have reservations on the dust and safety barrier around the excavation, so 5 upper management from the subcontractor side with 5 from the Main Contractor and 2 from the Client rush to site to see what is wrong.
2 hour wasted x 12 = 24 hours of heavy weights wasted because the Owner Rep #1 said hold the work due to something that was proved to be incorrect.
The instructions were being followed to the letter, and considerable time was wasted in excercising common sense that the situation is safe and the remark and the instruction that follow was incorrect.
Has anyone gone through something similar. Any recommendations.
With kind regards,
Samer
PS the situation was solved with facts at site. But it took hours of negotiations.
2 replies
Oldest first- 0Mike Testro ·Hi Samer
I had a similar incident in Baghdad - I was involved as senior QS for the Japanese contractor building the Al Shaheed Monument.
One morning Saddam Hussein paid us a surprise visit in his helicopter - he jumped out and strode right across newly laid white terrazzo paving.
Apart from that his security guards closed the entire site for 8 hours.
The Japanese were very nervous about claiming compensation but I did put in a claim for lost production which was paid.
Part of the total was repair of the terrazzo and I submitted a daywork sheet for the Iraqi clerk of works to sign headed "Repair of damage caused by Presidential Incompetence" the poor man went white with fright and begged me to re write it. I did and he signed it.
In short you do have a valid claim for loss of production.
Best regards
Mike Testro
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