Holdfast Training Services Trial Blog

Wait all this time then 2 posts come along at the same time.

We are going to be installing a large transfer beam at the beginning of next week, this thing is going to be a 20 tonne beast, with next to no tolerance for line and level.  In order to try and give us the best chance of success we are using lengths of steel angle to act as a template for the holding down bolts (don’t ask me why, this was a decision that was reached between the fabricator and the consultant) the steel erecting team from the fabricators arrived on site today.  The project manager decided that his total involvement consisted of introducing the foreman to the steel erectors and then quietly slipping away so that once the general name exchanging and such had finished everyone just turned around and looked at me.  The setting out engineer had no idea what was going on and so apparently I became the one in charge, not a single person more senior that me visited that part of site for the rest of the day, after the fabricators had left.  However in my one trip back to the office to get some lunch I was asked an irrelevant question about brickwork, where do these people come from?