Holdfast Training Services Trial Blog

The last few weeks have been hectic, subcontractors have been difficult to manage and we have invested a vast amount of time programming every room to give all subcontracts strict deliverable dates.  This has included tons of work shops and study groups and now we can see the light as it will soon all be added to the main contractual programme to bring The New Children’s Hospital (NCH) back on target, loosing three months of delay in seven months of work, back on target by Christmas!!

However I have done a lot of work with the Power On Programme which needed to be changed to Power Available as Power On portrayed the wrong message, it basically means power will be available to be used but in matter of fact will only be on the HV side. This process has included inspections of the LV switch boards attached photo below there are six for the three substations and the UPS boards are yet to be built, and we started installing the HV switch gear yesterday.

The different colour are for essential and Non-essential. The front two boards are for the Northern Substation and Plant Substation is at the back, I re-visited yester day and they are a lot further ahead looking at Factory Acceptance Tests on the 6 June and delivery on the 9 June.

The next challenge is the Corridor of Death which is slowly progressing and I am trying to get the subcontractors to utilise the model which they are contractually to do as much as possible. We have had to move one Fire Hydrant Pipe which has been in location since last October as Fredon Mechanical Services Subcontractor modelled there pipe wrong and did not even model the brackets themselves. The corridor is becoming an increasing concern and we called in the director of the main problem child subcontractor yesterday to try and resolve some design and shop floor problems. This meeting will hopefully see change and progress watch this space for an update!

To prove we do use modelling attached is an area I am working on at the moment, the interface between corridor and main service riser.

We have also started to see progress in all the Plant rooms and these should start to progress over the next few weeks……