Holdfast Training Services Trial Blog

The mechanical subcontractor is the worst performing subcontractor on site!! They have today after three months of work have realised they have did not design their expansion of their chilled water pipes correctly. This is causing huge problems as currently the system is a fully Victalic system and now they want to weld every change of direction. Considering a large amount has already been hydraulically tested, signed off and lagged, with cable tray below this is going to be major re-works. Also going through the programme with them a completion date of their plant room which will supply chilled water to the Central Communications Room CCR2 an essential part of the hospital, which has a hand over date of December fully operattional ie it has chilled water running to it, now has a completion date of mid feb……not good.

On a positive note the Power Available programme which has been running since April is nearly complete, we have all three substations ready for commissioning, I have attended all the Factory Acceptance Tests (FAT) for the equipment, we have had some huge logistical problems with some of the larger switch boards. Overall has been a very good experience. We are having large problems with the Client changing its mind and also delaying works by

sitting on very small decisions, it is frustrating how so many people don’t like making decisions and we have been trained to make decisions. We are now getting into the real detailed design of how everything operates and it is clear that the detailed design is truly lacking. There are fundamental parts of systems that have not been thought about correctly, for example the Reverse Osmosis water, chilled water to CCR2 (no mechanical separation) and the whole BMS interface with equipment. this is just to name a few, the great side its keeping me very very busy, with thinking about design, functionability on site and cost.

I have also been responsible for the Northern Green Space as a lad was a way for 5 weeks, this involved all the connections to and from the building for the two fire tanks and two rain water tanks. This brought around a new dimension to works as I had a new set of dead lines set by the infra guys outside, who I was pushing as we wanted to run the Syfonic drainage to the tanks instead of flooding the basement. Overall busy times and the pressure is on as the completion date of 30 June 2015 is dramatically looming and there are some fundamental things going wrong, mainly the mech subbie…

On a positive note spring is here it was a lovely 25 the other day and is warmer at night now, Hannah and I had a great weekend at Shark Bay which is such an incredible place, but a 10 hour drive!!