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Handling difficult people         Beaver Run Water Treatment Plant I pray for them.  Not everyone that rubs me the wrong way. But every once in a while, I'll pray for them.  I was involved in building a 25-million-dollar Water treatment plant outside Pittsburgh.  We contracted with a Concrete Trade that sent a cantankerous malcontent superintendent named Paul to our job site.  I was involved with him from time to time as we purchased separately the reinforcing steel for this project.  We bought 25 thousand tons of rebar from a firm in Pittsburgh, and I coordinated the deliveries and oversaw the correct placement with his rodbusters.  One day I was reviewing the rebar installation of a slab for the clarifier bay and noticed that the Rodbusters had installed the wrong stack of rebar.  I notified the rodbusters foreman. He stated that Paul had told them to place this rebar. I would have...

The Design-build method on your construction project versus the traditional Design, bid, build method. Project: Huntsman Chemical Computer Building Addition, Conroe, Texas  I met Huntsman in mid-August and reviewed their completed drawings for the project.   They required that their project be complete by December 1 st . Their design showed a 44’ x 40’ painted block addition, one story along with bar joists and a structural steel deck with poured concrete and a gable steel frame roof with metal roof panels.                                  Bar joists with metal deck and poured concrete deck. METAL BAR JOISTS SCHEDULE PROBLEM Bar joists require a 10–12-week delivery after the shop drawing review. This puts the delivery in early December. Their design is a 7-month schedule project, not the 3 months that they desired. REDESIGN OF THE PROJECT TO A STRUCTURAL STEEL FRAMING I discussed with them t...