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Memories
I was just perusing through some of these posts and started thinking back on a few of my more memorable construction projects.
Several years ago the firm I worked at was hired to trace piping through a fairly large petroleum refinery. Long story short, this led to stake out of 4 new “units” to be built. I spent a month laying out a complex compressor foundation that contained many anchor bolts at varying elevations. Checked and rechecked everything. After pour, the foundation had to cure for quite some time and I moved on to other projects.
One early morning I received a call from the super to get to the site ASAP. Something was terribly wrong with our foundation layout. My heart sank and I was almost sick as I made the 45 minute drive.
Upon arrival, I performed an as-built survey on every anchor bolt and elevation change. I compared this to the prints and everything was in tolerance. The super told me there was no way and that the compressor just would not fit. I asked to see the compressor plans and Voila! We built a foundation for a different type of compressor! Cost the engineers major $$$.
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