Ann: Mt Cattlin Update-GXY.AX, page-173

Being a General contractor I find it amusing how many weigh in on the "weather" delays. In 20 years of running my own construction business, and working "in the weather" every day, I've learned to put language in my contracts that gives me weather days. Specific to wind speeds, my crane will shut off and wind vane at 25 mph wind speed. Specific to rain, OSHA will issue fines for working in wet & slippery conditions, or unprotected electrical cords. Site conditions, heavy equipment tear up any surface moistened by the rain. (Ever tried to move 100 ton crane on a construction site after a little rain?)
I had a project building 6 Apartments in Casper, Wyoming (US) for the oil & gas boom a few years back. The roof on one building had a 1 week schedule. It took 6 weeks. The wind blew everyday in excess of 25 mph, along with rain and snow.
Point being, weather has the biggest impact on my crews performance and ability to hold schedules. When your office is outside Mother Nature is in control.

Now that being said, I spent a lot of time documenting each day's weather and how it had impacted the day's work. Those reports were compiled and turned in each week to the owners. As many suggest lack of timely information is more frustrating than the actual delays. Information in a timely manner keeps my clients happy even when the schedule gets pushed. Because they know what I know, they see what I see.

I don't want to be too critical of GXY management for not conveying the delays and other time sensitive information. Simply because I deal with it every day. In most cases it takes time to get your arms around the delay days, engineering mistakes in blue prints, material delays, parts shipped out wrong or missing from suppliers and on and on. You only get so many chances to go back and competently realign your schedule with the board room. You had better have your ducks in a row and have dates figured out that are achievable with delay days baked in. I feel that they took the time to do this and projected dates that they can hit. We will see.

To me the improved mica screening and double capacity are going to pay back 100 fold over the years compared to 3-4 months production now. It's a no brainier trade off. Top that off with Mgmt stepping up with their own $$ and I'm a buyer.

Now drive the SP up so I can work inside