Terminal five is a large infrastructure project involving over 60 contractors, 16 major projects and 147 sub-projects on a 260ha site. With such a project BAA realised that if the projects were to be built on time and within budget that a unique approach would be required.
The T5 Agreement is the result and is a legally binding contract between BAA and its key suppliers. Through the agreement BAA accepts that it carries all of the risk for the construction project. This allows the contractors to concentrate on the project and solving problems rather than avoiding possible litigation for problems arising and time delays
Seems to have worked, rather than everyone trying to blame each other!
We had something *similar* last week happen to us - digging off a new crossover into a site, we were digging around 4 x BT ducts, 2 x streetlighting cables and a water supply - we hit and snapped a small streetlighting cable, right where we weren't expecting it.......nuff said...
It was right next to where a certain company had moled *something* in - and the damage was caused by the mole and not our bucket. That was going to be our story when it came to the paperwork stage - in the end it was repaired under "Storm Damage" - phew!!!!
That day, the weather was definitely on our side, although I was soaked through and nearly got blown over countless times!
Felt sorry for the power boys, they looked dog tired, they'd been out all night (high winds etc)
RW Gale Ltd - Civils & Surfacing Contractors based in Somerset
There's some new legislation due later this Sporing that is supposed to enable the utility boys to "work together" in the same hole, instead of each of them having to dig their own hole 10 mins after the previous one has been backfilled by an alternative utility term contractor.
When we used to do the site civils for new housing developments, one of my pet hates was the way in which gas, lecky, telecoms and water all insisted on having their own service trenches alongside my newly constructed and pristine carriageway. By the end of the 80s, most of the utility companies were happy to give us contractors free ducting and an invite to the Christmas dinner if we'd install ducting and access chambers for them as part of the road construction works. Lovely work: one trench, a metre depp, water inj the bottom, backfilled with sand to 600mm deep, then gas and lecky, backfill with another 150mm of sand, and then the telecoms. All in one trench, slightly off-set so that future access would never be an issue, all mapped and recorded, and done without knocking out any of my kerbs or chewing up my new blacktop!
Tony McC wrote:There's some new legislation due later this Sporing that is supposed to enable the utility boys to "work together" in the same hole, instead of each of them having to dig their own hole 10 mins after the previous one has been backfilled by an alternative utility term contractor.
We can only live in hope!
RW Gale Ltd - Civils & Surfacing Contractors based in Somerset
tried suggesting just that down here 20 years ago... 'wHAT A GREAT IDEA THEY SAID... WE WILL IMPLEMENT THAT IN THE NEXT FIVE YEARS... DID THEY HECK! The utilities are still chasing each other round and churning the newest laid street up for a pass time.Totally daft iyam:(
general builder, maintenance engineer, gas and plumbing installations, extensions etc
