Construction Logistics & Safety Construction & Safety It s

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Construction Logistics Safety
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Construction Safety

• Its never too early to start thinking about
  construction logistics and site safetyespecially
  since we have to define much of the process for
  the EIS.
• Initial thoughts/questions to focus on
• Site Development, Excavation
• Equipment Delivery to Island, Site
• Site Logistics, Equipment Storage on Site
• General Construction Restrictions, Misc.
• Fire, Personnel Safety

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Site Development, Excavation

• Besides EIS, CDUP, what permits, permissions
  required before construction begins
• e.g. State DEQ permits for sewage treatment
  system?
• Others (List from AF and ATST EA documents)
• Excavated soil (2000-5000 cubic yards!)
• Where to place/re-locate?
• Extent of direction/correction by Cultural
  Monitor?
• Fugitive Dust Control
• Availability of water
• Any special site-related issues on this
  requirement
• Methods Allowed
• Hydraulic hammer to break up big rocks
• Vibratory compaction
• Alternate compaction method (surcharge with soil
  or other weight)
• Consider early work packages for leveling
  utilities?

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Excerpt from overall schedule
HO major site work window (worst case)
has slipped6 mos.
critical connection
Not much slack in these -could end up on
critical path
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Site Prep Excavation Schedule
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Potential Sites(showing existing structures
and known restrictions)
Ahu
Air ForceFacility
AEOS
Coating Facility
Alternate (Reber)
ReberCircle
PanSTARRS 1
Primary(Mees)
FaulkesTelescope
main road
testtower
boundary linesof existing observatory property
200 ft.
Mees
0
100
200 ft.
north
archaeological features(in vicinity of proposed
sites)
Petrelburrows
Ahu
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Equipment Delivery

• Large Equipment Delivery to Maui
• Port of entry?
• Crane capacities?
• Storage areas near port?
• Stevedore, other unions?
• Sea-level and/or mid-mountain storage facilities
• Gemini required 2 acres for TMA alone!
• Road conditions from port to sea-level/mid-mountai
  n storage areas and summit
• Size restrictions (width, height, weight)
• E.g., bridges, overhead lines
• Park ranger shack _at_ summit
• Time of day restrictions of travel
• Light pollution from trucks early in morning,
  after sunset
• Bicyclists, tourists to summit
• Speed limits on site?

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Site AccessibilityAirport (5 hrs to LAX)
Commercial Center(1 hr 20 min to HO) Concrete
plants(1 hr 45 min to HO)Highways 37 377 (20
miles)Haleakala Highway (well-maintained paved
road - 25 mi)Haleakala ObservatoryAccess is
good compared to most other telescopes.
ATRCNew IfA Base
(45 min to HO)
Waiakoa LabIfA Base facility
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Deliveries, cont

• Special requirements for boxes of equipment,
  crates, equipment delivered to summit?
• Steam cleaning trucks, crates, etc prior to
  entrance to park?
• List of restricted items?
• Crate disposal, waste?
• Other?

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Site Logistics Storage on Site

• On-site storage of equipment?
• Lay-down and staging areas?
• Space for crane(s)?
• Off-limits areas on summit?
• Truck turnaround areas?
• Construction trailer areas?
• Waiting areas for concrete trucks, etc?

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General Construction Restrictions

• Any kind of construction lights okay?
• Radio usage okay on summit?
• Restricted frequencies?
• Noise restrictions?
• Crane restrictions (e.g., lowered at night)?
• Air Force/security concerns, restrictions?
• Other facilities traffic by/through our site?

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Culturally Related Restrictions

• Morning work prayers required?
• Groundbreaking ceremony
• When? (we already did geo-tech borings)
• Cultural monitor at site at all times?
• Cultural sensitivity training required of
  everyone? Workers, contractors, vendors,
  deliverers?
• Others that we should be aware of?

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Fire, Personnel Safety on Site

• Health checks for workers (e.g., high altitude)?
• Safety officer on site?
• What safety gear, equipment available on site?
• Crash truck? EMT supplies?
• Safety plan?
• Hazard logs at builders/vendors?
• Emergency respondersNational Park next door?
• Full response Kula area?
• Where is nearest hospital?
• Air Forcefacility has sprinklers?
• Air Force response capacity?
• Hot work permit program during construction? How
  to enforce, etc..
• Local alarms?
• Etc.

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Building Life Safety

• This will be largely per ATST and UH/IfA policy
  not enforced by any jurisdiction
• No local building department or zoning authority
  will review or inspect
• Codes to be used for building design
• International Building Code
• Local fire district requirements
• Department of Health requirements
• OSHA
• ADA Accessibility standards
• May have to invest in some outside
  inspection/safety professional for oversight
  during design construction.
• Liability and Insurance implications

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Building Dome Design - Timing

• Dome will likely be Design-Build
• Coordination with the building design will be
  tricky
• Construction delivery method for Support
  Buildings
• A.F. coating facility will be design-build
  contract. They feel it allows the contractor
  more creativity in dealing with the special site
  difficulties.
• How soon to begin A/E contract
• It has already been inconvenient not to have the
  availability of structural, civil electrical
  engineers
• Get basic foundation design done soon by a
  separate A/E? especially for pier enclosure
• How important or advantageous to have building
  design services by a Hawaiian A/E?
• Better sensitivities regarding local culture and
  sense about the local construction industry
• Better availability during construction
• Better PR for EIS process

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Red Hill
ATST at Mees Site
MAGNUM
A.F. AEOS
A.F. MSSC
Reber
PS-1
A.F. GEODSS
ZodiacalLight
Airglow
Solar-C
Utilities
Cosmic RayNeutronMonitor
Mees
A.F. Utilities
SLR-2000site
FaulkesTelescope
Aerial View from Southwest
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A.F. MSSC GEODSS
FAA DOE
A.F. AEOS
Utilities Neutron Mon.
FAALowSite
Mees
Solar-C
ReberCircle
Broadcast Antennae(private)
MAGNUM
PS-1
ATST at Mees Site
Aerial View from East
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• Summary of Comments from the Site Impact Review
  Meeting - Aug. 11-12, 05
• Contracting strategy discussion Having a
  general contractor is preferred, but may have to
  divide up into multiple work packages to reduce
  cost and to allow early work start right after
  construction funding.
• Advantages of having a local A/E may not be too
  compelling. Should probably keep RFP open to
  mainland firms like M3. Minimal M3 availability
  during Gemini construction was not a problem.
  Ability of Hawaiian firms to do competent
  observatory design may be in question. They do a
  lot of resorts, malls and other general
  commercial/institutional facilities. The key may
  be effective separation of the enclosure as a
  separate design and work package, keeping the SO
  Building pretty much a standard industrial
  building.
• Oversight of design and on-site inspection will
  not be by any local jurisdiction. Note Gemini
  opted for inspection by Hilo Building Dept., but
  so far Maui authorities have not expressed any
  such willingness. Insurance carrier may offer
  some plan review service maybe not extensive
  enough.
• Safety officer should be on site during all
  construction activities. Not a contractors
  person but a project person. Response from below
  (Kula) will not be prompt (as much as 2 hours?!).
  Consider having EMT trained (off-duty firemen)
  on site. Look into Hawaii OSHA requirements.
  Thorough safety plans are critical.
• Schedule for earthwork may be longer than
  necessary. Gemini did all earth concrete work
  in 6 mos. Working 7 days/week. Our schedule
  assumes 5-days a week with extra 2 days as
  contingency or unavoidable delay. IfA has
  several people Bret Simison David Hefner
  knowledgeable about construction logistics at HO.
  We should meet with them soon.
• PS-1 project is currently (during nesting season)
  doing major earthwork with only monitoring of
  burrows required. Impact of other environmental
  mitigations is generally not too burdensome.
  Steam cleaning only for vehicles that go
  off-road, morning prayers quick and not forced on
  anyone, sensitvity training for workers not
  drivers, instructions and corrections by site
  monitor fairly reasonable and minimal, etc.
• Trucking route from Kahului dock to HO should be
  checked out in full. Expected to be okay except
  maybe at ranger shack. Drop-off/staging/storage
  area at Kula facilities will be ample at HO
  very limited. Alternate route around back of AF
  is not possible. Main HO road can be blocked for
  hours (not days) at a time.
• No Gemini contractors were union (not even San
  Juan). Davis Bacon wages basically imposes the
  same premium labor cost anyway.