The project is stopped. Everybody is suspended with one weeks' notice and reduce the workforce 99%. The 1% left are the senior managers wondering how to save their posterior. It is mind-boggling that they are not prepared or trained for shut-down preparations to save the investment to date. If they persist down the current path there won't be anybody to stop the lake from the snow melt which cannot be drained because we have a surface clay-capped layer and no pumps to put the stormwater in the newly-constructed and operational ponds just mere feet away. The plant is not cathodically protected, the uninstalled pumps are freezing in the laydown areas, the tankpads are unprotected, steel structures are not safe, the list is endless.
I've officially given up shouting for attention and joined the downtrodden, trickling out of the plant gate. Surely, the shut-down team should be an opportunity for engineering to tell construction what to do, but there's nobody standing up and I am just a contractor. Sigh. When it comes to restarting the project, they are going to waste time and millions. It will be checked then instead of collecting that information now and having a maintenance crew. I blame the bean counters and the lack of a spine in the engineer. It is a neverending tale really.
Not the first time, not the last, just another missed chance for smart work.
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