Days thus far

So Thursday we continued to do work. The days are starting to blend together so I will try my best to post every day from here on out. That is doubtful to happen but it is good to hope. My job basically is to shadow the lead inspector and assist him in anyway possible. I have so far taken the duty of doing all the FIR's which are field inspection reports on all of the bid items to make sure that ODOT will accept them. Hardly ever does this become an issue but I am in charge of that because if something goes wrong we have something to fall back on. My daily reports for the project will be reviewed by the lead inspector so it is really good to pay attention to detail and make sure you over exaggerate things to make an impression. The weather was supposed to get bad Friday so the contractor did the best it could to met their weekly goals. Some of those goals were finishing the storm drainage from one inlet to the other inlet which they did and marking centerline for subgrade of the road with hubs so the road later next week could be checked by surveyors.

Friday it of course rained. I spent most of the day in the office working on pay notes for the bid items. How the contractor gets paid monthly is by the amount of bid items they install. They give us the report and we write up the pay note. That is my job. So that kept me busy. Another thing is taking a lot of pictures of the site so we have something to fall back on if something goes wrong. So I uploaded the pictures to the computer and filed them. Along with all of the paperwork, I make copies of everything just in case and since I am not paying for the paper why not.

Today I was out on the site the first half of the day by myself. This was kinda boring because I didn't have really any direction to start with so I had to make myself busy. It is hard when other utility companies come up to you and ask you questions and you have no idea. In the end it all worked out. One downside to the project we found out today was the 18 inch storm pipe they installed last week didn't meet specifications with compaction. Since ODOT is in charge of the job they have different standards and specifications are always changing so it was to bad to see this happen. Now they have to dig up the 3/4 minus and recompact everything which throws them out for a loop. We are nearing the end of the storm drainage installation on the first phase of the project so I look forward to seeing it complete.

This week I am supposed to be getting some action on some asphalt paving so I am looking forward to that. I will most likely be a night shift but this weather has to change for anything to happen. Anyways, I hope to keep you all posted with the progress. I hope to post pictures of the plans to people have an idea what I have to look at and translate to real life situations. Till next time.