Wednesday June 4, 2008

Daily Project Report
Weather: Sahara
Temperature: 83
Work Completed today: We poured first section of walls in collection pit. Installed wall forms for more walls in tunnel #1. Met with Chafiq and Backfill contractor. Backfill should start next week. Aziz took documents to the police station to legalize residency for crew.

Tuesday June 3, 2008

Daily Project Report
Weather: Warm and Windy
Temperature: 82
Work Completed Today: Set forms for walls in collection pit. Had inspection by SOCOTEC. Talke with SOCOTEC about expansion joints. Poured 1/2 mud slab for tunnel #2.
Materials Delivered: #20 bar from Gilfarmer
Visitors: Electrical grounding guy from CIMAR and SOCOTEC

Monday June 2, 2008

Daily Project Report
Weather: Warm and Sunny
Temperature: 85
Work completed Today: Set forms for more walls on tunnel #1. Tied Steel in collection pit walls. Met with Chafiq and Talbi. told them I was not pleased with how our floor on tunnel #3 turned out and if it wasn't acceptable I would remove it. Continued removing mud slab on tunnel #3.

Materials Delivered: #16 bar from Gilfarmer.
Visitors: Talbi and Chafiq

Saturday May 31, 2008

Daily Project Report
Weather: Warm very windy
Temperature: 80
Work completed Today: Continued forming walls on Collection pit. Unloaded rebar.
Materials Received: #25 bar from Davum

Friday May 31 2008

Daily Project Report

Weather: Sunny

Temperatrue:80

Work Completed Today: Wrecked forms on invert for Tunnel #3. Wrecked forms for walls on tunnel #1. Cleaned up around tunnel #1. Installed forms on walls of collection pit.

Assembled forklift. Removed steel from second half of invert tunnel #3. We will redo mud slab which is at the wrong elevation.

Equipment parts: located and purchased new key for CAT forklift.

Thursday May 29 2008

Daily Project Report
Weather: Warm and Windy
Temp: 80
Work Completed Today: Poured invert for Tunnel #3. Our forms moved a little on this pour which affected our elevations. The power screed dept losing electronics and getting off grade. We ended up screeding by hand. Not the best floor we've done. Finish is good, it is not very flat. Wall pour went good. A couple of blowouts where our locals missed the snap ties with their pins, but cleaned those up.

Materials Delivered: #12 bar from Gilmarfar
Visitors: Mr. Chafiq

No pictures today. Cindy was sick.

Wednesday May 28, 2008

Daily Project Report
Weather: Windy
Temp: 78
Work completed today: Set inside forms for wall on Tunnel #1. Unloaded containers
Owner/Engineer directives: Fez from CIMAR.
SOCOTEC inspected the invert for tunnel #3 and walls for Tunnel #1.
Equipment Delivered: Container with forms and container with Forklift arrived. 1 Truck of dowels from DAVUM. Repairing the Big hammer drill.

Unloading the forklift and putting it back together.

Tuesday May 27, 2008

Daily Project Report
Weather: Very Windy
Temperature: 75 degrees
Work Completed Today: Finished forms on Tunnel #3 (1st half) of invert. Set forms for walls on collection tunnel. Excavated more on mud slab for tunnel #2.
Visitors: Marco from Italy Forming the break in the floor.

working on the trough in tunnel #1

Excavating the mud slab again on tunnel #2.

Monday May 26, 2008

Daily Project Report
Weather: windy
Temperature: 78

Work Completed Today: Wrecked forms on Invert #1 and cleaned up debris. Tied steel in walls of Tunnel #1. El Abassy says containers are in Marrakech, will be here tomorrow. Started setting wall forms in pit. Surveyors checked tunnel #1 for location and elevation. Started to set floor forms in tunnel 3#.

Owner/Engineer directives provided: Delivered expansion joint detail to CIMAR to give to SOCOTEC for approval.

Equipment: Bought 3' level, drill bits, garden sprayer, etc.

Visitors: Mr. Chafiq, Mr. Talbi and CIMAR Safety Rep. Turned in all requested paperwork.

Mr.'s Talbi, Chafiq and Safety man from CIMAR.

Saturday May 24, 2008

Daily Project Report
Weather: Warm
Temperature: 80
Work Completed Today: Tunnel #1 - Removed end and block-out forms along with all braces on invert forms. Unloaded one container.

Materials Delivered: K-span machine, hoop bender, laser screed.

Friday May 23, 2008

Daily Project Report
Weather: Windy/sandstorm
Temperature: 90
Work Completed Today: Arrived at site at 5:00 for our scheduled 5:30 pour. Poured invert for tunnel #1. Concrete was 1 1/2 hours late and very slow. Poure 253 meters. Last truck arrived at 3:30. We finished hand trowling the floor in a wind/sandstorm at 7:00 p.m. Could not use trowel machine. The Hot wind and sand was drying the surface ahead of the bottom. Finish is okay. Better than the collection tunnel where we used the power trowel. Finished dowels in invert for Tunnel #3. Excavated more for new elevations on tunnel #2.
Engineer Directives Provided: Received detail for expansion joint from ES2.
Equipment delivered: Received air shipment of snap ties, hardware and long vibrator arrived today around 6:00 p.m.
Other notes of interest/visitors: Surveyors

Remember, you can click on any of these pictures to enlarge them.








We now have a Moroccan "roach coach" come by our site every day. This kid pushes his cart about 2 miles to get here at 6:30 in the morning.






We heard an explosion and looked behind us to see them blasting at the quarry on the hill behind the Jihadist school.





We couldn't use the troweling machine and we had to hand trowel the finish.

Thursday May 22, 2008

Daily Project Report
Weather: Nice in the A.M. Warm,Windy and lots of sand in the P.M.
Teperature: 85
Work Completed Today: Had inspection on tunnel #1 invert. Everything Good. M. El Hani from SOCOTEC told me we would have to have some complete expansion joints in the tunnels. Mr. Fez and the surveyors were out again. Said our collection tunnel was okay, but not exactly the correct elevation because we were using an incorrect benchmark elevation. We will pour all tunnel floors as high to stay consistent.
Did you talk to office/project manager today?: Yes
Owner Engineer directives provided: Expansion joint in all tunnels complete break including rebar, concrete, and steel lock. They want a detail from ES2.
Visitors: Mr. Chafiq, M. El Hani, Mr. Fez

Still setting elevations.

Blue Men on Tunnel #3

Tunnel #1

Tunnel #3


Our Lunch room. (And sometime's Aziz's office)

Fixing a minor burn.

Our little mascot who hangs around the job. Cody calls her "Dome" and Cindy calls her "Gitmo".

A look at both tunnels .

Wednesday May 21, 2008

Wednesday Morning at 6:30 Tunnels # 1 & #3

At 1:00 in the afternoon.

Daily Project Report
Weather: Windy/sand
Temperature:85 deg. F.
Safety Issues: Is it safe to buy camel meat from a roadside vendor?
Work Completed Today: Tied dowells in invert for arch tunnel #1. Tied second mat floor steel in tunnel #3.
Signed and Notarized paperwork for formation of company.
Surveyors gave us new reference points in excavation. checked our collection pit.
Did you talk to Project Manager/Office Today?: Yes
Visitors: Fez and Chafiq