An equipment manufacturing company was designing a high-pressure gas test facility in an area that had noise sensitivity issues. This test facility required air pressure relief valves to protect the equipment. Due to the high pressure of the system the calculated relief velocities exceeded the sound barrier and therefore had to be sent through a silencer that did not impede the flow of the relief stream. Calculations were performed that met both the relief requirements and the noise requirements.
Category: Compliance
Owner’s Representative
I performed duties as an Owner’s Representative for a large manufacturer of building products in a multi-state product liability lawsuit. I investigated the issues and assisted with the development of the scope of work which later became a model for over $500,000,000 in claims. I also assisted with the settlement negotiations of large home builders. I assisted with the negotiation and selection of the final General Contractor. I helped negotiated fees and incentives to streamline the entire process. Once the process began, I inspected houses for verification. I reviewed the contractor’s cost estimates and verified that the scope of work met the model agreement. As the work progressed, I review payment requests from the General contractor and reviewed change orders requests.
Reestablishment of Clear Water Sewer
A chemical manufacturing plant had two sewer systems, a storm sewer and a process sewer that were in the past combined into a single sewer. Years later, added development caused the combine flow of the sewer exceed the design capacity of the treatment system during some storm events.
An investigation of the feasibility of separating at least a portion of the storm sewer was conducted. As no as-built copies of the complete sewer system were available, each manhole and source had to be mapped out.
After a complete update of the sewer maps, it was discovered that a neighboring property that was allowed to tie into the system also recently built a large warehouse that tied into the system. It was this stream, that was diverted to a new storm sewer system.