SHORES MDS was contracted to verify the location of foundations prior to a critical pour.

During this task, the monuments were verified and the foundations checked.

It was discovered that the General Contractor had used the wrong benchmark values which meant that the monuments were set in the incorrect eastern and northern locations.

It was also found that the elevations had inconsistent errors. If the pour had taken place the prefabricated columns would not be set correctly and would have horizontal alignment errors when bolting up the beams.

If the foundations were poured with the errors in place then if the General Contractor used the columns as a dimensional reference when setting equipment, piping or anything else then the design locations would be off and there would be installation errors throughout the project.

A project was to assist in the heavy lift of some vessels during construction. The purpose of the survey was to verify that there would be no errors during the lift that would increase the time on the hook.

SHORES MDS surveyed the equipment that was to be lifted, the foundations of the equipment and any possible clashes that could interfere with the lift.

The survey discovered that the foundation was not level and shims needed to be set, the bolt pattern on the equipment differed from that on the foundation and there was a crash caused by the installation of a beam that was installed prior to the lift.

Doing the survey prevented an extended time of the equipment being on the hook or the possibility of the equipment having to be set back on the ground.

The survey also ensured that no worker was placed in the line of fire making real-time modifications and that the vessel was set perfectly aligned ensuring that the misalignment did not have an impact during the product manufacturing process.

SHORES MDS was requested to perform verification of tie points and pipe routing prior to a hook up of an existing unit to the new unit that was constructed.

The hook up had an aggressive timeline for completion. SHORES MDS surveyed the tie points, the routing of the piping and performed an as-built survey of the piping that had been prefabricated.

It was found that multiple tie points had been installed significantly out of position, there were dimensional errors on the drawings, flanges on the drawings was the incorrect rating, there were clashes and a number of the prefabricated piping was incorrectly fabricated.

SHORES MDS reported these errors to the client which caused an investigation. The investigation concluded that no clash detection had been run in the original design model, the installation contractor had used old drawing revisions and that no QC had been adequately done on the piping as they had been field fabricated.

In using dimensional control, the project prevented rework during the outage which would have extended the outage and had a significant impact on the budget.