[Richard Beale]

The biggest mistake was to not have the master P&ID stick file in the piping area, so that the pipers were made aware immediately of the proposed process design changes. I’m surmising, but I’m willing to bet that this little omission has caused some design and stress rework and possible schedule delays. I’m also quite sure that not all of the changes are necessary nor approved by the project management team. At the least, if I were the piping lead, I’d be speaking with the project manager to firstly secure approvals before making any piping changes that result from these new mark-ups, and secondly to make it clear that I’ll be trending all rework that affects my budgeted hours. Also, while I would do my best for it not to be the case, that I’m not going to be responsible for any schedule delays that may result from this.