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The Burgher of TO
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Just a little accuracy note, if you run a crew 12 hours a day, 7 days a week, you actually need to pay double time on weekdays for any shift longer than 8 hours. That means 84 hours of labour actually costs the equivalent of 128. 128 hours, at $40/hr, for a crew of 90 men would put you closer to $450,000 a week payroll, not counting crane rental (a crane that size is costing them a couple thousand a day, easy), boom rentals (they probably have a dozen zoom booms there), backcharges, and fines.
The other thing that's going to be interesting are the deficiencies. What I've heard is that the design is awful, and there's big gaping holes in the air seal in some places, especially down in the gulleys where the crystals meet. My guess is that once they finish they're going to have to go back and tear it apart so that they can get in there to fix it.
Basically, I'd say there's not a chance in hell that they're going to make anything on the ROM, and in all likelihood I'd say they're bleeding bad right now. The word going around is that the contractor has had enough with Toronto, and they're never going to bid anything here again (the only other job they've done in Toronto, the Opera House, was another disaster). Given that they're taking such a hit, and given that they never want to work here again anyways, I'm kind of curious how much worse things need to get before they just say to hell with it and walk away.
The other thing that's going to be interesting are the deficiencies. What I've heard is that the design is awful, and there's big gaping holes in the air seal in some places, especially down in the gulleys where the crystals meet. My guess is that once they finish they're going to have to go back and tear it apart so that they can get in there to fix it.
Basically, I'd say there's not a chance in hell that they're going to make anything on the ROM, and in all likelihood I'd say they're bleeding bad right now. The word going around is that the contractor has had enough with Toronto, and they're never going to bid anything here again (the only other job they've done in Toronto, the Opera House, was another disaster). Given that they're taking such a hit, and given that they never want to work here again anyways, I'm kind of curious how much worse things need to get before they just say to hell with it and walk away.