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Power Plant Demolition Masterclass

September 10, 2024 | Online

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If you are unable to attend at the scheduled date and time, we make recordings available to all registrants for seven days after the event

Closing fossil fuel generation sites are complicated projects for all involved. For the asset teams and individuals that might be new to the process, as well as more experienced individuals, this program will provide applicable knowledge and lessons that can be applied immediately to your own projects.

This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the markers of a successful project. Participants will explore the steps in the vetting and selection of bidders, specification creation to minimize scope changes, project planning and quality assurance and quality control. Register for this course today and gain invaluable tools in power plant closure and cleanup.

Learning Outcomes

• Recognize the steps in proper vetting of bidders
• Examine how to perform background checks on contractors
• Gain how to review insurance coverage, licenses, and financial ability of contractors
• List how to review contractor’s means and methods to perform the work
• Discover the components of the decontamination scope
• Examine the complexities of asbestos, universal waste, and other regulated and hazardous waste
• Review what the deactivation scope is
• Define what the demolition scope is made up of
• Examine ideas and lessons in site restoration
• Recognize what was learned in a failed demolition pull
• Discover how a failed method changed the planning of the project
• Review what makes up quality assurance and quality control

Agenda

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

9:00 a.m. – 4:15 p.m. Central Time

Contractor Vetting for Selection of Bidders

• How to conduct a background check
  • How to quickly check OSHA records and violations- EPA, OSHA etc.
  • TRIR and Experience Modification Rates (EMR) discrepancies and verification
  • Insurance Coverages and Amount
  • Licensed demolition contractor
  • Experience – type of work to be performed by the contractor
  • Project listing – List of projects with contact names and phone numbers
  • Financial ability – Does the company have the financial ability to handle a project of this size
  • Bonding- company can obtain a Performance and Payment Bond
  • Means and Methods to perform the work
  • Project staff and backgrounds

Specifications Development to Address Expensive Scope Gaps

• Decontamination Scope – How to identify adequately and then thoroughly confirm quantities
  • Asbestos
  • Universal waste
  • Other regulated and hazardous waste
• Deactivation Scope – Who and how is this best approached from a safety and cost perspective
  • Cold, dark and dry
  • Line breaking and air gapping
  • D&D nomenclatures, e.g., green go’s and red stays
• Defining Demolition Scope
  • Existing grade or final grade?
  • Pros and cons of caping, filling or daylighting large diameter
    • Underground utilities
    • Circulating water conduits
    • Conveyor and other tunnels
    • Intake and discharge bulkhead or coffer dam and remove
  • Site Restoration and End State advice

What Does World-Class Work Planning Look Like

• Two-Unit Boiler Pull Lessons Learned
  • Attempted pull of two boiler units simultaneously was unsuccessful
  • Root cause analysis performed of the unsuccessful pull and the
  • Lessons learned for pulling heavy structures
  • Appropriate engineering analyses
  • Pulling equipment configuration
  • Quality Assurance and Quality Control
  • Same walkover approach was unsuccessful due to lack of QA/QC
  • Root cause analysis performed of the unsuccessful pull and the
  • Lessons learned for pulling lighter or any structures –
• Appropriate Quality Assurance and Quality Control (QA/QC)
  • By a SME i.e., someone that knows what to look for as in the earlier example the utility team had several years and D&D power plant projects under their belt  
  • Plan the work, work the plan
  • If it’s unsafe for us to inspect, then it’s unsafe any more work to be preformed
  • The dozens of various D&D methods may require other SME’s – no one knows it all and if you don’t have several years and D&D power plant projects under your belt, you need your own SME and should never allow a contractor to fill a QA/QC role on high-risk D&D activities   
• Using the correct qualified personnel for the job –
  Don’t use your electrician or power plant operators or PE’s for these QA/QC roles on higher risk D&D activities, as these are ingredients for power plant D&D fatalities