Pipeline job specification - requirements
A complete, accurate, well thought-out specification is key to any pipeline job.
Students learn the elements of a Pipeline Job Specification, why they're important, and how to get them right.
Lessons include:
- Permits
- Notices
- Right of ingress and egress
- Relation of parties
- Inspection
- Contractor's responsibility to inform himself
- Change in specifications
- Subcontractors
- Workmanship
- Construction progress and persecution of work
- Equipment repairs and replacements
- Cooperation between contractor and motor carrier
- Public relations
- Safety regulations and precautions
- Crossings of railroads, highways, and roads with equipment
- Repair of public or private property
- Archaeological objects
- Maintenance work during construction
- Grounding and bonding adjacent to power transmission lines
- Care and handling of materials furnished by company
- Construction damage claims for which contractor is liable
- Contractor's claim against company
- Extra work provisions
- Shutdown provisions
- Move-arounds and skips in construction
- Payment of contractor's invoices
- Breakdown of pipeline construction cost errors, omissions, or discrepancies in the contract
- Payment of taxes