Knapheide Reinforced Crane Bodies To Withstand Tough Working Conditions

Crane Bodies from Knapheide are versatile enough to work in almost any industry. From one application to the next, the Knapheide Crane Body continues to exceed the expectations of our customers.

Knapheide's Crane Body line is versatile enough to withstand everything from light to heavy duty working environments.  Our 30,000 ft.-lb., 38,000 ft.-lb. and 60,000 ft.-lb. Crane Bodies are designed to provide enough storage while boasting the capacity to lift your maximum sized loads.  Whatever your application may be, municipal, construction, heavy equipment maintenance, Knapheide has the right Crane Body for you.


Here's an example of the major features of the 30,000 ft.-lb 30J Knapheide Crane Body:

Rugged 14 gauge two-sided A-40 galvanneal steel body shell

• Crane compartment is reinforced to support up to a 30,000 ft-lb. crane
• Torsion box understructure design strengthens floor to resist flexing
• Compartment tops and backs (cargo area) have 1/8” tread plate overlays to withstand jobsite abuse
• Knapheide’s exclusive “return flange” floor design provides support for side compartments, adds floor strength and eliminates a rust-prone exposed seam between floor and side compartments
• Double shell, 20 gauge two-sided A-40 galvanneal steel hat section reinforced doors for durability and long life
• Thick automotive bulb-type neoprene door seals protect compartment contents from the outside elements
• All stainless steel continuous hinges for security and paddle-activated, rotary style latches for durability
• Interior light guards to protect your lights from cargo abuse
• 250lb. capacity adjustable divider shelves
• Complete immersion in Knapheide’s electrodeposition prime paint system for superior corrosion resistance

And. . . don't forget the options that make it work better:

Outrigger Package

Master Locking System

and Codeable lock

DLH Crane Bumper

Cable Steps

7-Drawer Cabinet

DL Crane Bumper

LED Light Kit

And that's just to name a few of the more popular options. We can have a custom body built for you if you need. Give West Coast Truck Equipment a call at 916-376-0690 and let us tailor the perfect body at the perfect price for you.

Construction Consultants Help Against Construction Claims

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On the construction web page, the waste of time and supplies, and even damage to property is a frequent, often daily occurrence.

Nobody can prevent natural forces that destroy the site, but construction delays caused by the contractors' negligence, or even individual injury and loss of materials can be avoided or resolved. Rarely is a webpage maintained perfectly with out any difficulties, so you have to have an individual on your side fighting for your rights, ensuring that all the other parties are working as agreed.

When you are working with many contractors and sub-contractors such as plumbers, electricians, carpenters and other individuals to total a project, it is not uncommon to encounter problems that could form the basis of construction claims. This indicates that a prudent provider must seek construction claims consulting to protect their interests.

A consultant can represent your interests in case you need to have to file a claim against another person or yet another party files a lawsuit against your provider. Consultants in this field function to establish the strength of claims, give consideration to the selections, defend your business or assert your claims. Here are just some of the items a construction solicitor or construction consultant can do for you

Analyze delays

A construction claims consultant evaluates the cause of delays in projects to figure out legal responsibility and carries out monetary analysis to estimate the amount the delay will cost. Clearly, the consultant should certainly be familiar with project management within the construction industry, with planning technique, and the nuances of distinct experts who participate in the project.

Assess damages

Consultants also evaluate and estimate damages involved due to project delays, injuries, errors on the job and much more. A delay, injury or even lost or delayed delivery of materials creates a ripple effect in any project. These can mean far more delays and additional expenses. The consultant can help decide the extent of any such losses which will form the basis of a claim for damages.

Decide Breakdown and Suggest Corrective Action

A consultant with construction claims experience need to be able to identify why a delay or breakdown happened and then produce a workable solution to remedy the situation. The consultant need to be familiar with the present construction laws such as creating codes and standards, and capable of recognizing deficiencies in design and supplies. They may well also provide project management experience to oversee the completion of a project.

Arbitration and Litigation

A consultant with construction claims experience could possibly also supply a professional, unbiased viewpoint should their expertise be required for arbitration and litigation. Engineering and architectural firms may possibly benefit from this type of consultant as can governmental agencies, contractors and construction firms. Having an individual like a construction claims consultant represent your interests is a smart move, in particular if you are not well-versed in the a lot of problems that can arise during construction projects.

Quality Management System for Construction Material Testing: A case study of Jupiter Inspection J/S Company

In recent years, there are many modern infrastructure which have been constructed with high-technology in Vietnam. However, the technical management is not caught up with the development of actual construction. Many serious accidents are still taken place causing numbers of deaths. Therefore, the management of construction work has been more and more taken into account. One of the solution for enhancement of construction work quality is to strengthen the inspection of construction quality by expanding the network of laboratory and auditing centers in all regions and industries in the country.

The activities of these laboratories have positively contributed to the construction quality and timely being into operation for the planning, design, construction and acceptance of such works as bridge and road, infrastructure, industrial and civil works. The development of civil industry, in general, and the activities of laboratories, in particular, are the reasons for the establishment of Quality Management System (QMS).

Ms. Nguyen Thi Vui made a case study, which objectives were to: (1) study QMS of company; and (2) evaluate the effectiveness of the QMS

Conclusions

Based on the result of the study, the quality management system in Jupiter Company was based on the ISO 9001:2008 requirement system. These are:

a) an organization structure, responsibility and authority in QMS which are regulated under the applied Law,

b) procedures of QMS (Operating procedure, Supporting procedure, and system management procedures),

c) resources for performing all activities in QMS,

d) document system, and

e) leadership representative of quality management system.

In general, although, there are some difficulties in the implementation of QMS, but still it has some remarkable effect such as follows:

1. Making the company manage the quality and operation of production line and trading activities systematically and in a planned method, in order to minimize and exclude all cost arising after inspection, as well as cost of maintenance and repeating of work.

2. Making company increase the efficiency and reduce cost of supply of means and facilities for people doing the job according to correct procedures from the beginning. As well as having close control, then the quantity of repeated work and cost for corrective actions carried out for defective products are limited, due to lack of control and reduction of consuming for time, material, human resource and money.

3. Increase the competition with other company due to the proper QMS. The company is now well qualified for bidding and might take part in many large and important projects such as Project for Expressway of HCM City – Long Thanh – Dau Giay; Ben Luc – Long Thanh Expressway; Trung Luong Can Tho Expressway. At the same time, it creates jobs for foreign countries such as TOA (Japan), BCOM (France), Hyder (UK), SMEC (Australia) Hanshin (Korea) Wilbur Smith (USA), and Nipon Koei (Japan).

The company’s prestige has improved in terms of quality security from the professional level of staff, document system, accuracy of equipments, making the test results with high accuracy. Besides, the progress of the project is always satisfactory with planned handing over schedule and then meeting the customer’s requirements as well.

In short, QMS is a correct solution, a unique way for the development and stability of the company. When QMS is supplied, internal force (organization) and external force (customer) will have mutual link in terms of benefits and responsibility, a solution for the benefits of many parties.

Her thesis abstract is copied and posted.

Abstract

The report expresses the key issues in Quality Management System (QMS) that known as the critical factor for organizations wants to develop and survive in the construction work.

This study, which refers to the theories and the standards system, has expressed the concept of quality in construction, the QMS in organization, requirements for QMS in construction materials testing and its benefits.

The study based on theoretical considerations as well as practical experience gained in the materials testing process. To ensure the correct identification of substances, to ensure that the processes undertaken.

Report the findings of a research study, which was undertaken to examine the underlying factors affecting the quality of a construction project. It also aims to identify factors that show a strong correlation to good quality performance. The aim of this report is to improve the quality of materials testing services and to define common quality assurance criteria.

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Insurance and Surety Bonds: A Case Study of Petrochemical, Oil and Gas Projects in Myanmar and Thailand

Human beings, business firm, organization, government and society want security but everybody and property cannot be fixed and established because risk is generally underlying those. Risks can be easily understood among the projects, but they are difficult to describe. Construction projects require many resources such as financial capital, human resources and material resources. It is very important to mitigate the construction risks, and complete the project with target time and necessary quality. Analyses of the various risks and understanding of these risks are very important to mitigate these risks. The insurance company is of primary significant of the risk management. It shows that insurance is a form of risk management primarily used to avoid against the risk of a contingent loss (Tsanakas and Desli, 2005 cited in El-adaway and Kandil, 2009). Insurance is determined as the equitable risk transferring. The insured need to pay equitable insurance rates called premium to insurance company (Harrington and Niehaus, 2004 cited in El-adaway and Kandil, 2009).

The insurance premium payment is a major cost of project. If insurance is used, the premium must be paid in advance. If any losses happen in project, the project can get indemnification. However, the using of insurance can get loss of premiums. Therefore, the contract manager and risk manager need to consider about insurable risks. All kinds of insurable risks are not insured. Bunni (2003) mentioned that classification of risks on the basic insurability is shown in figure below.


There are many risks in the construction project. Each project activity may be its own risks such as occurrence of physical damages, accidents, materials delivery delays, unforeseeable problems, unforeseeable site conditions, natural hazards, political affects, etc. These risks will affect to the client, contractor, design professional, employees, third party and public. For instance, the contractor cannot be able to finish the project with contract price because of the economic situation and changes, the site condition changes, the difficulties of resources and others. Therefore, contractor’s default is one of the most important risks in construction projects (Arditi et al. 2000 cited in Al-Sobiei et al. 2005).

Contractor’s risks cannot be eliminated by the client, but it can be partly or totally transferred to the bonds (Al-Sobiei et al. 2005). When the project meets the unforeseeable contractor’s failure, it is very difficult to finish on time because the projects may have financial difficulties, delays and others. However, the surety bonds can provide to the client as a guarantee to complete the project and defaulting financial payment from the contractor (Russell, 1990; Mills, 2001).

Ms. Kyawt Phyu Phyu made a case study which objectives were to : (1) study insurable risks which can be managed using insurance and surety bonds; (2) study the insurance and surety bonds in oil & gas and petrochemical projects; and (3) develop a framework on risk and insurance

Conclusions

Objective 1

It was found out that there are many kinds of risks in oil and gas and petrochemical projects. Their risk management (risk transfer) approaches are the insurance, surety bonds and other approaches. However, most of the appropriate risk transfer approaches are the insurance and surety bonds and the detailed conclusion for objective-2 are described in table below.


Objective 2

it was found out that most of the projects don’t have the same insurances and surety bonds because of their project nature, project types, different project parties, different risks management system. The insurance premiums are also different relating with risks, project types, company background and others. If the risks are high, insurance premiums are also high. There are eleven (11) kinds of insurance and four (4) kinds of bonds on petrochemical and oil & gas project in this research according to case study.

(i) Recommendation Insurances for offshore pipeline project

The recommendation insurances for offshore oil and gas projects according to case study are:
1. Construction All Risk Insurance
2. General Third Party Liability Insurance
3. Marine Hull and Machinery Insurance
4. Protection and Indemnity Insurance
5. Worker’s Compensation Insurance
6. Transportation Insurance

(ii) Recommendations Insurances for Transportation and Installation Offshore
Facilities Projects

The recommendation insurances for transportation and installation offshore facilities projects according to case study are:
1. Construction All Risk Insurance/ Erection All Risk Insurance
2. General Third Party Liability Insurance3. Worker’s Compensation Insurance
4. Marine Hull and Machinery Insurance
5. Protection and Indemnity Insurance
6. Transportation (Marine Cargo) Insurance
7. Builder All Risk Insurance

(iii) Recommendation Insurances for Urea Fertilizer Factory Projects

The recommendation insurances for Urea Fertilizer Projects according to case study are:
1. Construction All Risk Insurance/ Erection All Risk Insurance
2. Transportation Insurance
3. Fire and Exploration Insurance
4. Worker’s Compensation Insurance
5. General Third Party Liability Insurance

(iv) Recommendation Insurances for Refinery Projects

The recommendation insurances for refinery projects according to case study are:
1. Construction All Risk Insurance/ Erection All Risk Insurance
2. General Third Party Liability Insurance
3. Worker’s Compensation Insurance
4. Construction Plant and Equipment Insurances
5. Business Interruption Insurance

(v) Recommendation Surety Bonds for Petrochemical and Oil and Gas Projects

In petrochemical and oil and gas projects, bid bond is needed in the bidding stage. In the construction and operation phases, performance bond (bank guarantee) and advance payment bond are important according to case study.

Objective 3

Main types of insurable risks in petrochemical and oil and gas projects are loss of life and personnel injury, material damage, material in transit and contractor’s risks. The insurable risks for oil and gas projects are collusion, oil pollution related with marine property. The researcher shows the detailed level of respective insurable risks in below figure. The project’s participants transfer these kinds of insurable risks to insurance and surety bonds, and the detailed descriptions are mentioned in figure below.




Her thesis abstract is copied and posted.
Abstract

There are many uncertainties, risks and probability and possibility of loss of chance in every firm, business, projects and human beings. The oil and gas project and petrochemical projects have many uncertainties and risks because these projects are related with geological risks, probability of existing oil, oceanography, and others. Insurance and surety bond are very important in projects because they can protect the risks, contractor’s default, and the project can get the financial and performance security. This study is emphasizing on insurable risks with appropriate types insurance and surety bonds.

This study emphasizes on the case study approach on petrochemical and oil and gas projects. The study was conducted to two oil and gas projects from Myanmar, two urea fertilizer projects from Myanmar and two refinery projects from Thailand to study types of insurable risks, insurance and surety bonds.