On-Demand Training:
Power Plant Demolition Best Practices

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