Working Late... Is there a needs?

If you follow through my blog entry regarding the DUKE highway construction, you might be noticed that i kept repeating the same issue... In fact, the resident surrounding the construction site has suffered from noise and air pollution for a couple of months now. Couples of meetings and compliants has been sent via official letters on working overtime. Unfortunately, the DUKE Highway construction company don't even give a damn on resident compliant and continue working late.

Two days ago, the construction company worked late again reason being was

"We are still concreting bored pile. Pile 43m deep. Today is last day of TNB shutdown, we have to complete the pile and from tomorrow move the machine to mdm Yap area. Works delay is expected to complete by 20:00-21:00. Sorry for the inconvenience." - dated: August 13th 2008 18:30

Later,

"Last truck concrete not enough, need to top up 2 additional concrete truck due to big cavity in limestone. now waiting for last additional truck. Works further delay and expected to complete by 9:45pm. Very Sorry. " Dated: August 13th 2008 20:50



At the end they finished the work @ about 21:30 after lots of compliants launched by one of the committee members. *sigh*

The overtime was not happened only two days ago. In fact it has been happening since the day one and i have captured all the text that sent by the construction company in this entry for the past three months. Let's go back in time and review some of the text that this construction company sent...

August 4th 2008
18:30
- We are still concreting bored pile. Pile 42m deep. Hole ready at 4:30pm delay in concrete supply due to shortage of truck. Now waiting for last 3 truck to arrive from backup plant from Kerinchi. Works delay expected to complete by 9:00pm. Sorry for inconvenience caused.

21:00
- Last truck concrete not enough, need to top up additional 2 concrete truck due to big cavity limestone, now concreting for last truck (hopefully is enough). Works further delay and expected to complete by 10pm. Very Sorry."

July 31st 2008
18:50
- We are still concreting bored pile. Pile 40m deep. Hole ready at 6pm due to drilling work delayed cause by vibro machine breakdown. Works delay & expected to complete by 9:30-10:00pm. Sorry for inconvenience caused.

July 25th 2008
18:30
- We are still concreting bored pile. pile 35m deep. Now concreting for last truck. Works expected to complete by 7:30pm. Sorry for the inconvience caused.

July 23th 2008
18:30
- We are still concreting bored pile. pile 46m deep. Now concreting for last 2 truck. Works expected to complete by 8:30pm. Sorry for the inconvience caused.

19:50
- Last truck concrete not enough. Need to top up additional 2 concrete truck due to big cavity limestone. Now waiting for truck to arrive. Work further delay and expected to complete by 9:00-9:30pm. Sorry for the inconvience caused.

July 19th 2008
19:00
- We are still concreting bored pile. pile 36m deep. Now concreting for last truck. Works expected to complete by 8:30pm. Sorry for the inconvience caused.

July 8th 2008
19:30
- We are still concreting pile cap. start at 4:30pm delay in concrete supply due to concrete batching plant breakdown. Now waiting for last 2 truck to arrive from backup plant from Danau Kota. Works delay expected to complete by 8:30-9:00pm. Sorry for inconvenience caused.

June 27th 2008
18:00
- We are still concreting bored pile. pile 45m deep. start at 3:30pm after Friday prayer. Now concreting for last 2 truck to arrive. Works expected to complete by 7:30pm-8:00pm. Sorry for the inconvience caused.

June 26th 2008
18:30
- We are still concreting bored pile. pile 42m deep. hole ready 2:30 but 1st truck arrive 4:30 due to concrete batching plant breakdown. Now half hole completed. Works delay expected to complete by 8:30-9:00pm. Sorry for inconvenience caused.

20:00
- Now concreting last concrete truck. Works further delay & expected to complete by 9:00pm. Very sorry

June 23rd 2008
17:50
- We are still concreting bored pile. pile 45m deep. Concrete supply quite slow. Works delay expected to complete by 7:00-8:00pm. Sorry for inconvenience caused.

19:30
- Last concrete truck already arrived. Work further delay & expected to complete by 8:30pm. very sorry.

June 18th 2008
16:45
- We are still concreting bored pile. pile 31m deep. It's raining now. Works delay expected to complete by 7:30pm. Sorry for inconvenience caused.

Base on the data captured... i think you can imagine how much suffering that the resident has been through with this irresponsible construction company whom just don't care about the resident and focus on their construction and timeline only...

Let's further analyze the data captured

Overtime caused:
Concrete Supply (4 / 11 times) <-- if solve this with the concrete supplier reduce at least 4 times
Big cavite limestone ( 3 / 11 times) <-- why can't the engineer projected base on the historical data???
Others: 4 /11 times <-- Is Friday Prayer justifiable to work late... sensitive but Project Director should plan and incorporate this into project plan...

Overtime by month:
June : 4 times
July : 5 times
August: 2 times (in two weeks)
--> 11 times within 3 months.

I'm disappointed with how the construction company handle this issue. I have a strong feeling that they just ignore us... and go ahead to do what they wanna to do in the construction sites, what do you think? We perceived this as an excuse to work late. Whether it's a real report out on the situation faced by the construction company, only the construction company members and God who know the truth... :-p