five (135) of whom were effectively engaged in construction,
Except for the fact that an additional six carpenters would have
facilitated holding construction schedules and, perhaps, would have
resulted in bettering the completion dates by a few days, the personnel
contained in the Company were well distributed as to occupational
specialties.
Good leadership by the Officers of this Company, together
with the superior attention to duty of a really excellent group of
Non-commissioned officers in many ways offset the fact that this
Company lacked somewhat in experience in this particular type of
construction.
With regard to the latter, the Joint Task Force
Engineer and his staff provided assistance in planning and supervising
the actual construction.
Because of the scattered locations of buildings, blast footings,
slabs and aprons to be built of concrete, it is believed that
material saving in time would have resulted from the use of transitmix concrete trucks, hauling from a central batch plant; however,
this particular type of equipment was not available on the atoll.
Other than this, the construction equipment was. well selected as to
number, type and condition.
Generally all items of construction were completed on or
before thedates set forth in a completion schedule which had been
prepared by the JTF Engineer and accepted by the AEC prior to the
start of construction. “the MK-PK Company started actual steel] erection
of the Zero tower on 2 January and topped out nine days later.
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