Engineering Sections at Jobsite (Inspection, Design and Drafting,

Survey, and Facilities) and the Engineering Manager and his assistants

were responsible for the interpretation of all H & N produced plans and

specifications,

If major revisions were required, a dispatch was sent

to the Home Office Engineering Division requesting revised drawings or
authority to redesign. If minor revisions were required, or if authority for major revisions were received from the Home Office, field

sketches were prepared.

FIELD SKETCHES AND CHANGE ORDERS
Field sketches were prepared to augment Home Office drawings and
to interpret changes and additional work authorized by the AEC Resident
Engineer, A total of 575 of these were prepared at Jobsite.
Additional work requiring expenditures exceeding $100.00 required

the preparation of change orders.

These were prepared by the Field

Engineering Division and submitted through channels to the AEC, The
change order indicated the scope, magnitude, and description of the
work to be done, its estimated cost, and the justification, Upon approval by AEC, the orders were distributed to the construction departments.
All departments of the Engineering Division contributed to the
field designs necessary for preparation of change orders. However, the
work of processing more than two hundred and fifty of these required
the full-time services of an Assistant to the Engineering Manager for a
period of several months during the fall of 1950.

A detailed record of both field sketches and change orders was

kept at Jobsite and was available for use at the Jobsite Engineering

Office,

INSPECTION AND MATERIALS TESTING
The Inspection and Testing Section of the Engineering Department
at the Jobsite was established on the basis of the philosophy which
dictated that the organization should act as a continuous check on all
construction activities to assure campliance with plans and specifica-

tions.

It was essential that the inspection be carried on in an un-

biased manner and that the fact that the H & N organization was responsible for construction, as well as engineering, should not act as a
limitation on inspection functions, In order to maximize the efficiency
of inspection, Resident Inspectors were assigned to the various island
locations at which construction work was being performed, and traveling inspectors specifically concerned with electrical activities,
mechanical activities, paving, and concrete mixing circulated through
the Atoll for the purpose of inspecting and noting progress in these
specific fields of work, As warranted by work loads, Assistant Inspectors were assigned, Close collaboration was maintained between
Inspection and Materials Testing personnel and, at the peak of operations, twenty four individuals were employed in these functions,

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