About this ebook
As it is not intended as a technical book per se, I have included a few incidents of on-the-job problems, that I encountered over the years, and how they were handled figured that's the stuff that doesn't get covered in engineering school!
There is also a section on preparing cost estimates for some major projects, such as the Chicago T.A.R.P. contracts and a few pointers on bidding "overseas" projects. The chapter titled "Murphy's Law" is just that "It should not have happened" but it did. A few stories are recounted just as they happened, about totally unexpected incidents that caused delays, cost money, and caused some minor headaches for yours truly.
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About the author
Harry was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland. On fin- ishing high school, he went to England and was hired as a Trainee Engineer by a large Civil Engineering & Building contractor. Training initially was at the home office and included drafting, quantity "take-off", and surveying basics. Following a year at the home office, he was assigned to a construction project as an Instrument Man, assisting the Project Engineer. In less than two years he was appointed Field Engineer and a year later was moved to rank of Superintendent. His first as- signment in that capacity involved supervision of a large sewer installation in a suburb of London. That project in- cluded about three thousand feet of small diameter hand- mined tunnel. A succeeding project also included some tunnel work. In 1960 Harry immigrated to Canada. His first job in- terview was with a Civil Engineering company. This com- pany, McNamara Corporation, happened to have a tunneling division and from that point on, it became a "life of tunneling" for Harry, with a number of contractors, and then as a con- sultant. Harry took a position in the U.S. in 1976 as Chief Es- timator, with a tunneling specialty company - S & M Con- structors, Solon, Ohio. In 1986 he moved back into field-work and supervised a variety of tunnel projects, both in rock and soft ground over the next ten years. Now retired, Harry lives with wife Beverley in Kansas. They spend time visiting their five children and eight grandchildren throughout the U.S. and Canada.
