On Feb 25, 5:53*pm, "Andrew Heenan" wrote:
wrote in message...
Mind you, I have a niggling feeling that they were associated with
at least one catastrophe of their own - but I can't fix the memory.
WCML electrification, Christmas 2007. "oops, we have half as
many electrical engineers turned up as we thought we'd ordered"

Give that man a peanut!
Thanks for that - it's annoying when I forget disasters!

But that wasn't a project cockup, it was only a single incident in
part of a much bigger project. I'm not sure how much you can blame the
project managers for staff not turning up when they should have. If
the project hadn't been in such a bad state when Bechtel took over,
the delay in the electrification work wouldn't have been such a
problem, as there would have been plenty of leeway in the times.

Have the been any complete projects in the UK where Bechtel have made
a real mess of it?