Pentagon Crews Making Good On High-Profile, Fast-Track Schedule
The forecast called for snow, the first storm of the season even though it was mid-January. Construction crews rebuilding the Pentagon had been working 20-hour days, six days a week and were making remarkable progress toward their goal: rebuilding and reoccupying the damaged portion of the Dept. of Defense headquarters on Sept. 11, 2002, the one-year anniversary of the terrorist attack. A snowstorm was not going to stop them.
A concrete pour of a major deck, scheduled for Saturday, Jan. 19the day several inches of snow was expectedwas bumped to Jan. 18. Concrete subcontractor Facchina Construction Co. Inc., La Plata, Md., "dedicated their guys" on Friday to pour 600 cu yds , double the daily volume on a standard deck pour, so the job could stay ahead of schedule. No one wanted to risk losing one or even two days to weather. "That type of attitude is infectious," says Will Colsten, the Pentagon Renovation Program's rebuilding project manager.