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Stellar Performer: Safeco Field
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I,aseboll is full of surprises. ln 2001, the Seoille Moriners won o rerord-tying I I 6 wins in regulor-
=c:rn ploy. Bul lhey were eliminoled during the Ameriron leogue ployoffs, so the winninge$
s- in buseboll didn't moke il to the World Series. Thot up-ond-down feeling rhoroderized
ttnr ruilding of Sofeco Field, the Moriners'stote-of-the-ort $odium lhd opened in July 1999. The
;cciumt closic design ond ll-orre, lhree-piere retrortoble roof mode il on exriling proiecl for 'fiE (onlr0d0r, ioinl venlure leom Hunl-Kiewil. Bul lhe biggesl chollenge wos lhe occeleroted
r:dule.
n Augusl 1998, lhe proiecl wos plunging forword on o fost-trock schedule when J. (. Brummond,
m{+ct monoger for fie new boseboll romplex, took time lo exploin how fie intense schedule wos
:rrling fie proiecl.
Prominenily disployed in Brummondt office wos o simple chort comporing fie normol 50-mon1h
:.-:dule for o bollpork of this size ond the fosttrock, 34.month srhedule for Sofero Field. "This rhort -:-. the whole slory," soid Brummond, o 25-yeor veleron of lhe tonslrudion industry who hos buih
: ,:q4hing from on islond d Prudhoe Boy lo bus tunnels in Seottle ond freewoy bridges in Howoii. As
*-h mosl fo$-lrork proieds, fie speed of con$ruclion rome wilh o price. "Ihere ore q lhousond 'i:sons why fie rosl of fiis proiect is dimbing, bul they oll come bock-in whole or in porl-t0 0n
::gresive schedule," soid Brummond. {See Figure 12.7.}
Fosllrocking, lhe proclire of beginning tonslruclion before design is romplete, is inherently risky
:xouse il opens up fie posibility of wrong ossumplions ond subsequent rework. Al Ssfeco tield, fost- *rcking led l0 mony (oses where design modificulions ond detoil drowings were releosed fie some
ry toncreie for fiol port of lhe slructure wos poured. Brummond emphosized fie unusuol siluolion:
"#e oaepled drowings up unlil the lime of pour. I colled it lust-inrime design." Amozingly, fte
:'ciect stoyed on srhedule. Bul lhe relentles po(e vlos bolonred by predktoble, but unovoidoble, cost
'(re0ses.
OVTRTIME
From fte slorl, the men ond w0men 0n lhe sile worked overtime. Ten-hour doys were rommon, ond
rork often conlinued over weekends. lVith fie overoge overlime role ot lime ond o holf (50 percent
rore lhon lhe regulor woge), il's eosy lo underslond why these cosls increosed.
INEIFI(IENfl OF OVERTII!fr E
The theory of overlime is lhol one person (0n orcomplish 80 hours of work by working eifier two 40-
hour weeks or by working I 2 hours o doy for seven doys $roight. The reolity is differenl, porticulorly
when it! physicol lobor. "Brkkloyers ore o good exomple," Brummond exploined. "Brickloying is
exocting, hord work. You con'l speed brickwork wilh overlime, becouse you weor oul lhe loborers. Ihe
low of diminishing morginol relurns opplies to everyone on this site. So oll the exlro overlime helps
fie schedule, bul lhe overlime hours oren't os produdive."
