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CSR’s, Frank Carr, Facilitates 19 Partnering Facilitation Workshops in 2018-2019

Bob Randolph — Thu, 09 Jan 2020 21:44:30 +0000

Frank Carr, CSR’s Lead Partnering Facilitator, conducted 19 workshops during the past two years in 6 states and two international locations (Diego Garcia and the Marshall Islands). The list of Frank’s partnering facilitations is set forth below and includes the Eisenhower Memorial on the Mall in DC, the new Chesapeake Bridge Tunnel expansion, reservoir-dam projects, and roads and building construction projects.

Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission, Mosites Construction Company; Tuscarora Tunnel rehabilitation Project, Pennsylvania Turnpike, Pennsylvania (10/17/19)

NAS Pax River, NAVFAC, BL Harbert International; P265: UCLASS RDT&E Hangar
Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Patuxent River, Maryland (06/12/19)

NASA Langley, Greenland Enterprises; NASA LaRC Compressor 8 Installation Project
Hampton, Virginia (06/03/19)

Bencor Corporation, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE); Pittsburgh District: East Branch Cutoff Wall Construction Project, East Branch Lake, Clarion River, Elk County, Pennsylvania, Follow-Up Partnering Workshop (05/01/19)

GSA, National Park Service, Eisenhower Memorial Committee, Clark Construction Group, and Gilbane Construction Inc.: Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Project, Washington, D.C., Follow-Up Partnering Workshop (05/02/19)

PC Construction, Jacobs, County of Fairfax, Virginia; Noman Cole Water Pollution Control Plant, Solid Water Processing Phase 2 Project; County of Fairfax, Virginia; Follow-Up Workshop (05/08/19)

Military & Federal Construction Company, NAVFAC, MBF Architects: P766 F-35 Lift Station Repair Facility Project; FRC-East Cherry Point, North Carolina (01/31/19)

PC Construction, Jacobs, County of Fairfax, Virginia; Noman Cole Water Pollution Control Plant, Solid Water Processing Phase 2 Project; County of Fairfax, Virginia; Follow-Up Workshop (12/14/18)

Chugach Federal Solutions Inc., NAVFAC NW: West Sound Base Operations Support (BOS) Contract; Follow-Up Partnering Workshop; Silverdale, Washington (11/014/18)

SJC-BVIL (JV), NAVFAC, and KBR; Repairs to North Power Plant Fac. #730
Diego Garcia, Indian Ocean (10/03/18)

NASA Langley, GSA, Hill International, W.M. Jordan, and AECOM; NASA Langley Research Center; Measurement Systems Laboratory (MSL) Project; Hampton, Virginia; Follow-Up Workshop (09/19/18)

PC Construction, Jacobs, County of Fairfax, Virginia; Noman Cole Water Pollution Control Plant, Solid Water Processing Phase 2 Project; County of Fairfax, Virginia; Follow-Up Workshop (08/16/18)

San Juan Construction, Inc., U.S. Army Corps of USACE Honolulu District; Echo Pier Restoration, Kwajalein Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands (05/18/18)

MEBGC/Haymes Brothers JV, County of Henrico, and County of Cumberland, Virginia; Cobbs Creek Reservoir Dam and Facilities Project, Virginia; Follow-Up Workshop (04/12/18)

PC Construction, Jacobs, County of Fairfax, Virginia; Noman Cole Water Pollution Control Plant, Solid Water Processing Phase 2 Project; County of Fairfax, Virginia (04/04/18)

Chesapeake Bay and Bridge Tunnel District, Chesapeake Tunnel JV; Parallel Thimble Shoal Tunnel Project; Chesapeake, Virginia; Follow-Up Workshop (03/29/2018)

Chugach Federal Solutions Inc., NAVFAC NW: West Sound Base Operations Support (BOS) Contract; Follow-Up Partnering Workshop; Silverdale, Washington (03/022/18)

San Juan Construction, Inc., USACE Honolulu District; Replace Fuel Storage Tanks, Kwajalein Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands (02/23/18)

CSR Partnering Faciliation Year-End Review 2018-2019

Bob Randolph — Tue, 05 Feb 2019 22:36:24 +0000

Partnering Facilitation – 2019

CSR partner, Frank Carr, started off the 2019 new year with a partnering workshop facilitation for NAVFAC and the Military & Federal Construction Company at Cherry Point, North Carolina. The project is P766 F-35 Lift Station Repair Facility Project, for the Marine Corps Fleet Readiness Center (FRC-East).

Dispute Review Boards (DRB)

At the start of 2019, CSR partner Frank Carr successfully completed two DRB’s as a Chairman on one project and a Member on another project. Both of the DRB’s extended over the course of several years and neither major construction project had a claim resulting in litigation. Frank was the DRB Chairman of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority’s (WMATA) Andrews Center Bus Facility in the Washington D.C. area and a Member of the DRB for the New York City MTA Capital Construction’s East Side Access Project (ESA) Contract CM005 – Manhattan South Structures (Grand Central Terminal); New York, NY.

Partnering Facilitations – 2018

As calendar year 2018 came to an end, CSR Partners, Frank Carr and Bob Randolph, had another busy year facilitating partnering workshops on federal, state, and local government projects. Their list of facilitated partnering workshops included the following projects:

PC Construction, Jacobs, County of Fairfax, Virginia; Noman Cole Water Pollution Control Plant, Solid Water Processing Phase 2 Project; County of Fairfax, Virginia; Follow-Up Workshop (12/14/18)

Chugach Federal Solutions Inc., NAVFAC NW: West Sound Base Operations Support (BOS) Contract; Follow-Up Partnering Workshop; Silverdale, Washington (11/14/18)

Chesapeake Bay and Bridge Tunnel District, Chesapeake Tunnel JV; Parallel Thimble Shoal Tunnel Project; Chesapeake, Virginia; Follow-Up Workshop (11/7/2018)

Defense Base Services, Inc., and NAVFAC Fallon, NV. Naval Air Station Fallon, NV, Base Operating Contract (BOSC): Follow-Up Workshop (10/31/18)

SJC-BVIL (JV), NAVFAC, and KBR; Repairs to North Power Plant Fac. #730, Diego Garcia, Indian Ocean (10/03/18)

NASA Langley, GSA, Hill International, W.M. Jordan, and AECOM; NASA Langley Research Center; Measurement Systems Laboratory (MSL) Project; Hampton, Virginia; Follow-Up Workshop (09/19/18)

PC Construction, Jacobs, County of Fairfax, Virginia; Noman Cole Water Pollution Control Plant, Solid Water Processing Phase 2 Project; County of Fairfax, Virginia; Follow-Up Workshop (08/16/18)

Bencor Corporation, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE); Pittsburgh District: East Branch Cutoff Wall Construction Project, East Branch Lake, Clarion River, Elk County, Pennsylvania, Follow-Up Partnering Workshop (07/11/18)

San Juan Construction, Inc., U.S. Army Corps of USACE Honolulu District; Echo Pier Restoration, Kwajalein Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands (05/18/18)

MEBGC/Haymes Brothers JV, County of Henrico, and County of Cumberland, Virginia; Cobbs Creek Reservoir Dam and Facilities Project, Virginia; Follow-Up Workshop (04/12/18)

PC Construction, Jacobs, County of Fairfax, Virginia; Noman Cole Water Pollution Control Plant, Solid Water Processing Phase 2 Project; County of Fairfax, Virginia (04/04/18)

Chesapeake Bay and Bridge Tunnel District, Chesapeake Tunnel JV; Parallel Thimble Shoal Tunnel Project; Chesapeake, Virginia; Follow-Up Workshop (03/29/2018)

Chugach Federal Solutions Inc., NAVFAC NW: West Sound Base Operations Support (BOS) Contract; Follow-Up Partnering Workshop; Silverdale, Washington (03/22/18)

San Juan Construction, Inc., USACE Honolulu District; Replace Fuel Storage Tanks, Kwajalein Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands (02/23/18)

CSR 2018 GLOBAL PARTNERING UPDATE (2018)

Bob Randolph — Mon, 24 Dec 2018 04:08:56 +0000

A highlight of 2018 for CSR was the numerous, diverse, and geographically-dispersed partnering workshops facilitated by CSR partners Frank Carr and Bob Randolph. Frank designed and facilitated a dozen partnering workshops from Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean and Kwajalein Atoll in the Republic of the Marshall Islands to Seattle on the U.S. west coast to Northern Virginia on the U.S east coast. Although most workshops involved construction partnering for Federal, State and local government agencies; Base Operations Support (BOS) contracts were also facilitated. Bob was also actively involved in partnering and he facilitated several partnering workshops in Nevada and the Chesapeake Bay area of Virginia. One of Bob’s workshops was on a Base Operating Services () contract and the other involved the expansion of the Chesapeake Bay Tunnel. Additionally, CSR continued its partnering follow-up Survey work on the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Project in Washington, D.C.

The list of 2018 partnering workshops with the names of the government agencies and contractors is below:

Frank Carr

PC Construction, Jacobs, County of Fairfax, Virginia; Noman Cole Water Pollution Control Plant, Solid Water Processing Phase 2 Project; County of Fairfax, Virginia; Follow-Up Workshop (12/14/18)

Chugach Federal Solutions Inc., NAVFAC NW: West Sound Base Operations Support (BOS) Contract; Follow-Up Partnering Workshop; Silverdale, Washington (11/014/18)

SJC-BVIL (JV), NAVFAC, and KBR; Repairs to North Power Plant Fac. #730: Diego Garcia, Indian Ocean (10/03/18)

NASA Langley, GSA, Hill International, W.M. Jordan, and AECOM; NASA Langley Research Center; Measurement Systems Laboratory (MSL) Project; Hampton, Virginia; Follow-Up Workshop (09/19/18)

PC Construction, Jacobs, County of Fairfax, Virginia; Noman Cole Water Pollution Control Plant, Solid Water Processing Phase 2 Project; County of Fairfax, Virginia; Follow-Up Workshop (08/16/18)

Bencor Corporation, USACE Pittsburgh District: East Branch Cutoff Wall Construction Project, East Branch Lake, Clarion River, Elk County, Pennsylvania, Follow-Up Partnering Workshop (07/11/18)

San Juan Construction, Inc., U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Honolulu District; Echo Pier Restoration, Kwajalein Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands (05/18/18)

MEBGC/Haymes Brothers JV, County of Henrico, and County of Cumberland, Virginia; Cobbs Creek Reservoir Dam and Facilities Project, Virginia; Follow-Up Workshop (04/12/18)

PC Construction, Jacobs, County of Fairfax, Virginia; Noman Cole Water Pollution Control Plant, Solid Water Processing Phase 2 Project; County of Fairfax, Virginia (04/04/18)

Chesapeake Bay and Bridge Tunnel District, Chesapeake Tunnel JV; Parallel Thimble Shoal Tunnel Project, Follow-Up Partnering Workshop; Chesapeake, Virginia; Follow-Up Workshop (03/29/2018)

Chugach Federal Solutions Inc., NAVFAC NW: West Sound Base Operations Support (BOS) Contract; Follow-Up Partnering Workshop; Silverdale, Washington (03/022/18)

San Juan Construction, Inc., U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Honolulu District; Replace Fuel Storage Tanks, Kwajalein Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands (02/23/18)

Bob Randolph

Defense Base Services Inc. (DBSI), NAS Fallon; NAS Fallon Base Operations Support (BOS) Contract, Fallon, Nevada (10/1/2018)

Chesapeake Bay and Bridge Tunnel District, Chesapeake Tunnel JV; Parallel

Thimble Shoal Tunnel Project, Follow-Up Partnering Workshop; Chesapeake, Virginia; Follow-Up Workshop (10/8/2018)

CSR’s Bob Randolph Facilitates a workshop for DC’s Klingle Valley Trail conversion project

admin — Thu, 18 Feb 2016 02:19:31 +0000

In January, 2016, CSR’s Bob Randolph facilitated a partnering workshop for the DC Government and a local contractor, Anchor Construction, to help the partners and stakeholders focus on their relationship, expectations and mutual goals in converting the long-abandoned Klingle Valley Trail in Northwest DC to a recreational multi-use trail. See http://www.klinglevalleytrail.com/ for details of the project. At the end of the facilitated meeting, the parties agreed on a project “Vision”, “Mutual Goals” and a methodology for resolving issues before they matured into claims.

DIEGO GARCIA PARTNERING WORKSHOP

admin — Tue, 29 Dec 2015 01:11:55 +0000

CSR director, Frank Carr, recently facilitated a two-day partnering workshop on Diego Garcia, an island in the Indian Ocean. The partnering participants were the U.S. Navy and its BOS (Base Operations Support) contractor. Prior to the commencement of the workshop, Mr. Carr administered a pre-workshop survey that helped the stakeholders focus on their relationship, expectations, mutual goals, and issues at the workshop.

SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION OF DISPUTE REVIEW BOARDS

admin — Sun, 13 Dec 2015 18:47:51 +0000

In 2015, CSR partner, Frank Carr, successfully completed two Dispute Review Boards where the disputes had been pending for a number of years. As Chairman of the Board in Washington, D.C., Frank reports that there were no disputes remaining between the Washington Area Metropolitan Transit Authority (WMATA) and its contractor at the conclusion of the Board. Also, Frank was a DRB Board Member for a subway construction project in New York City between the MTA (Metropolitan Transportation Authority) Capitol Construction and its contractor that has been completed with no disputes remaining.

CSR Conducts Partnering Workshop Facilitation – Wiesbaden, Germany:

admin — Tue, 10 Sep 2013 16:50:27 +0000

On August 13 – 14, 2013 CSR partner Frank Carr facilitated a partnering workshop for the Missile Defense Agency, NAVFAC, Corps of Engineers, Black and Veatch, and Coplan AG on the Aegis-Ashore Project in Deveslu, Romania

CSR Conducts Preliminary Partnering Session Facilitation – Washington D.C.

admin — Tue, 10 Sep 2013 16:38:43 +0000

On June 14, 2013 CSR partner Frank Carr facilitated a preliminary partnering session for the Architect of the Capitol, Parsons Construction, and Pepco Energy Services for the Cogeneration Plant Addition Project in Washington D.C.

Partnering Workshop Facilitation – New Cumberland, Pennsylvania:

admin — Tue, 10 Sep 2013 16:36:45 +0000

On May 7, 2013 CSR partner Frank Carr facilitated a partnering workshop for Boro Construction, Defense Logistics Agency, and Corps of Engineers Harrisburg Area Office for the “Building 2001 Roof and HVAC System Replacement Project”.

Three Partnering Workshop Facilitations – Ponce and San Juan, Puerto Rico

admin — Tue, 10 Sep 2013 16:18:08 +0000

In April, 2013, CSR partner Frank Carr facilitated three partnering workshop for Dragados USA, Corps of Engineers Jacksonville District, Corps Of Engineers Antilles Area Office, Puerto Rico on the Portugues Dam and the Rio Puerto Nuevo.