By ALAN SNEL
LVSportsBiz.com
The Raiders stadium construction is moving along at a brisk pace in Las Vegas and the stadium board meetings have become ho-hum sessions that attract only the most die-hard followers like us reporters.
The agenda items for the stadium authority meetings typically include a status report saying the project budget for the fixed-roof, 62,228-seat, 107-suite stadium on 62.5 acres remains unchanged at $1.84 billion.
But the status report for Wednesday’s stadium board meeting agenda concluded with an interesting little nugget provided by the stadium authority’s outside construction consultant, Grand Canyon Construction Partners (GCDP).
Grand Canyon Construction said that it was noted in previous reports that the Raiders stadium contractor (the Mortsenson-McCarthy tandem) has chosen to accelerate the steel erection of the venue to make up for lost time in concrete work. (The stadium is projected to be complete in July 2020.)
Grand Canyon Construction also noted that it has been advised that the labor pool for union iron workers in the metro Las Vegas area is “almost exhausted.”
With that in mind, GCDP “is concerned that this may have a negative effect on the contractor’s ability to capture lost construction time,” according to the meeting agenda status report.
Stadium authority staff has requested Grand Canyon Development Partners closely monitor the situation, “as this may pose a heightened risk for project delays.”
In the status report for Wednesday’s meeting, there was another issue raised by Grand Canyon Development Partners.
“In its October submission, GCDP noted that StadCo (the Raiders) had omitted previous provided milestone data from its monthly reports. GCDP indicated that it was ‘important to identify previously identified open dates,’ and they intend to ‘continue to track these and other anticipated complete dates’ as part of their project monitoring efforts,” according to the status report item for Wednesday’s meeting.
In March, LVSportsBiz.com profiled Grand Canyon Development Partners, a construction management firm picked by the stadium authority board to review the stadium construction and plans as the public board’s outside consulting representative.
LVSportsBiz.com will be at Wednesday’s 1 p.m. stadium authority board meeting at the Clark County Commission chambers.
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