On Dec. 28, crews placed the final concrete shell in the Olmsted Locks and Dam. The act completed 24 years of construction in a $2.7-billion project to replace the 80-plus-year-old Locks 52 and 53. One mechanical wicket lifter scheduled to arrive in February is all that stands between Olmsted and operation. But in 2013, it looked as if the project would never end.
“这确实是在死亡的家门口，”美国陆军工程兵团Olmsted部门负责人迈克尔·布雷登（Michael Braden）说。该项目现在将比预期的至少四年开放，其2013年的支出削减了3.3亿美元。
Michael Braden
Olmsted, Ill.
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Turned around 20 years of escalating costs and delays on a lock-and-dam project that’s crucial to U.S. shipping traffic.
布雷登解释说：“在军团，承包商AECOM和更高命令之间，任务清楚了。”
2013年重新授权后，利益相关者询问完成工作需要什么，布雷登说“能力资金”。他认为，能够制定项目时间表将创建“行动统一”，这是一个军事术语，用于描述共同运作的几个服务部门的解锁效率：在这种情况下，兵团，AECOM和交易之间的团结。这也意味着不必安排季节性资金。布雷登可以根据日常条件授权工作。当河流足够低时，他们会潜水并设置贝壳。当冬天足够驯服时，他们会继续工作。能力资金降低了计划和成本。18luck.cub
“People working on this project safely and successfully completed over 13,000 hardhat dives,” Braden says. “I am fortunate to … be the voice of the project, but all I did was make sure that, externally, the project stakeholders knew what we needed and made sure we got it so that the great team we had assembled on site could make it happen.”
