Alberta transmission tower steel contract dispute
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A $50M contract dispute between buyer (Canadian utility) and seller (Indian steel mill) over 100,000 tons of steel for 111 towers (~1000 tons each at ~$1.5M steel cost per tower). Tom's quoting code section 6.5 (inspection responsibilities). Used to ground the abstract code-citation discussion in current consulting work, and at §9.p5 to illustrate the financial stakes of weight savings from LRFD design.
The last two days I was out in Calgary dealing with a problem of big steel transmission towers — 500 kVa bringing electricity to the country. One company in India sold a hundred thousand tons to build a bunch of these towers that are going to be in Alberta. If you figure it out, there are 111 towers and a hundred thousand tons, so each really big tower weighs a thousand tons of steel, which is about one and a half million dollars just for the steel. Erecting one of these towers is probably two or three million dollars per tower. So next time you're driving along the highway and you see these big towers, that's two or three million dollars per tower for the really big ones.