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CASE STUDY 9.1 Moving the Historic Capen House 11 Once occupied by one of Winter Park, Florida's earliest_ trees and another building makes it such that the house residents, James Seymour Capen, the majestic Capen would not fit between them in one piece. So we have House, originally built in 1885, was set to be demolished to cut the honse in half into two pieces, and we will so buyers could build on its land. Luckily, its new own- move each piece one at a time up on wheeled dollies, ers decided to give preservationists, who were eager to roll it down to the lake, roll it over the ramp, onto the see the home saved, time to create a plan and raise funds barge, and then the barge will be motored across the to move the historic house across Lake Osceola. To save I lake where each half will be brought to its eventual restthe 200-ton historic house, the group of preservationists ing place. That process is repeated for the second half." moved it across the lake in two separate pieces, to where The interviewer continued to ask Mr. Roark about it could rest next to the Albin Polasek Museum. To accomplish this construction feat, contractor the work required to prepare the other side of the lake Frank Roark acted almost as a conductor of a symphony where the Capen House would reside once it had been composed of moving, interdependent parts. Each part moved. Mr. Roark described a ramp that had to be of this seemingly impossible project had to be broken assembled on that side of the lake as well: down into small, achievable tasks and sequenced in "The ramp has to be assembled again on the other side a way that made logical sense. During a 2013 radio to allow the house to roll off because the barge, although interview with Mr. Roark, the project's chief contractor_ it only drops about 3-3.5 feet of water, it can't just literdescribed the intricacies of the complex project by stat- ally go right onto the shore, It can stop pretty close, but ing that there were "complicating, challenging factors. There's going to be some gap there that has to be bridged that add to the excitement and fun of the whole thing." with the ramp, the ramp has to be wide enough and During the interview, Mr. Roark described the scope of the project work in great detail. He started can roll over and head up, go on up the property. by explaining how the team would assemble a barge Finally, Mr. Roark described the delivery of the large enough to transport the house. Additionally, he discussed the preparation of the historic Capen House along with its original fixtures: "It's done with some heary equipment that is, would "Well, what we do is we have to assemble the barge, the be, in front of the house, and these would be tow trucks barge is big, it's going to have to be 40 feet by 60 feet and they have winches on them, and steel cables are and so you can't just come up with a 40 foot by 60 foot laken down to the house and imagine if you would barge, truck it into town, and roll it to the dock. So the you would pull the wagon. Well, the house will have way it's done is the barge is comprised of individual a couple of connecting points and the steel cables will smaller barges that are typically 10 feet wide and 20 go to that the steel beams of the house are actually sitbrought down onto the property, dnagged down onto_ ting on. And they will go back up to these tow velicles, the lake into the water, and then another piece and an- loaders so that those don't slip down towards the house. large raft. And you can keep adding those individual And so those things start winching the house forward piecesuntilyougetalargebargeaslongasyouneelslowlybutitdoes,itrollsfortward.Soitsslowlypulled.andthehouseuponwheeleddolliessoitstartsrolling to carry the weight of a house. The way that the house or winched forward and then as it gets closer to the is calculated and by knowing what it's made out of and winches, those are then moved further up the lill and couple of small motor boats, one in the front and one in the process is repeated where it is winched along a little the back, pull and push it slowly across the lake over to_ bit at a time until it gets to the final destination. where the house is currently located. It comes up to the Last, but not least, Mr. Roark shared the fact that shore and then a ramp is built from the barge up onto there were also two obstacles on the lake front of the the shore, obviously a strong ramp. Then the house has resting place for the Capen House that had to be hanto be cut into two pieces because the lot is very narrow dled with considerable care: down by the lake and the constraints of some existing (continued) 46 Chapter 9 - Project Scheduling "And, there's also a large dock and boat louse down Questions on the lake exactly where the barge has to go and where the house has to roll through it. So we have to take the 1. Based on the work described by Frank Roark in boat house and the dock and put them on it their oton his radio interview, construct a list of project work little barge, cut them loose, float them off to the side activities with IDs, descriptions, and predecessor out of the tway, so that we can make way for the large tasks. barge and the ramp and the house to roll onto it. And 2. Construct an AON network diagram for the activionce those house pieces are moved and out of the way ties required to complete the Capen House move. we have to float the boat house and the dock and put it Be sure to visualize the interdependencies of the right back in the original position." work tasks and to follow network diagramming There is certainly no doubt that it took a wellconventions. 3. Identify concurrent, merge, and burst activities orchestrated team of dedicated individuals to make this and explain the impact of convergences upon the move happen. Once the house was delivered across the project planning process. lake and reassembled, it was restored into the beautiful historic venue it is today. This construction feat resulted in an admirable transformation: a charming public event 4. If you were the project manager for moving the Capen House, what are some of the scheduling challenges you might anticipate with this project space for the Winter Park community to appreciate for based upon your network diagram? How would many years to come. 12 you ensure project success