As with any major project, there is an owner's project team that consists of a project director as well as someone who has responsibility for the commercial interaction between engineers, architects, and financial people.
The Sea to Sky Highway is a $600-million highway spanning 99 kilometres between Vancouver and Whistler. The project had a team of between 10 and 15 people monitoring the construction. Had this been a traditionally built project, that would have been well over 100 people. In this case, many of the same monitoring activities go on. There is monitoring on-site, but much less than traditionally, because the contractors are responsible for their own quality assurance, that is, having concrete tested, asphalt tested, etc. They provide those people. They have to report all their tests to the province. The team that oversees it on behalf of the province is checking that those tests are being done.
With respect to commercial activities, their billing is monitored, as are payments for the subcontracts. Change orders are being negotiated for changes or other items that come up. That would be fairly typical on any of the construction, but note that private partners can be penalized for not performing during construction. They have the opportunity to address any faults that they may have, but if they do not, there are points that are established. For every point they cannot address, they are penalized. That is the case on some of our projects. On other projects other private partners have not received any penalties.