Text 20149, 47 rader
Skriven 2009-01-27 21:56:02 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
  Kommentar till text 20082 av JIM WELLER (1:123/140)
Ärende: Re: practical architecture
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-=> Quoting JIM WELLER to NANCY BACKUS on 26 Jan 09  00:02:00 <=-

 -=> Quoting Nancy Backus to Ruth Haffly <=-
 
 NB>> When my son was studying architecture... he made a point to ask
 NB>> the person who would be using the space what requirements there
 NB>> might be that he wasn't aware of.

 JW> So many don't.  They become too arrogant and make hideous costly
 JW> mistakes as a result. 

True.  Much too true..  And even though I'm not in the field, I was
aware of it even when he was in school... Knowing both his propensity to
arrogance and his desire to be the best, I deliberately pushed him to
excel by paying attention to the clients and the details...

 JW> running gas lines and building fume hoods for a chem lab at a
 JW> community college. They were going to install galvanized pipe for
 JW> the fume hood chimneys which I KNEW was wrong. The acid fumes would
 JW> eat right through them; the best material for that kind of job is
 JW> asbestos lined concrete pipe, which being heavy needs structural
 JW> support. I said so to my boss who did listen to me and had me talk
 JW> to the general contractor's project manager who ignored me, so I
 JW> tried to approach the architect who wouldn't even talk to me. So we
 JW> built them as instructed. They didn't last a single semester and the

At least your boss showed a bit of sense.  :)  Too bad the others
didn't.  :(

 JW> retrofit was very expensive as ceilings had to be knocked out and
 JW> there was acid vapour damage to the tiles, light fixtures, the
 JW> adjacent air conditioning ducts, the insulation and even the
 JW> underside of the roof itself, basically everything between the
 JW> suspended ceiling and the roof. But that architect wasn't about to
 JW> take advise from a sweaty, dirty, teenaged labourer working for a
 JW> minor sub-trade.

Although he would have done much better to have done so...  Did he at
all learn from the experience?  Or was he so far removed from the
project when things went sour that he wasn't even aware of the
consequences of his (in)action?

ttyl     neb

... Age is the high price you pay for maturity.
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