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MIStructE_IRE
Structural
- Sep 23, 2018
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Ruined by red tape, paperwork and seemingly everything BUT engineering!
For years we issued planning reports to the local authority for all projects. This was standard in my country for decades to gain approval prior to commencement.
Now, the planning process involves the usual report, a basement audit report, a construction management plan, a construction waste management plan, a flood risk assessment and a road safety audit! And of course no one wants to pay more for it!!
Then...we eventually get the project moving, have stage 1, 2a, 2b, 3 and 4 reports/letters/presentations, not to mention the endless meetings and emails.
The job ultimately gets to site and we have client advisors breathing down our necks to see if the aggregate used in the concrete mix complies with standards X, Y and Z - or that the mill cert for the rebar used expires halfway through the job and how will we ever deal with that!!!!
Christ Almighty!! Isambard Brunell, Thomas Telford and Ove Arup would be spinning in their graves to see the administrative clerks we have become!
I suffered a 3 hour meeting last week with a baby faced architectural technician telling me how structural elements are to be inspected..
Honestly, this stuff is pushing me closer and closer to the door!
I really hope things are different on your side of the Atlantic..
For years we issued planning reports to the local authority for all projects. This was standard in my country for decades to gain approval prior to commencement.
Now, the planning process involves the usual report, a basement audit report, a construction management plan, a construction waste management plan, a flood risk assessment and a road safety audit! And of course no one wants to pay more for it!!
Then...we eventually get the project moving, have stage 1, 2a, 2b, 3 and 4 reports/letters/presentations, not to mention the endless meetings and emails.
The job ultimately gets to site and we have client advisors breathing down our necks to see if the aggregate used in the concrete mix complies with standards X, Y and Z - or that the mill cert for the rebar used expires halfway through the job and how will we ever deal with that!!!!
Christ Almighty!! Isambard Brunell, Thomas Telford and Ove Arup would be spinning in their graves to see the administrative clerks we have become!
I suffered a 3 hour meeting last week with a baby faced architectural technician telling me how structural elements are to be inspected..
Honestly, this stuff is pushing me closer and closer to the door!
I really hope things are different on your side of the Atlantic..
