HandoverHandover: The last month…
Somebody asks
Handover is due, and somebody asks for the record of what's been built. Nobody has started it.
Stage 6 · Hand it over · Stop 1 of 6
As-built
The back alley's bill so far: 140 weeks · See the bill
The information · The record of what was built
Now I have to tell the truth about what was actually built, not what was drawn. A stamp can't do that. A tape measure can.
The wrong way
One afternoon
The design drawings get AS BUILT stamped on them. Forty drawings, one afternoon, one stamp.
A question
Rex, the new assistant engineer, has a question for Dave, the site manager.
Rex: Shouldn't somebody check them first?
Dave: They're as built. It says so.
In useIn use: Two years later…
The dig
The maintenance crew digs where the drawing says the manhole is. They find a fence post.
In use
Month seven
Back in month seven, the overflow manhole moved 1.2 metres to dodge a cable nobody knew was there. Agreed with a photo and a thumbs-up. It never reached a drawing.
In use
Under the van
Grace, the client's asset manager, finds the manhole 1.2 metres away, under a parked van.
Crew: The drawing says 'as built'.
Grace: It meant 'as drawn'.
Forty drawings, one stamp, one afternoon. The drawings said "as built". They meant "as drawn".
+2 weeks on the back alley's bill: Design drawings stamped AS BUILT: a manhole that isn't where the record says, and a crew digging in the wrong place.