DesignDesign: Week 12, Friday, 4pm…
We're pouring Monday
Dave, the site manager, needs 042 for Monday's pour. It isn't published yet.
Dave: Can you just send me the drawing? We're pouring Monday morning.
Stage 4 · Design it · Stop 6 of 7
Authorised and accepted
The back alley's bill so far: 85 weeks · See the bill
The information · Drawing 042, waiting for the go-ahead
Week 13. Site wants to build from me on Monday. Before it can, the lead firm and the client both have to say yes to me.
The wrong way
A photo
Designer Alex has 042 open on his screen, labelled S1.
Alex: It's still being checked. I'll send you a photo from my phone.
DesignDesign: Monday, 7.30am…
Propped on a cone
The gang builds from the photo, propped on a cone. Nobody on site knows the pipe level changed during the checking.
DesignDesign: Three weeks later…
150mm
The Clerk of Works, the client's eyes on site, checks the new pipe.
Clerk: This pipe is 150mm higher than the drawing issued for construction.
Can you prove it?
The photo was on Alex's old phone. It went back last week.
Clerk: Show me what you were given, and who gave it to you.
Dug up
The pipe comes out and goes back in, 150mm lower. The cone is still there. Nobody makes eye contact with it.
One photo on a cone, a pipe 150mm high, and no record of where it came from.
+3 weeks on the back alley's bill: Built from a photo of an unchecked drawing: a pipe dug up and relaid, and no proof of what site was given.